Introduction: Jill Greenberg is a photographer known for her work predominately in portraits. She has been a photographer for over 30 years. Photographs of hers have been featured in “Newsweek, Fast Company, Wired, Entertainment Weekly, Time, and other publications” (4). Jill Greenberg has been criticized for certain portraits she has taken expressing certain views and sometimes, without permission, from individuals. She is known for the controversy surrounding her “End Times” and photographs of John McCain. I have seen no wrong in expressing her political views through her portraits; however, I see a problem with expressing these views without the permission of her subject. This violates our rights and the views she imposes on her subject may not be the views of the subject. Body: Jill Greenberg landed herself in the middle of controversy when she released her photo series, “End Times.” “End Times” features toddlers bawling their eyes out. The children featured in the series were …show more content…
“Jill was hired by The Atlantic to take a portrait of Republican presidential candidate John McCain…” (5). Jill then took several photographs of McCain, without him knowing that Jill was capturing his photo. She then took these images and altered them, with the use of Photoshop, and posted them to her personal website. One of the photos she altered showed a monkey defecating on McCain’s head. Another photo was edited to make McCain look like a vampire; while he was licking his blood covered lips and had the title “I am a bloodthirsty warmongerer” (5). The photographs she captured are distasteful and unprofessional. Jill was hired by The Atlantic to take a portrait of John McCain but ended up using some of these photographs for her own personal political statements. I find this unethical for McCain was an unaware of what Jill had
The political cartoon “It’s Okay--Were Hunting Communists”manages to sum up the events and political chaos of "The Red Scare"(751, Government and Law). Specifically, the artist is able to mock President Harry Truman, Senator Joseph McCarthy, and The Committee of Unamerican Activities(HUAC). The artist use of facial expression and symbolism paints a picture for the audience, and their feelings towards these issues. The use of this political cartoon also take historical events, and helps to illustrate the meaning and consequences of these events.
Her freedom of speech is dangerous during this time period, and the ideas she write will have considerable backlash from the United States, especially from those without the same views. She didn’t want to offend her readers and wants to build a movement out of honesty. With a cautious tone, she will speak true to her own words as “it is neither to be denied nor concealed” and hold herself “to be responsible for [her] remark.” Cary upholds her integrity in order to make her audience, not just her people, to see her cause with benevolence and truly meant for morality of human beings. Everything she voices in her newspaper, she will stay true to and won’t deny the fact for her actions, which makes her more credible to people outside of her audience range. Her honesty makes her movement appear less ambiguous of the choices and feelings she stands by, and it makes a genuine connection for other people to build sympathy for her
In doing so, she became relatable to the reader while still remaining professional and maintaining her credibility. She also included countless statistics and facts, showing the reader that the problem isn’t just an individual issue, but a real social problem. Next, Alexander triggered an emotional response in the reader, making them feel for the persecuted individuals, and driving the reader to promote change. She finished the article off with a call to action, inspiring all individuals to be a part of a “broad based social movement” (Alexander, 25), so we can someday “acknowledge the humanity and dignity of all humans.” (Alexander, 26) In doing so, she tied together an eye-opening article, and gave the audience a glimmer of hope for our nation’s
The political side which emerges from the use of humor, irony, and attack against an unqualified and unskilled art community, particularly in the context of contemporary politics. The picture makes fun of the arrogance and presumption of the art critics as the author wants to show that art analysts cannot determine and judge the beauty, aesthetic, and meaning of a picture without the opinion of the cow.
An image has the explicit power of telling a story without saying any words, that’s the power behind a photo. A photo tends to comes with many sides to a story, it has the ability to manipulate and tell something differently. There is a tendency in America, where explicit photos of war or anything gruesome occurring in the world are censored for the public view. This censorship hides the reality of our world. In “The War Photo No One Would Publish” Torie DeGhett centers her argument on censorship, detailing the account of graphic Gulf War photo the American press refused to publish. (73) DeGhett argues that the American public shouldn’t be restrained from viewing graphic content of the war occurring around the world. She believes that incomplete
Unbeknownst to many students in my generation, mounting hostility towards public arts funding also marked the cultural and political climate of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Debates had escalated over a number of National Endowment for the Arts grants, targeted at artists who violated sexual and cultural norms in their art, whether it was in painting, oral performance, writing, or photography. Most famous of these NEA outlaws was gay photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, whose photographs became the center of a national debate over the function of art, who should fund it, what is considered obscene and, as Laurie Anderson states, “the issue of control…and who controls what.
Pictures cannot be reenacted; therefore, this is why photographs are noteworthy. This statement rings valid; many people, including Nora Ephron, agree with it. Moreover, Ephron writes a final essay called “The Boston Photographs”, and she references an occurrence where a woman deceased. The photographs of her and her child falling are visible in news articles. People believe that these pictures were too private. Nevertheless, Ephron believes that newspapers should not censor obscenities from the public because they represent certain issues. A comparable theme of death appears in a recent photograph of the blood-spattered death of many Syrian inhabitants by the air strikes of the Syrian government.
First, the scene in the image was manipulated through stage-managing, a common practice in photojournalism. While the image of the migrant mother, Florence Thompson, appears to the viewer to be a genuine and unprompted look at the hardship and deprivation of a dejected migrant woman. This, of course, was the reality of Ms. Thompson’s personal situation at the time. But the scene itself was micromanaged to appear in a lucid and vivid form in the image, including editing Ms. Thompson’s older children from the image to create the more poignant scene of a mother holding a small child and using a pose in which the woman is looking out into the distance, with the two children told to lo...
The Cindy Herbig case revolves around the distinguished Herbig family from Missoula, Montana. The Herbig’s daughter Cindy, who did well enough in high school to obtain a scholarship to Radcliffe College, was killed in Washington D.C. while working as a prostitute. The controversy of this case comes from the way that the Missoulian and the Post reported on this story. Both newspapers were aware of the family’s status and the damage that this story would do to the family’s name. Also they were asked by the family’s lawyer to not publish the story out of respect for Cindy and her grieving family. Despite this formal request both papers published the story. The Post published this story because they believed that it would both bring attention to the problem of prostitution in the D.C. area and their primary business concerns. The Missoulian published a heavily toned down version of this story because of the journalism community. The main editor of this paper stated that journalists will always have to release stories when they are newsworthy even if they are negative stories. These facts of the Cindy Herbig case will allow us to review the ethics of this case for both news sources.
Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” George Schuyler was a journalist who didn’t fear writing about controversy; he was a man who embraced it. Schuyler was known to give a fresh and sincere view on topics during a time when freedom of speech was most vulnerable. Although many embraced his conservative outlook on topics, his peers often scrutinized him for this very same trait. On March 18 1944, Schuyler wrote an article in the Pittsburgh Courier condemning the government for pressing charges on Lawrence Dennis and others for violating the Smith Act of 1940. This page long editorial helped arouse a nationwide debate as to whether or not the government was acting within its rights when indicting individuals who expressed their ideas and opinions about Communism and/or Fascism. Articles from the New York Times, the Washington Post, and a plethora of renowned journals continued this debate for decades to come.
The documentary is about Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist, credited for the invention of the atomic bomb. The atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Oppenheimer used to not be politically active until the war. He is known to be a left wing while his family members joined the communist. He is a jew and also has a lot of European friends living where the Nazis are. It is interesting to see how people think Oppenheimer’s political actions would influence him to work on the atomic bomb. I think the film suggested that he got involved more because of the politics rather than the knowledge or the practice of science. Oppenheimer was seen as a genius. He wanted to help save the western civilization, and thought the only way was to use physics by joining the Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer then became the leader of scientists for this research at Berkley. Robert was told to convince scientists, traveling under a sealed name, to help in a secret project at a secret place in New Mexico. It was also interesting to see that most of the scientists were men and young graduate students they taught. One quote from the film that I remembered was “Oppenheimer sold his soul for knowledge” because he
Newton, Julianne H. The Burden of Visual Truth: The Role of Photojournalism in Mediating Reality. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001. Print.
Since the beginning of civilisation the question can art have the capacity to transform the world politically and morally has invariably haunted the philosophers and social scientists alike. This paper makes an attempt to address two different but interrelated questions in the light of photography by primarily focusing on Abu Ghraib pictures. First, I intend to look critically at Butler’s claim that framing of reality in a certain way imposes constraints on what can be heard, seen and read during the times of war. And second, I propose to consider the various ways in which the relationship between photography and ethical responsiveness can be explored by invoking the idea of face propounded by Levinas in one of his interviews.
Matthew 24:13 -14 but he that shall endure to the end the same shall be saved and this Gospel shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations, and then shall the end come