HUM 321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Standard Operating Procedure
18 Mar 2016
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Photography = modern way of looking at other people"s pain. Chapter 2: witnessing other people"s pain quintessential modern experience, written account vs. photogenic account, the intentions of photography vs. the interpretation of the viewer. Chapter 3: hand printed photographic images could express false images as they are expressed by the artist who produces the images, photography only shows what the photographer chose to show the public. Media: the media only show what they want society to know, the military censored much of what the media showed to the public. Chapter 5: photography: manipulates memories of individuals: Compare: standard operating procedure: photos alter our memory. Things are more shocking in places we perceive as close/intimate to us. Our gaze shifts throughout the book from anil to sarath to gamini. Representation of political violence: sontag, butler. Why bones , corpses , inscriptions and the hidden . Memory: images of, construction on, interrogation of.
