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105MC. How to look at pictures Will Barton. Here’s a picture. What is this? A still taken from a broadcast of an amateur video How do we read it? Why does it have such an impact? What other pictures is it like?. Disasters and horrors. Spectacularity. Challenger Space Shuttle disaster

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  1. 105MC How to look at pictures Will Barton

  2. Here’s a picture • What is this? • A still taken from a broadcast of an amateur video • How do we read it? • Why does it have such an impact? • What other pictures is it like?

  3. Disasters and horrors

  4. Spectacularity • Challenger Space Shuttle disaster • January 28, 1986 • Seven crew members killed • Live on TV • Still image selected from professional live coverage • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_10T4UYpzV8

  5. Titanic • 15 April 1912 • 1517 lives lost • Contemporary drawing • 1997 Film • Which image has more impact? • The modern image is based on a contemporary artist’s impression

  6. Hiroshima • 8:15 A.M. on August 6, 1945 • 80,000 killed outright • Total casualties 90,000–140,000 • Professional (official) still photograph

  7. Shock ‘n’ Awe • Baghdad March 21, 2003 • No official casualty figures released – “Civilian casualties minimised” • Oxford Research Group Iraq Watch estimated 6,616 civilian deaths • Still image from TV coverage • What does this picture look like?

  8. John Martin • Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah 1852 • The Great Day of His Wrath 1874 • VERY BIG oil paintings created to display tom large paying audiences • Biblical themes of violent destruction

  9. Joseph Wright of Derby1734-1797 • Coalbrookdale by Night • Ironforge • Large oil paintings • Similar lighting effects to Martin to convey the power and terror of the industrial revolution

  10. At the video store…

  11. Games and Music

  12. Towers - Collapsing towers are symbols of pride brought low

  13. Pearl Harbournews on top, Hollywood below

  14. Which story ? • Challenger – live horror news • Titanic – unsinklable • Hiroshima – death from the skies • Shock and Awe – terrorism • John Martin – Wrath of God • Falling Towers – Pride humbled • Pearl Harbour – surprise attack

  15. Reading Pictures • Photography and Painting • Ways of Seeing • Visual Literacy • Staged photography: Robert Doisneau

  16. Mr and Mrs Andrews (about 1750)Thomas GAINSBOROUGH 1727 - 1788 http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/cgi-bin/WebObjects.dll/CollectionPublisher.woa/wa/work?workNumber=ng6301

  17. The Arnolfini Betrothal (1434)Jan VanEyck, Died: 1441 • http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/cgi-bin/WebObjects.dll/CollectionPublisher.woa/wa/largeImage?workNumber=NG186

  18. Photography • Derives from the tradition of painting • Shape, presentation, composition, subject

  19. Robert Doisneau • 1950 Le baiser de l'hôtel de ville (Kiss by the Hôtel de Ville ) • Connotation and Denotation • Unreliable evidence – staged photographs and set-ups

  20. How to read a picture • What is it? How was it made? Who made it? What was it made for? • Where is it? Why am I looking at it now? • What sort of picture is it? What other pictures is it like? • What is the meaning of the picture? What does it make me think about? • What are the signifiers and what do they signify? • What denotation and connotation are taking place?

  21. Reading • John Berger – Ways of Seeing • Roland Barthes – Image, Music, Text • Ernst Gombrich – The Story of Art • Better still, don’t just read about pictures – go to an art gallery and look at some.

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