




Annie Lebiovitz “Life through a Lens – 2006” DVD
- She captures the essence and inner should of someone which is only shown in a split second
- Has done shots for famous people, family, nature





Annie Lebiovitz “Life through a Lens – 2006” DVD
Sight
Trust
Power – power play – vulnerability, flirting, playing
games
Uncomfortable vs Comfortable – interior
Communication
How do you want people to look at you
in the future?
Respect and admiration
Having the power to get people look at you is sign
ificant.
Exchanging looks – meeting at cafĂ©, class, meetings
, negative or during traffic lights.
We are always looking to be influence.
Looking is power, power is money
Looking is imperative to politician – gain trust, during speech to convey message.
Weegee (Arthur Felig)
June 12, 1899 – Dec 26, 1968
Gained nickname “Weegee” because he always suddenly appeared at news places/scenes.
“Their first murder” – Before 1925
Shows of peoples faces when murder occurs
Capacity of how camera captures all the emotion
Does bring attention to girl taking scene in.
They are responding to the natural way when something un
natural occurs.
Weegee spent most of his time in the lower parts of NY to get good pictures.
Worked in film etc
Photography of violence, devastation
Using it to portray these emotions
Emmett Till – 14yr old was murdered.
Whistled at a women, and was then murdered be
cause
of it.
Brutalised body of casket 1955
Mother allowed body to be seen at funeral because imagery conveyed a strong emotion.
Fire Escape: Kids sleeping on fire escaoe.
In hells kitchen
Robert Frank
“Trolly” New Orleans
Trolley of people at front
It conveys message of black people congregating
He’s works are more sub
tle the Weegee

Susan Sontag (Video)
Wrote book on visual communication and photography.
Rosmary Lang
Photography looks like paintings. Usually athletes that use trampolines
Poetic photos
What is culture and how does it affect the meaning of the product or artwork?
Define: culture
High – Philosophical intellectual pursuits on art
Low – Everyday consumption of goods, services, popular activities, entertainment and sport.
Change with geographical specific culture
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Barbie goes to Nigeria
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Just a doll not interpret the same way &; Wrong colour
Barbie in time (culture) reflects the fashion of the time.
BARBIE 1: (60’s)
More is.
Everything on body is exaggerated
Blonde
Pouty/ full lips (baby)
Large eyes (innocence)
Extreme proportions (difference between breast and waist measurements)
Long legs
Blue eues
Connotation – Baby, innocence, submission, manipuable, sweetness, unquestioning love.= Power, sexuality
Sexuality is something primitive and can’t be ignored.
Source of Power
Money
Sex (love)
Male (from the contation)
Sense of power
Perpetuates an old paradigm
(The unbalance between the sexes)
Today girls have brains and can make more money, whereas men fashion will become more femimine.
Culture
The process of societies intellectual, spiritual and aesthetic development.
Eg. Philosophers, poets etc
Particular way of life of a people period or group (eg. The development of
literacy, the types of sports played, the celebration of festivals)
Works and practices of intellectual and artistic activity, novel, ballet, opera and fine art
Popular Culture
Phenomenom evolving out of the consumers and emerging youth culture of the 50’s and 60’s.
It’s products are accessible and mass produce
Work deliberately setting out to win favour with the masses of specific community.
Culture produced by industry and consumed and popularized by word of mouth and the media
Criticism of popular culture
Theodore Adorno of “The Frankfurt School” described consumers of such culture victims. Political implications are that this process maintains public passivity towards institutions. In this way, visual communication is an agent of ideaology.
Assessment question: An examination of how the narratives of Walt Disney reinforce and explore the values, prejudice and fears of the culture and is from.
Address also whether from popular culture or high culture
Physical culture it fits in eg Australia, Brazil
Historical culture and how it influenced other things.