History of Photography Exam Flashcards
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| Back | Adolf the Superman (1932)John Heartfield"Use photography as a weapon" to challenge images and words. He realized the power of photographs comes not only from their ability to reproduce reality, but also alter reality. With the rise of Hitler and the Nazi party in Germany, Heartfield turned to political satire. His strategy was comic inversion – to make the powerful look ridiculous, to bring the high and might low. As the political climate in Germany got worse, Heartfield turn to humor as the defining earmark of his caricatures. Here we see Heartfield attempting to neutralize Hitler’s considerable oratory powers via a word/image one two punch that will help the viewer to see that the promises of Hitler for Germany were quite hollow and transparent. |
| Tags | political satire |
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| Back | Alamogordo Blues (1986)Patrick Nagatani and Andree Tracey"Alamogordo Blues" was to layer an image with further information in an effort to direct further ironic juxtaposition. Far from being considered as individuals, these men are looked at merely as bodies to be processed. The photograph unreflectively denigrates them by the act of pictorial description, an act which by itself manifests authoritarian control. Fabricating environments for the camera allowed the team to densely pack symbols from popular culture into a controlled situation. Influenced by movie special effects their images contradict our expectations as the outer logic of photographic truth commingles with modern anxieties, allowing an interior landscape to come into view. Employs similar strategies to metaphorically examine the history and social issues surrounding America's nuclear culture and the events that have shaped it, such as the internment (prisonment) of Japanese-Americans during WWII. |
| Tags | Fabrication contradiction issues social wwii |
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| Back | Piss Christ (1987)Andres Serrano Consumption, and mass production. In the end, the government funding for arts “heilms amendment” so called obscene work unless had serious literary artistic political or scientific value. Uncertainty of the future, looking back at traditional values., a bigger picture. Displays a mass produced object such as Jesus on the cross and immersed it into urine. Although it was meant to be seen as consumption, there are religous views tied to the object created by society. |
| Tags | cultural |