Here is that part of the image itself in some ways is without inherent meaning, some ways the photograph itself needs to be coded through captions, through the sort of articles next to it, through many other ideas like the readers own political persuasion. The image becomes largely meaningless until it becomes coded by the surrounding areas. In some ways, the image without a code needs a code, the context for understanding its meaning. So talks about the paradox of photography and particularly of press photography. The ways that constructed intentional meaning, the things that have opinions or political leanings, can seem natural and pregiven, thanks to the index of photography. Reminding what it means. Of course, you know, thinking back to our photograph right here. We know that there was a corpse hanging from a tree. Light reflects that body on to photographic film and we know that it was there. That idea of truth value, that factual quality of photography. In some ways makes the con
Tv, Wake Forest University Professor John curley teaches a class on how the cold war infliei influenced and was influenced by photography. This is about an hour ten minutes. So last time we were talking about world war ii photography and the ways that photographers interacted with the cwar. We ended looking at this image last year. The Mushroom Cloud that emerged after the dropping of the atomic bomb on nagasaki. This image, of course, marks the end of world war ii. In many ways it marks the beginning of the cold war. Of course, nuclear dread and Nuclear Anxiety hovered over the conflict during the 1950s and 1960s and up through the 1980s to the end of the conflict. Its a fitting image to begin our class today. We will think a lot about photography during the cold war. Specifically, american photography during the cold war. This is a massive topic. One could imagine a course on the subject. General themes as well as case studies and in the meantime, along the way, talk about some advan
Nagasaki in 1945. It marked the end of world war ii but marks the beginning of the cold war. Nuclear dread, Nuclear Anxiety hovered over the conflict during the 1950s and 1960s and even up to the 1980s to the end of the conflict. A fitting image to begin our class today. Today we think a lot about photography during the cold war, specifically american photography during the cold war. Imagine a week or two or even course of the subject think about general themes as well as case studies and in the meantime talk about some advances in Media Technology and how newspapers were printing photographs during these years. Before we get into photography, should make sure we understand what the cold war is. As we get further and further removed from it becomes more fuzzy and the collective unconscious. Of course the cold war was the ideological battle between the United States and the soviet union. Which began after world war ii, around 1945 and goes all the way to 1989. Then, of course, the allie
The fbi busting an isis inspired plot in the United States. Im john berman. It is monday april 20th. Christine romans is off today. Ships in the mediterranean are recovering scores of bodies this morning. Among the migrants in libya who apparently died sunday when the ship they were packed into capsized. One survivor tells officials many who died were locked in the boat by smugglers. Our Senior Correspondent ben wedeman is following the able to recover four bodies. He talked about lots of debris in the sea. Apparently where the ship capsized is an area with very strong currents. He said the depth of the sea in that authorities did release a statement that included testimony from a bangladeshi survivor. He said as many as 950 people were on board the ship. Many were locked in the lower decks and simply could not get out or escape from the ship when it capsized some time in the Early Morning hours of sunday. John. Just 28 survivors. Potentially 900 people on board that small vessel. What
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