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John Berger's book "Ways of Seeing" critiques traditional art history and analyses visual culture from a Marxist perspective. It challenges the elitism of European oil painting by examining how images are used and interpreted in relation to contemporary media and advertising. Berger argues that photography and other forms of mechanical reproduction have changed how art is experienced and appreciated. The meaning of photographs is shaped not just by what is depicted but also by the context in which images are presented and the assumptions and beliefs of viewers.

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Representation, Seeing, Photography
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HELP SAVE OUR NATIONAL PARKS. protect our natural heritage so that future generations can appreciate such views as the two above.
These are just two of the views which you can experience from your new home in Rustic Mountain Acres! Call 1-800-MNT-VIEW! Lots are limited and going fast! Call NOW!
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Moon and Half Cathedral Rock and Spires Dome Ansel Adams Ansel Adams
John Berger Ways of Seeing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnfB-pUm3eI
Challenge traditional art historian. (political, marxist) Broad analysis of visual culture without privileging fine art. Critiques the elitism of European oil painting, analysing it in relation to contemporary media and advertising Reflects concerns in contemporary art world: - commercialism Vs true purpose of art - manipulative nature of mass media and consumer culture
indebted to Walter Benjamins THE WORK OF ART IN THE AGE OF MECHANICAL REPRODUCTION 1936
Realism? Accuracy? visualdata the object There are limits to objectivity yes, even when a machine eye is used: Light (i.e. color etc.) depends on position of photographer and camera in relation to the object no two photographs of the object taken from different places can record exactly the same distribution of light (colors) of the object photographed. They can be very similar, but never the same. angles, distance, etc., too, will always be different. Other factors: film used, lens, filters, etc.
What is the relation between text and image? Terry Barrett (American critic): The texts that surround the photograph eliminate any residual ambiguity and decide the meaning of the picture. What other factors changes the meaning of the photograph? Its presentational environment T. Barrett. Is this good or bad?
This is a horrifying scene of the Vietnam war. A naked girl crying, running and screaming towards the camera with soldiers marching behind her and other children victims. It is haunting and the despair it instill is enormous. This image shocked the world that reviews the war.
This is the winning photography of the Tsunami reports in the world. It tell of a woman whose job was to bury the dead. She was devastated by the many corpses around her and she broke down to plead with heaven in prayer.
Susan Sontag: The aestheticizing tendency of photography is such that the medium which conveys distress ends by neutralizing it. Cameras miniaturize experience, transform history into spectacle. As much as they create sympathy, photographs cut sympathy, distance the emotions.
So are photographs mirrors of or windows onto reality? there is a photographer behind every photograph Nelson Goodman on the artists eye: [he/she] selects, rejects, organizes, discriminates, associa tes, classifies, analyzes, and constructs. It does not so much mirror as take and make, and what it takes and makes it sees not bare, as items without attribution, but as things. Nothing is seen naked.
Relationship between words and pictures. How do what we know and what we believe affect the way we see art? How do our assumptions about art/pictures/images affect the way we see it? How does art/picture/images become mystified? Who are the legitimate purveyors of the meaning of art/a picture/image? etc.

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  • 3. HELP SAVE OUR NATIONAL PARKS. protect our natural heritage so that future generations can appreciate such views as the two above.
  • 4. These are just two of the views which you can experience from your new home in Rustic Mountain Acres! Call 1-800-MNT-VIEW! Lots are limited and going fast! Call NOW!
  • 6. Moon and Half Cathedral Rock and Spires Dome Ansel Adams Ansel Adams
  • 7. John Berger Ways of Seeing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnfB-pUm3eI
  • 8. Challenge traditional art historian. (political, marxist) Broad analysis of visual culture without privileging fine art. Critiques the elitism of European oil painting, analysing it in relation to contemporary media and advertising Reflects concerns in contemporary art world: - commercialism Vs true purpose of art - manipulative nature of mass media and consumer culture
  • 9. indebted to Walter Benjamins THE WORK OF ART IN THE AGE OF MECHANICAL REPRODUCTION 1936
  • 10. Realism? Accuracy? visualdata the object There are limits to objectivity yes, even when a machine eye is used: Light (i.e. color etc.) depends on position of photographer and camera in relation to the object no two photographs of the object taken from different places can record exactly the same distribution of light (colors) of the object photographed. They can be very similar, but never the same. angles, distance, etc., too, will always be different. Other factors: film used, lens, filters, etc.
  • 11. What is the relation between text and image? Terry Barrett (American critic): The texts that surround the photograph eliminate any residual ambiguity and decide the meaning of the picture. What other factors changes the meaning of the photograph? Its presentational environment T. Barrett. Is this good or bad?
  • 12. This is a horrifying scene of the Vietnam war. A naked girl crying, running and screaming towards the camera with soldiers marching behind her and other children victims. It is haunting and the despair it instill is enormous. This image shocked the world that reviews the war.
  • 13. This is the winning photography of the Tsunami reports in the world. It tell of a woman whose job was to bury the dead. She was devastated by the many corpses around her and she broke down to plead with heaven in prayer.
  • 14. Susan Sontag: The aestheticizing tendency of photography is such that the medium which conveys distress ends by neutralizing it. Cameras miniaturize experience, transform history into spectacle. As much as they create sympathy, photographs cut sympathy, distance the emotions.
  • 15. So are photographs mirrors of or windows onto reality? there is a photographer behind every photograph Nelson Goodman on the artists eye: [he/she] selects, rejects, organizes, discriminates, associa tes, classifies, analyzes, and constructs. It does not so much mirror as take and make, and what it takes and makes it sees not bare, as items without attribution, but as things. Nothing is seen naked.
  • 16. Relationship between words and pictures. How do what we know and what we believe affect the way we see art? How do our assumptions about art/pictures/images affect the way we see it? How does art/picture/images become mystified? Who are the legitimate purveyors of the meaning of art/a picture/image? etc.