No other presidential election cycle has matched this year in terms of visual propaganda and paraphernalia.
The use of political images can shape not only elections but an entire cultural sensibility.
For analysis, Farai Chideya speaks with two experts on the subject: Deborah Willis — professor of photography and imaging at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts — and Steven Seidman, chair of the Department of Strategic Communication at Ithaca College in New York.
Watch our video, "From Hope to Hero: Political Art In Election 2008."
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