The photography as Document

This was a talk about photography and the feeling of the images presented to us through time, we looked at images taken during the great depression. We analysed what they said and what feelings they presented, mainly talking what they were taken for and what people felt towards pictures being taken of them especially during the great depression.

Bandits' Roost, 59 1 2 Mulberry Street by Jacob August Riis

Advertising

Often considered as a tool used by capitalism to change established values within society.

Also considered influential in changing our perception and what we may need and want.

No short term effect specific to product.

Modifies us over a long period of time.

Barbara Kruger - "I shop therefore I am" 1987

Often accused to explore sexism treating people as cultural stereotypes of their sex.

 This lecture was a summary of how people are generally perceived in advertisement through sexism, stereotypes and sometimes racially. Talked about sex selling the advertisement, "Does a naked picture of a women sell ?" this is what we thought about and how it attracts the audience to take an interest in the advertisement and the product being sold through imagery and sometimes text, how effective does it make it and does it give the image any justice.    

Barbara Kruger -
"I shop therefore I am"
1987

Gender

Carolee Schneeman, interior Scroll

A talk about gender and how this factor can be perceived in media, this was mainly focused on women and how they perceived themselves and the stereotypes that come out of it when men develop a depicted image of women but of a negative and sexual sense. We then went on to discover that women also develop themselves in a negative light as they feel it is a strong way of presenting themselves especially coming from them.

Nickolay Lamm - Barbie

This focuses on Barbie as a doll being slim and fine in body, did a reality version to show how  different women in imagination to reality.