OVER VIEW
- notations of censorship and truth
- the indecical qualities of photographys in rendering truth
- photographic manipulation and the documentation of truth
- censorship in advertising
- censorship in art and photography.
PHOTOGRAPHy - captutures a scene - but it can be made to lie either through the picture or through the photographer.
There is more truth in something like this than a digital photo however manipulation is not new.
Discussing - is this picture actually hurting anyone - this is an example of digital manipulation
Made her slimmer - today this is not news - but then this cauesd a scandal - notions of truth - is it actually affecting anyone. This picture is meant to be intising but it isnt actually hurting anyone
2 images put together to portray a truth. Various examples of something like this with war journalists. They are documenting the reality of something that is going on. This is the truth but some pictures have more manipulation etc to make it look more dramatic e.g. explosions. You can see in this photo that they is smoke from an explosion in the background. Is this less frivilous than the photo of kate winslet
During the Spanish civil war. Is this actually an authentic image of a man being shot in battle. Does it really matter if he is or isnt but more about what happens in war. He is wearing a scull cap thing - people thought that this was the exit of the bullet form his head but upon closer look it was just a protective hat. In the spannish war they take a siesta - agree not to shoot each other but one side weren't truthful and this was an image of the moment of attack. Is it enigmatic of death or is it actually death.
This is one of the few images or reality from the war.
he wrote about how the war did happen - very graphic imagery, very disturbing but are these things that we should be shown so that we know what it is really like. With the gulf war - these things weren't being shown to the public - black and white - almost more arty - if you were to add colour would it add more realism to the photography.
Shows a guy at the steering wheel of truch at the time he was fire bombed. This picture did make it to the media - but people still thought that it was too graphic - also because it was taken in colour - does it make it more real. What does it say about us a public if we cant see these things - our taxes are going to the war - should we be shown what our money is being put towards.
He taks about how people have a right to see them - but in reality do we actually want to be shown them
An extract from the book
Fine art phtoographer who is documenting these war events.
Is this the aircraft carriers experience of reaily. Is this what we should be seeing as news or is this more about the grim reality os what goes on.
obscene / objectory
What is our morla code as society and what we accept when we see it.
If one person looks at an advert and thinks one thing and one person says another - where do we stand - is it indicative of that persons thought
If one person is thinking of what it represents or is much ore - and will this be a problem. This isnt just an issue that you see advertising.
Adverts that have aimed to show - in their own way these images have become iconic.
The child's picture - the angel faces white girl and the devil horned black girl - looks at the issue of race and sexuality.
14 year old girl on the cover of an album - now this wouldn't have been accepted. Her mother tried to stop it. You wouldn't have been able to tell that she was 14 by her physicque.
She takes photos of her own family. She is holding a candy cigarette but is it trying to provoke the image of a child acting as a young women
Is it depicting it so that they will be harmed - more sexualised. A slightly different exploitation of how you would photograph your own children - do the children have the right to say
American phtoographer who produced this series of her children in masks.
Charles saatchi brought them - they were then placed in an exhibition - this is not normal of how naked photographs taken by parents are used.
Reference to the gaze lecture
Could be a study directed at the gaze - but she doesnt have any formal phtographic training / experience.
The gaze - the boy behind is staring at the child.
where is the line between obscenity and fine art.
Supposatly just a photograph of two children playing - but this was investigated and the photograph was removed from the exhibtion. IS this how children normally play or is this more obscene.
Shocking - photograph taken for a publication called 'sugar and spice' which was similar to playboy. THis was published in the magazine. Looking at have the spiritual side of america gone down the train because they would and could publish a photograph like this in a cheap magazine
When she was older she found out and was horrified that her mother had sold images of her about that. So she tried to address the balance - her way of responding to the face that her mother sold a child photo of her to a porno magazine was to take another photo of her infront of a motobike in a bikini - is this sad?
