Photographic & Electronic Media

Candles lit for the victims of supporters of Mousavi, who were killed on June 16,
and a slogan that reads in Persian” Death to dictator” is seen on a street in Tehran, Iran, on Thursday June, 18, 2009.

I thought this might be of interest to the Grad Photo crowd.

http://thenextweb.com/2009/06/17/amazing-mobile-app-lets-world-through-online-eyes/

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The New York Times LENS Blog is always worth looking at. Today’s post is exceptional - especially after the serious consideration of four ‘iconic’ images of Tiananmen Square. Today’s a new image appeared, unpublished in the 20 years since it was taken … I won’t copy and paste it here - it deserves to be seen in the context of the report …

The LENS Blog posting here:

2: Hitler in color

From the LIFE Magazine website: “between 1936 and 1945, German photographer Hugo Jaeger was granted unprecedented access to Adolf Hitler, traveling and chronicling, in color, the Fuhrer and his confidants at small gatherings, public events, and, quite often, in private moments. Here, and in several other galleries on LIFE, we now present never-before-published photographs from Jaeger’s astonishing — and chilling — collection.”

Several ‘galleries’ here:

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“We, viewing the pictures, are complicit. As consumers of images we bear witness through them. Or we’re voyeurs. In either case we complete a transaction that we instigated, in that a photograph is made hoping someone will look at it. It’s a message tossed into the ocean of time, and how we read that message, whether indifferently or with compassion, can have moral dimensions.”

From the NYTimes report on the exhibition “Controversies: A Legal and Ethical History of Photography”.

The NYTimes review here:

The Exhibition Press Release here:

a well deserved moment of reflection !