Ansel Adams
'The camera never lies' - not the truth anymore with photo editing software
- repeats one photograph over and over
- small sized photographs
- does a photograph always show the truth?
- uses negative over and over again - changes exposure when developing to create different outcome.
Documentation photography
- edited photographs to remove individuals even from many years ago.
- it has become more apparent with the development of technology but it started along times ago.
Advertising
- Examples of how digital technology can be used to change the meaning of a photograph - possibly in numerous or ironic ways.
- Magazines and editorial using modern technology to enhance imagery in magazine, which in ways is a lie to the audience.
- Does it matter in instances like this? Kate Winslet has had legs in photo edited to make her legs longer and more attractive to a certain audience.
it becomes more of an important talking point when these images are serious news
- Photo used as propaganda by Robert Capa 1936 ' Death of a loyalist soldier'
- Is this photograph actually showing the death of a soldier or does it just seem that way and we trust the fact that it is because of the title? There is no way of proving this.
- You are encouraged to believe what we are told in relation to the phtograph.
- The Mexican suitcase - Robert Capa had a suitcase that was found with all negatives, which proves the death of the soldier but not in the way that was perceived in the media.
- The caption persuades you to believe what they want you to believe.
- It helps it appeal to your emotion to feel sympathy and support the soldier.
Peter Turnley
- it became a media representation of what war was like.
- Turnley's images actually show the reality of it, featuring on the mass graves and death of the innocent.
- Black and white creates a classical notion, it makes the image a little less real for the viewer, if the images were in colour it would make it alot more real.
- The photograph below by Ken Jarecke was a famous image featured on the front page of many newspapers, these newspapers were told off as this is seen as too 'real' and gruesome for mass media. But on the other hand this is an image which shows the reality of the war and focuses on the truth. Should this be the way of media to not censor reality but instead leave it to the audience to decide if they want to see it or not?
- Raises the question should media photographers have the power to show the entire truth.
An-My Le
Cadburys flake - using sexual references - arguing that each image is perceived in a different way depending on the individual viewing it.
- This sexual reference is implanted in peoples head but then it says more about the person watching it than the advert itself.
- These are examples of how photographs are perceived and what they suggest.
- The image below perhaps suggests angelic white girl and a demonic black child, is this a suggestion or is it just how the viewer perceives it?
Photograph by Stephen Meisel.
- A photograph that is perceived to be a sexual reference and the showing of the nipple caused the most offense which resulted in the advertisement being band.
- This image was then re released in a magazine and because of the change of position it is perceived in a completely different way and even though it is the same photo it is deemed acceptable.
- However if you go into historical art museums there are similar styled art pieces with equal amounts of nudity and sexuality, it is perceived as more acceptable if classed as 'art', even though it is a painting showing nudity and some form of incestuous theme it is still seen as more acceptable in today media due to the fact it is an artistic representation and the accepted fashion of art at the time it was painted.
Balthus
Shows pre pubescent teens in more seductive and sexualised positions even though it can't be proved that it was 100% the intention of the artist.
- The recreation of this painting below onto the Bow Wow Wow album cover features a 15 year old girl on the cover, this was commonly accepted as it was a famous band copying a famous art work but nowadays considering it is a photo of a minor even though nothing too much is shown, it wouldn't even be a suggestion as it is very much frowned upon in today's culture.
Sally Mann
A photographer using her children to make obscene suggestions which can be perceived in different ways.
- This image could possibly be seen with some sexual intent, but as it is her family it is seen as more acceptable, the idea of pedophilia is implanted but it is only because these images were not just kept within her family unit but instead published in books.
Tierney Gearon
Nan Goldin - Another photographer who creates exhibitions from children in arguable positions, using titles to un sexualise an image but in reality these are rather offensive images which are questioned.
This was a recreation of the same photo later on in Brooke Shields life,which still seems unacceptable because it is still a representation of an unaccepted image.
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