Thursday 4 December 2014

censorship and 'truth'

photographic manipulation

ansel adams- landscape photography- manipulates images in the dark room to render a different representation of scene i.e. seasons, time of day
 

people getting removed from photos- stolin

9/11- photo manipulation used to promote
kate winslet- legs elongated on gq mag - photoshop

robert capa- death of a loyalist soldier 1936

text and image together imply a persuasive belief/opinion/response

SIMULACRUM
image or representation of something/someone:


  • it is a reflection of a basic reality 
  • masked and percerts a basic reality
  • makes the absence of a basic reality
  • bears no relation to any reality whatever 
jean baudrillard the gulf war did not take place 1995 p.40
'it is a masquerade of information:branded faces delivered over the prositution of the image' 

censor: a person to authorise examine films,letter or publication in order to ban or cut anything considered obscene or object able 
to ban or cut portions of )a film, letter or publication)

ethics code of behavious professional or individual 

everybody everywhere wants to modify, transform, embellish enrich and reconstruct the world around him.  

things that have nothing to do with product being advertised= deliberately provocative 

'decoritive models so soeem to increase recognition and recall of the advertisement itself..'

opuim advertisment- 
opium - implies drugs 
sexual exsity 


history of fine art- full of nudes - agnolo bronzino, venus, cupid, folly and time. 145 oil on wood sifulis 

obscenity law
to protect art whilst prohiniity trash
the dividing line between speech and non speech 
the dividing line between proison and freedom  

sally man photographer candy cigarette 1989
making her look a lot more adult
confrontational mood
immediate family -at what point does it stop - who's rights?

tierney gearon 2001 -the use of mask - does it make it more sinister?
upper crust ' art lovers are paying £5 ahead to ogle degrading snaps...' 
nan goldin klara and edda belly dance 1998
richard prince, spiritual america 1983- brook shields-  appeared in mag - her mother had authorised this 'a body with 2 different sexes, maube more, a head that looks like its got 2 different birthdays' gary gross

michele cornoyer - the hat 2000 animation
deals with a woman stripping in strip club
takes it back to a issue in her childhood
disturbing

just how much should e believe the 'truth' represented in the media?
and shouldd we protected from it?
is the manipulation of the truth fair game 

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