The State of the Political Photograph — Musée Magazine
2019年8月2日 · At the start of the 20th century, photographs emerged as the favored medium for conveying a politician’s message by means of non-posed, narrative photography. Political photography — despite its ever-growing presence in the advent of the internet and 24-hour news stream — has often been overlooked as a subtle way of influencing public ...
Political portraits in the media age - BBC
Politics takes place right inside that contemporary flood of images – and, in consequence, artistic depictions of politicians now tend to feel dutiful or behind-the-times. What was the point, one...
From Protest to Portraiture – 5 Political Photographs to
2020年2月20日 · However, there is still a story to be told in a political photo – often one which has changed over time, or altered with hindsight, or been shaped by the artist’s intervention. Here are five examples from the Artspace archive from different times, with very different approaches, but equally powerful results.
Picturing Dissent: 50 Years of Protest Photographs - Aperture
2017年1月19日 · Just as the protests at Tiananmen Square in 1989 are widely remembered in relation to Magnum photographer Stuart Franklin’s iconic “Tank Man” photograph, the viral Facebook Live videos showing law enforcement deploying water cannons on a crowd of activists throw the spotlight on recent protests at Standing Rock.
The Power of Images in Global Politics - E-International Relations
2018年3月8日 · Images shape international events and our understandings of them. Photographs, cinema and television influence how we view and approach phenomena as diverse as war, humanitarian disasters, protest movements, financial crises and election campaigns. The dynamics of visual politics go well beyond traditional media outlets.
The heterodox structure of the book—with essays by pho-tographers, activists, and writers alongside image se-quences—and the populist strategies of the collective can also be usefully compared with the British project Photography Workshop, instigated in …
Does photography have a big impact on politics? - The DSLR
2022年9月15日 · Think about the way that objects and images perform and visually express a sense of self and community, which in turn shapes politics. The most prominent examples include flags, parades, religious symbols, monuments, and cemeteries. Political communication using photography as a tactical weapon
A Photographer Who Captures the Humanity in Politics
2016年4月21日 · The photographer Pete Voelker has a widely diverse portfolio: He’s shot everything from portraits of musicians to still lifes to reportage, and his most recent work has taken him all over the...
Politics in Photography - John Stathatos
The sympathetic or committed coverage of conflicts, disasters and spectacular deprivation are the most dramatic use of photography in a political context, but scarcely the only one.
Can Photographers Influence Politics? - E-International Relations
2019年9月1日 · The political influence of photography is the subject of longstanding debate. An image of atrocity can serve as a ‘call for peace’ or ‘a cry for revenge’, argued the writer and activist Susan Sontag (2004: 12).