Graphics:
- Subject matter for your client (content)
- Copyright
- Programs used i.e not illegal from Internet
Fashion:
- Fabrics (Fair trade ect)
- Fur
- Size 0 models
- Child labour
- Leather- animal rights
- Health and safety
- environmental issues
Photography:
- Indecent images
- Indecent images of children
- Airbrushing- digital manipulation
- human rights (what is right to show)
- Recorded/involved, what is the role?
- Ethical issues with you being there
- Paparazzi- intrusion
Fine Art:
- Expected to cross boundaries
- Child exploitation?
- Money
- Cultural and historic issues
- "Truth"
With paparazzi there is a very different law to English law
Child labour: Does it matter that you are condoning it by buying the products? Conditions that they are working in are horrific. Brands... Fabrics...
A cradle to the grave design is when a ides materials from the raw start of the design and what happens when the purpose is finished with, has the product been considered about being recycled at the end of its life span? Does the designer care?
Mark Last used plus sized models for a fashion show-This made from page news in the papers. When designers make the clothes they only make sure it fits the audience they want it to fit which is normally no bigger than a UK size 10. The designers normally don't want big people to fit into there designed clothes. When Mark Last told his workers that they would be making clothes for a runway for the plus sized model some people walked out due to there disgust.
When they decided to do test on models and tried to enforce the designers only use models with a healthy BMI there was outrage in Milan and globally. They thought this would destroy the fashion world.
Something Vivien Westwood said about not spending money on clothes for 6months and renewing the clothes they already had.
Nowadays due to chains like Primark its easier to go out and buy more cheap clothes than the actual cost to wash them. This is appalling!!
A gallery put a piece of work on show, this ended the gallery in court. The gallery was in trouble NOT the artist as they gallery set up all the work.. Visitors could press the 'on' button to kill a gold fish swimming in a blender by pressing the 'on' button, several people did, but as the gallery said people could do this it falls down to the gallery. According to the artist its a reflection of what was going on in the world.
Also a dog was tied up a few centimetres away from a bowl of water so couldn't get to the water, the dog died within a few days. The artist was trying to say that no one would normally bat an eyelid if it was a stray dog or a dog that had been hit but people don't want to see it in front of there faces.
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Nestle: Huge outrage over nestle when they announced that substitute breast milk trying exploit the third world countries.
Joseph Stalin: 1940 Alter recorded history in Russia by removing a male who was in fact executed. Ideas of photographs as 'evidence', factual evidence of events, perhaps this is showing that not necessarily what yo use is what you get. Considered to be documents miss representing something. The clarity of the image looks like its been rephotographed. Quality has changed.
Thomas Demand:
His images are on a very large scale. Fictitious, fixing-nothing 'real' there is no actual print on any of the papers ect. But the sense looks too perfect as there is no evidence of living. Everything done is made from cardboard.
The understanding of a photograph is to be stood in front of what you see not a actual construction.
Mariko Mori: Pure Land 1997-8, Representation of Eastern worlds. Futuristic. Not a photograph of reality. Clearly computer generated
In the twp pieces i looked at from Demand and Mori they are both constructed images.
Justin Quinnel: Curious positions, this makes us feel like its been computer generated. However in fact he used pin hole cameras and photographic paper, so in actual fact very old techniques.
Operation Orlan; She didn't manipulate her images she manipulated HERSELF!
She took all the 'beautiful' women and decided which she wanted to have put where. She wanted to physically manipulate herself. UK &Europe surgeons refused to work on her body. Challenging peoples identity, for example we have a name, a face and a set of finger prints. Things like this define us, how we are seen. Orlan changed her name and face, she even tried to get a finger print graphed. Was she chaining everything that gives her an identity? Orlan thinks not.. She thinks that the only thing that defines us as humans is our voice which is why she decided to stay awake through out her operations and was talking. The operations where done with the surgeons waring Paco Rabanne clothing almost like a performance. She thinks our voice is our identity as everyone sounds different and its how we express ourselves.
Benetton: Advertising the way in which it attaches to a brand a bad name. Bright coloured clothing.
David Kirky- Cultural, scare mongering, trying to change public views. Photographing a picture of a aids patient- anger of someone taking a picture of someone of there death bed, a small child watching and a male dieing who looks like Jesus- these elements all caused controversy! What this advertises does to a brand... Brand awareness!
ADBUSTERS:
Sterical, promoting images that through provoking challenging advertising. Draws your attention, playing on the brand.
Robert Flaherty 1922- Nanook of the North, early stages of film. Evidence, Scientific. Film to document life, supposed to show how they lived however it was all constructed due to his wife not being pretty enough for TV, so he had 2 younger prettier women. Built a fake igloo as the camera and equipment couldn't fit. Filmed old methods of hunting, not showing a true perspective. Miss representation of what we see.
Drawing and painting was a way of recording everything before photography. Including peoples own interpretation. A walrus was sent back they had no idea what this was as it was so completely different to the drawing sent back, they couldn't believe the size of it.
OJ Simpson- they made the image look bad by making it black and white, this caused major controversy due to racial groups where as the newspapers reason for doing this was to show a moody look.
Beyonce was changed by Lloriel to look 'like a white girl' which also caused outrage
National Geography magazine:
There font covers are portrait not landscape although the photograph of the Pyramids was taken landscape so obviously they had to cut the image to fit but the simply squashed the images altogether which made the Pyramids out of proportion. This caused a controversy as this sort of thing should not be happening when they are a trusted magazine to show things for what they really are.
Cleaned up images: They do this to make people look 'perfect' this puts pressure on people to want to look like this, they often make womens breats larger. On an image of Beyonce they have made her breasts larger, made her and the background brighter.
This is called HYPER REALITY
This is when you make everything made bigger, brighter and better.
What does it make us see?
Is it accepted to be the norm?
Hoax images of Madonna, what is the original images? How are people now conceived?
Kate Winslet: Sued GQ Magazine, they changed the proportions of her legs to her body. Tried to make her look like her but 'better'
Robert Capa: Staged a war scene. Controversies. Wasn't taken where they said it was originally taken.
Joe Rosenthal, Raising of the American Flag, made the flag bigger, contentions around it. It wasn't actually the first flag there. Heroic image around the American war. The soldiers became like celebrates. Some of the soldiers died but it was covered up as it would cause 'bad press'.
Joel Peter-Witkins: Photographer. He bought dead bodies from poor families to cut up and arrange for him to rephotograph. The Images look Victorian freak show. Huge controversies.
Jeff Wall- Clear its staged, disbelief. Overlaying images.
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