- Notions of censorship and truth
- The indexical qualities of photography in rendering truth
- Photographic manipulation and the documentation of truth
- Censorship in advertisements
- Censorship in art and photography
The notion of rendering truth
- Ansel Adams, Moonrise Hernandes New Mexico, c. 1941-2
- Ansel Adams, Moon over Half Dome, 1960
- Ansel Adams, Aspens - Dark room manipulation
Communist Russia, Pravda a Russian Newspaper
- One sided truth
- One side that the government wants you to see
- Removal of photographs in history
Rise of digital photography
- More common for photographs to be manipulated
- Kate Winslet on the cover of GQ Magazine, with legs elongated in photoshop - Is the representation off truth a important factor? Can You manipulate to sell?
- Can combine two photographs to change the message it is communicating
Robert Capa, Death of a Loyalist Soldier, 1936
- Robert Capa is a pseudonym
- Built up a mystique of the photographer
- Is it set up?
Jean Baudrillard - Successive Phases of a image
- It it a reflection of a basic reality
- It masks and perverts a basic reality
- It makes the absence of a basic reality
- It bears no relation to any reality whatsoever
Peter Turnley, The Unseen Gulf War, 2002
- There was a censorship in the first gulf war
- Photographers in the first gulf war were controlled by the US forces and had restrictions on what they could photograph and represent
- Get away from 'simulated war' which is like a media event
Ken Jarecke, Iraqi Soldier, 1991
- One of the first truly shocking image captured in colour and put on the front on news papers
- Many news papers were criticised
- Image is almost 'too true'
Do you want an accurate representation of truth with all the gruesome details?
An-My Le, Small Wars
- Hiding the reality of war?
- Creating art through images of carnage and destruction
Censorship
- To ban or cut portions of (a film, letter or publication)
Morals
- Principles of behaviour
Ethics
- A code of behaviour
Cadbury Flake adverts
- Sexual ambiguity - says more about the individual and their mindset?
Oliviero Toscani, United Colours of Benetton adverts, 1992
- Shocking images relating to racism and religion
- Does getting a advert banned create as much publicity and a advert which is not?
Opium advertisemnt, Stephen Meisel, 2000
- Most complained about adverts in the past five years (2001)
- Sexualised image
- Banned as a landscape image, acceptable as a portrait image
The Miller Test, 1973
- Asks three questions to determine if a piece of work is seen as obscene
- Whether 'the average person, applying contemporary community standards'
Obscenity Law
- To protect art whilst prohibiting trash'
- The dividing line between speech and non-speech
- The dividing line between prison and freedom
Sally Mann
- Candy Cigarette, 1989
- Immediate Family, 1984-92
- Is it damaging to the children?
Tierney Gearon, untitled 2001
- Gallery was shut down whilst police investigated the photos of the children
- News Of The World - Upper crust art lovers are paying £5 a head to ogle degrading snaps of children plastered across the walls of Britain's art galleries
Nan Goldin, Klara and Edda Belly-Dancing, 1998
Richard Prince, Spiritual America, 1983 (after Garry Gross)
Richard Prince, Spiritual America IV, 2005
Final Thoughts
- Just how much should you believe the 'truth' represented in the media?
- And should we be protected from it?
- Is the manipulation of the truth fair game in a capitalist consumer society?
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