Comments on: World Press Photo of the Year 2006 http://eped.loveitorchangeit.com/2007/02/11/world-press-photo-of-the-year-2006/ ceci ne sont pas des pipes Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:06:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: weytan http://eped.loveitorchangeit.com/2007/02/11/world-press-photo-of-the-year-2006/#comment-8065 weytan Tue, 13 Feb 2007 14:56:59 +0000 http://eped.loveitorchangeit.com/2007/02/11/world-press-photo-of-the-year-2006/#comment-8065 For those who are interested in the analysis of images with cultural and/or political impact - mainly press images - I can recommend <a href="http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/" rel="nofollow">BAGNewsNotes</a>. It's interesting what phototechnical (re)contextualisation, wanton omission, accentuation, or careful stageing of picture elements, what concisions (or mutilations) of photos as references to the 'real' can achieve in the cursory viewer's mind. And there are also semantically related photos, like the wedding between <a href="http://bagnewsnotes.typepad.com/bagnews/images/Berman-Ziegel.jpg" rel="nofollow">Ziegel and Kline (Beware: Much more graphic than the background of a destroyed city)</a> which should be accounted for. It's a kind of dark complement for the Lebanon picture - 'Hurt and Hope' - you just have to change McNally's "can keep looking at" to "can't keep looking at". Both can be, with a certain aftertaste, be titled <a href="http://bagnewsnotes.typepad.com/bagnews/2007/02/your_turn_rites.html" rel="nofollow">"Rites of passage".</a> For those who are interested in the analysis of images with cultural and/or political impact - mainly press images - I can recommend BAGNewsNotes.
It’s interesting what phototechnical (re)contextualisation, wanton omission, accentuation, or careful stageing of picture elements, what concisions (or mutilations) of photos as references to the ‘real’ can achieve in the cursory viewer’s mind.

And there are also semantically related photos, like the wedding between Ziegel and Kline (Beware: Much more graphic than the background of a destroyed city) which should be accounted for.
It’s a kind of dark complement for the Lebanon picture - ‘Hurt and Hope’ - you just have to change McNally’s “can keep looking at” to “can’t keep looking at”.
Both can be, with a certain aftertaste, be titled “Rites of passage”.

]]> By: Jaap http://eped.loveitorchangeit.com/2007/02/11/world-press-photo-of-the-year-2006/#comment-8043 Jaap Mon, 12 Feb 2007 15:18:57 +0000 http://eped.loveitorchangeit.com/2007/02/11/world-press-photo-of-the-year-2006/#comment-8043 I also noticed this photo as remarkable. For Issues Management this is a very good example of using as an illustration...! I also noticed this photo as remarkable. For Issues Management this is a very good example of using as an illustration…!

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