ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the events and on the pictures as texts produced within those events. It depends on the biography of the different pictures taken within those events, supported with their semiotic analysis. Events such as military funerals are highly sensitive but, unfortunately, happen often in Israel, and even though the photographer had covered many in the past, they were still tricky assignments. In order to get the perfect picture from this particular funeral, he had to get extremely close to the grieving family and yet keep enough distance to be respectful, not to be too obvious or vulgar, and minimize his already disturbing presence as much as possible. The photographer decided to spike the barrier's and the army base's pictures and focus on the ones from the carrot picking, particularly those containing some sort of movement in them – carrots falling from the vehicle, for instance, as a sign of some 'liveness', as he described it.
