Notions of censorship and truth
indexical qualities of photography in rendering truth
photographic manipulation and documentation of truth
censorship in advertising
censorship in art and photography
Ansel adams, moonrise hermandes, new mexico 1914 - 2
Photography captures something that is going on
classic landscape - what is actually the truth
digital photography and manipulation - improve the image and the way you look at it
film photography - the original - no manipulation
digital - code - not physical - dont have the image.
Manipulation isn't new. Adams wrote about skills in photography - skills in printing
Is the magic in the photo or the actual printing?
Adams, moon over half dome, 1960
Adams, aspens. made countless reproductions using the same negative - could alter the effect in each reproduction. deliberate. suggest they were different images, from same negative.
Age of propaganda the everyday use and abuse of persuasion.
IMAGE. QUOTE.
Stalin with and without, Nikolai Yezhov
IMAGE.
Cant always accept that there is truth in photography
Stalin with and without Trotsky
IMAGE
What is published to us isn't always the truth. Politics - media, only want you to see what they want.
9/11
Manipulation.
Morals and ethics in advertising.
Internet - mass exposure. availability of programs and how easy they are to use.
Kate Winslet GQ mag. Legs elongated in photoshop.
Scandal. is it really effecting anyone?
Images put together.
Gulf war IMAGE.
Robert capa, death of a loyalist soldier 1936
spanish civil war.
Is it the truth? IMAGE
does it matter whether it's actually true?
QUOTE
Elliot Aronson
Captions with the photograph - does a photo speak for itself or does the caption make you think differently. Emotive. Makes you think in a certain way.
Manipulative advertising 1984. Tom L Beauchamp.
Subjective way - appealing to your emotions.
The unseen Gulf Way
Peter Turnley
Jean Baudrillard - Simulacra and simulations 1981
selected writings.
is it the reflection of a basic reality
it masks and prevents a basic reality
it masks the absence of a basic reality
it bears no relation to any reality whatever.
Peter Turnley
digital artist - role of the journalist
work on the internet can be exposed to so many people
QUOTE
Capturing the reality of the situation
making a judgement for your self and not by someone else
Mile of death
Jean Baudrillard - the gulf war did not take place
simulation of what a war is like - made for media - in the west
de-intensified state of war
Turnley - showing a reality of war
Black and white photography considered to be art.
Carbonised. made it on the front cover of many newspaper. - then said it was too graphic. do we need to see it? What does it say about us a public? that we don't want to see it.
War made into a media event rather than reality.
An-My Le, small wars
fine art photographer documenting war
themed exhibitions
arty representation of war - is there a place for it? or is turnley's work more valid? what does her work actually represent.
represents one persons reality?
Censorship
the practice or policy of censoring films, letters or publications.
Morals.
principles of behaviour.
The morality of advertising - 1970 theodore Levitt
everyone wants to modify transform embelish enrich and reconstruct the world around him
Cadbury flake 1969
QUOTE
says more about the observer than the picture
Cook G. The discourse of advertising
Oliviero Toscani, united colours of Benetton advert 1992
Advertising standards authority
Stephen Meisel 2000 Opium adverts
Amy Adler - the folly of defining serious art
NYU.
The miller test 1973
when is art, art and when is it obscene.
Obscenity Law
Sally Mann, cigarette 1989.
work revolves around her family
Immediate family 1984-92
Tierney Gearon - untitled 2001
News of the world quote.
Quote - Guardian 2001
Nan Goldin Kiara and edda belly dancing 1998
- just how much should we believe the truth in represented media
and should we we be protected from it
is the manipulation of the truth fair game in a capitalist consumer society
should art sit outside censorship laws exercised in other disciplined
who should be protected? artist, viewer or subject
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The rationale for censorship is different for various types of information censored:
- Moral censorship is the removal of materials that are obscene or otherwise considered morally questionable. Pornography, for example, is often censored under this rationale, especially child pornography, which is illegal and censored in most jurisdictions in the world.
- Military censorship is the process of keeping military intelligence and tactics confidential and away from the enemy. This is used to counter espionage, which is the process of gleaning military information.
- Political censorship occurs when governments hold back information from their citizens. This is often done to exert control over the populace and prevent free expression that might foment rebellion.
- Religious censorship is the means by which any material considered objectionable by a certain faith is removed. This often involves a dominant religion forcing limitations on less prevalent ones. Alternatively, one religion may shun the works of another when they believe the content is not appropriate for their faith.
- Corporate censorship is the process by which editors in corporate media outlets intervene to disrupt the publishing of information that portrays their business or business partners in a negative light, or intervene to prevent alternate offers from reaching public exposure
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship
http://gilc.org/speech/osistudy/censorship/
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