Thursday, 4 December 2014

Lecture 10: Censorship and Truth

Censorship

The practice or policy of censoring films, letters, or publications. 


Ansel Adams, aspens. 



He manipulates his photographs in the dark room , to render a different interpretation (different season etc)



Stalin with, and without, Nikolai Yezhov (another example with Trotsky didn't suit his political purpose so was removed from the photographs.



9/11 ironic/anti-capitalist 


Kate Winslet on cover of GQ Magazine, with legs elongated in photoshop.


Robert Capa, Death of a Loyalist Soldier, 1936 (invented persona//vue quote)


Simulacrum
noun
an image or representation of someone or something.
"a small-scale simulacrum of a skyscraper"
an unsatisfactory imitation or substitute.
"a bland simulacrum of American soul music"


Ken Jarecke, Iraqi soldier,1991. Too graphic for the front page of a newspaper

Morals 
Principles of knowing whats right or wrong.

Ethics
moral principles that govern a person's behaviour or the conducting of an activity.
the branch of knowledge that deals with moral principles.


Opium advertisement. Opium emplies drugs, sexual ecstasy. 




agnolo bronzino, venus, cupid,folly and time c 1545, oil on wood

balthus, the golden years, c 1945

therese dreaming, 1938 



lots of sexual connotations. because its a painting does it distance itself from a photograph?

andy earl, bow wow wow cover



The singer for Bow Wow Wow was only 15 years old when this album was released. Lwin’s covered-but-naked body on the album cover, prompted her mother to accuse band manager Malcolm Mclaren of exploiting a minor. Scotland Yard even investigated the case.
the miller test, 1973

3 questions to determine a given work should be labelled obscene.
obscenity law
to protect at whilst prohibting trash 
the dividing line between speech and non speech
the dividing line between prison and freedom

sally mann, candy cigarette, immediate family, 1989



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