[lit-ideas] Re: Censorship Battle Over Frenchman's Face [was War Is War Is War]
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 13:45:35 -0700 (PDT)
Well, I am not sure how the image is censored if we can view it right here on
the Internet, is this somehow confidential ?
Wondering about the definition of censorship,
O.K.
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From: David Ritchie <profdritchie@xxxxxxxxx>
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, September 6, 2013 10:39 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Censorship Battle Over Frenchman's Face [was War Is
War Is War]
On Sep 5, 2013, at 7:37 AM, Donal McEvoy wrote:
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>http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/04/francois-hollande-photo-news-agencies
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>Unlike some of JLS' posts, you couldn't make it up.
>
>
>Somewhere in my files I have a good number of negatives that were not
>published by the newspaper which employed me. This was for one or more of
>several reasons a) the shots didn't support or reinforce the story I was
>writing, b) they broke the unwritten rule that you don't mock power without
>cause c) they didn't conform to the image vocabulary we've developed d) they
>were the photographic equivalent of acknowledging a fart. I have sometimes
>thought it might be interesting to print the images and have a show of
>celebrities' unguarded moments, but I've been unable to think of a good
>reason. Can anyone on the list? What do we learn from the image of Hollande?
> That in some moments he looks silly? That gravitas is constructed and we
>collectively agree to seeing the clothes we're told to see? That people who
>make decisions on our behalf are people, and no more?
David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
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