Lecture 7.
Censorship and 'Truth'.
- The indexical qualities of photography in rendering truth.
- Photographic manipulation and the documentation of truth.
- Censorship in advertising.
- Censorship in art and photography.
Combine photographs to create something different to what should actually be communicated
Russian revolution of 1917, Images etc were filtered to disguise the truth.
Elliot Aronson.
‘At that time [World War II], I fervently believed just about everything I was exposed to in school and in the media. For example, I knew that all Germans were evil and that all Japanese were sneaky and treacherous, while all white Americans were clean-cut, honest, fair-minded, and trusting.’
Vue magazine death of a soldier.
- It is the reflection of basic reality
- Masks and perverts basic reality.
- It masks the absence of basic reality.
Photographers of the Gulf war controlled by US Government, everything was censored by them.
'The unseen gulf war'.
Ken Jarecke - Iraqi soldier.
English newspapers were criticised for putting such a shocking image on the front page. This image was only too true. But then, do we want what we read in the news and believe to be factual to be controlled by someone else opinion?
No comments:
Post a Comment