Week 4

Images, Power, Politics

I. Arthur Felig (Weegee) June 12, 1899 - December 26, 1968

     1. Their First Murder (Before 1945)
     2. Weegee working in the back of his Chevrolet in 1942
          a. where he developed all his photos on the spot
     3. Emmett Till
          b. “whistled” at a white woman so white men tortured him to death
     4. Emmett Till’s brutalized body in his casket, 1955
     5. Fire Escape: Nice View, Sleeps 8
     6. Hell’s Kitchen

II. Robert Frank

     1. “Trolly” New Orleans
          a. denotation: people on trolley
          b. connotation” segregation between black and whites with the blacks being pushed to                the back of the bus

III. MCA Head of Artistic Programs on Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer’s Life 1990 - 2005

     1. She stuck up 2 panels and put up all of her pictures so she could choose the ones for the           exebition and live with them to ensure their quality and importance
     2. born in 1949 in Connecticut (3rd child of 6 children)
     3. fun-loving family (can be seen in the pictures of her parents)
     4. over the 15 year span of the photogtraphs one can notice:
          a. father grows increasingly fail
          b. loses good friend Susan Songtag
          c. Annie had 3 children (2001, first child born same year of world trade center)
          d. great interest in the body (olympic athletes, Johnny Depp, Kate Monson)
     5. San Francisco Art Academy graduate
          a. in her 3rd year, she was having her images printed in the Rolling Stone
     6. by 1973 she was the regular editor of Rolling Stone
          a. went on the road with Rolling Stone’s band traveling cross-country
          b. took the last image of John Lenon nearly 4 hours before he was killed
     7. went to work for Vanity Fair after Rolling Stone
          a. caused quite a scandal with her first picture
     8. Annie was 51 when her first daughter was born

IV. Rosemary Laing - Australian

     1. Bride photographs
          a. staged photography with trampolines and women in bridal gowns
          b. some with bullet holes, others with birds, all falling from the sky