Monday, 16 April 2012

30/11

Innocence Lost: the politics of looking
There is no innocent eye

Idealogy- What they want us to see
                What we are not allowed to see- The Beijing Olympics

Karl Marx- Sociologist, has a Marxist view on life
-Althusser

  • Works on a micro scale (only reaching to a small number)
  • Saying whats wrong
  • The norms and values
The Cultural appropriation
  • Robert Maplethorpe
  • Tom Hunter-First photographer to have a stand alone show in the nationla gallery
  • 'Woman Reading a possesion order' 1997
  • Girl reading by ab open window
JUXTAPOSITION- Interpreting something to create critical distance

Campaigning photos
  • Barbara Kruger
  • Peter Kenard- Santas Ghetto 2006
Culture Jamming
Ad-busters  and Green peace
Adverts only mean something when we know original braning and who people are

Marc Quinn- Alison Lapper Pregnant, 2005

Gillian Rose 2001- Visual Methodologies
-The site of production of an image or object

Site of image or object
Site of audience

Our looking is not value free, neutral or objective, but positioned
Our making is positioned (social, historical)
Cultral production involves the power to perpetuate 

  • Susan Sontag 1977- On Photography
  • Lisa Tinckner-Media Images

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