Not a particularly smart or tasteful stunt, but a reminder of what managers have to put up with these days, and a slick, if sick, image to conjure the living hell of Moyes's final few games at Manchester United.
"There's a long history of people who are sick making images of themselves to make sense of their experiences," said Professor Susan Bell, a sociologist who teaches illness narratives at Bowdoin College and argues that trauma selfies may be more closely related to the pathology self-portraits of artists like Jo Spence or Frida Kahlo than their oversharing coevals.
She is unforgettable, as is The Sick Child, an image Munch reworked repeatedly, in both paintings and lithographs.
Phil Collins does not wear chunky-knit sweaters and he is sick of his image as the bald and wizened millionaire gnome of Soppy Pop.
Those sickening images of sick – they, too, were a wave of nausea that coursed around the earth.
The other two interventions fared even worse: the images of sick children increased the belief that vaccines cause autism, while the dramatic narrative somehow managed to increase beliefs about the dangers of vaccines.
Photographing her in depravity, showing her scoring, suffering, sick, and high, making images that are so valued in a certain tradition of documentary photography, seemed all wrong to me.
A few years after he painted the work you can see on this page, he created an entire series of curiously washed-out faces based on photographic images of sick patients.
Undercover videos showing grainy, sometimes shocking images of sick or injured livestock have become a favorite tool of animal rights organizations to expose what they consider illegal or inhumane treatment of animals.
