-Quality of photograph in rendering truth
-Photographic manipulation
-Censorship of advertising
-Censorship in art & photography
Ansel Adams
Moonrise Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941-42
A given that photographs can be 'improved' be commonly used photographic manipulation.
-software etc
- Digital photography is code that 'exists'
Moon over half dome, 1960
Countless reproductions using different exposures and darkroom techniques to alter their effect.
Manipulation in photography isn't new...
Stalin & Nikolai Yezhov
- Manipulated image in Pravda
Newspaper doctored the news
They censor the news and manipulate it to give you the story they think you should read.
Kate Winslet on GQ Magazine
Making her legs slightly longer...
Images put together in order to sell a story
pictures from Iraq etc.
Viewing allied soldiers in a dim view.
Robert Capa
Death of a loyalist soldier, 1936
Is it real? does it matter?
Up for discussion for a long time. Proved he probably is quite dead.
Also the truth of images can be coloured by the caption they are put with > emotive
Manipulative advertising, 1984
Is it rational or is it suggestive of what people want you to see
Simulacrum - phases of image.
- reflection of a basic reality
- Jean Baudrillard
Peter Turnley
- The unseen Gulf War
photographs documenting the Gulf War
The photos however were approved by the U.S army, so the images are not exactly showing the truth
His book offers all the unpublished images so people had their own opinions and could see what really happened.
Jean Baudrillard - The Gulf War did not take place (1996)
Making the point that it was a war that took place as a simulation of other wars.
- manipulated representation of war
- Strategized media event
Turnley tries to show that it was a real war - taking place - people dying.
Black & white
- 'arty' - colour as opposed to black and white making it more real?
Peter Turnley 1991
Backlash to an image that was very graphic - what does it say about society that we can't see images like it, of real things that are taking place.
Contrived representation of reality.
An-My-Lee - Small Wars
- Fine art photographer turned to capturing war
is there a place for this style of photography or is Turnley's more valid?
"landscape photograph with some tanks in it"
Censorship
- The practice or policy of censoring films, letters or publications
- Obscene - objectionable
- Standards of right and wrong
Theodore Levitt
- The morality of Advertising, 1970
Cadbury's Flake advertising 1969
- orgasmic situations
- 'Inserting' a chocolate bar into her mouth
says more about the viewer than it does about the images themselves.
Oliviero Toscani, United Colours of Benetton, 1992
- Photographer building a career off adverts meant to shock
Cook.G - The Discourse of Advertising
" No such thing as bad publicity"
Balthus, the Golden Years
Does the fact that it's a painting make it acceptable to be graphic?
Bow wow wow record cover
Contains image representative of a painting, however one girl in the band was 14 yet the cover was still released.
Amy Adler - The Folly of defining 'serious' art
- The Miller Test. 1973.
When art starts to become too graphic.
obsenity law.
Sally Mann - Candy Cigarette, 1989
A mother who photographs her children and publishes them.
Should a mother be showing images like this, and what is going on in the images.
Immediate Family, 1984-92
Should she do this or is it different because they are her own children. Family photos...
'A REVOLTING EXHIBITION OF PERVERSION UNDER THE GUISE OF ART '
News of The World
Richard Prince - Spiritual America, 2005
What should we believe? should we be protected from it?
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