Photography and Privacy

Facebook pictures, up for grabs!
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/facebook-flaw-allows-access-to-private-photos/64761
http://imgur.com/a/PrLrB


Does that influence the kind of images you would share?

Pepper Spraying Police Officer Parodies

This is similar to the Iran missile thing that was in Oliver Leric's video that we watched in class, you can see a wide variety of parodies here and here.


What do you guys think of these? Lighthearted fun? Dark and misguided reaction to a serious event? 

Tacita Dean's "FILM"

An work by artist Tacita Dean at The Tate in London that is related to the current assignment. The Tate describes it:
FILM is an 11-minute silent 35mm film projected onto a gigantic white monolith standing 13 metres tall at the end of a darkened Turbine Hall. It is the first work in The Unilever Series devoted to the moving image, and celebrates the masterful techniques of analogue film-making as opposed to digital. The work evokes the monumental mysterious black monolith from the classic science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey. The film feels like a surreal visual poem, including images from the natural world among others, with the epic wall of the Turbine Hall showing through, in a montage of black and white, colour, and hand-tinted film.

There is also a profile of Dean in The New Yorker's Oct 31ist issue, unfortunately you need to be a subscriber to read it....maybe you are?http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/10/31/111031fa_fact_eakin

Contemporary Photography

An interesting article in the British magazine Frieze about the state of contemporary photography that mentions Lucas, who lectured in class.

Assignment #3

Here are some artists to look at for Assignment #3. Feel free to post questions/comments.

Michele Abeles

Specific Things

Gil Blank

Elad Lassry

Peter Piller

Joachim Schmid

Lucas Blalock

Natalie Czech

Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky

Nils Klinger

Michael Huey

Roy Arden 

Christopher Williams

Paula Muhr

Aneta Grzeszykowska

Josh Azzarella 
Penelope Umbrico

Here is Oliver Laric's website, he made the short video called Versions that we watched.

House of David's Estate Sale

Highly recommended! This weekend.......




http://la.curbed.com/archives/2011/09/you_can_buy_a_david_at_the_house_of_davids_estate_sale.php

Pictures of Qaddafi, ethical?

The former leader of Libya Muammar el-Qaddafi was killed recently, very graphic pictures and videos of his dead body have been circulating on the internet. You can some of these images below but be warned they are intense and potentially disturbing. You are not required to look at this material.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2011/oct/20/gaddafi-removed-truck-alive-video


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEPnIKI3Ivg&feature=youtu.be&t=41s&skipcontrinter=1


What are your thoughts on the politics on this kind of thing? Do you think it's ok for images of this kind of to be seen? Is it necessary? Should all victims of violence have images of their bodies kept out of circulation? Is this an issue of privacy? Free speech? 


Leave your thoughts in the comments section below (this will help your participation grade).