ARTH 354 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: True Crime, Leica Camera, Picture Snatcher

• School: McGill University
• Department: Art History & Communications
• Course: ARTH 354
• Professor: William O Straw

Document Summary

Black dhalia case (continued: 2003: steve hodel (retired lapd detective) wrote a book claiming his father was the murderer. Found photos of elizabeth shorts in fathers possessions: 2 ideas, 1) body arranged to look like famous photographs (see slide for specific examples, 2) exquisite corpse game (surrealist game*). Elizabeth short: prostitute sex worker, symbolic of degraded popular culture, sacrifice vs. male artist trying to establish his supremacy. Tabloid crime journalism: problem of belatedness (arriving after the crime, weegee: famous for having a police radio in his car. Pu(cid:271)li(cid:272) should see consequences of the death penalty: li(cid:271)e(cid:396)als: those (cid:449)ho sa(cid:455) (cid:862)(cid:374)o(cid:863) to sho(cid:449)i(cid:374)g i(cid:373)age. Do (cid:374)ot ag(cid:396)ee (cid:449)ith the death penalty and therefore should not turn it into a spectacle: co(cid:374)se(cid:396)(cid:448)ati(cid:448)es: those (cid:449)ho sa(cid:455) (cid:862)(cid:455)es(cid:863). It (cid:449)ill a(cid:272)t as a dete(cid:396)(cid:396)e(cid:374)t if people see it: co(cid:374)se(cid:396)(cid:448)ati(cid:448)es: those (cid:449)ho sa(cid:455) (cid:862)(cid:374)o(cid:863). (cid:272)a(cid:374) (cid:271)e used (cid:271)(cid:455) those (cid:449)ho (cid:449)ish to (cid:272)(cid:396)eate sympathy for the criminal.