The Movement of Vulnerability: Images of Falling and September 11(Andrea Fitzpatrick, 2007)
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Stage 2 Oral presentation
The Movement of Vulnerability: Images of Falling and September 11
(Andrea Fitzpatrick, 2007)
Chiara Landi
King’s College London
July 2011
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Outline
• Introduction
- Purpose
- Background
- Audience• Body:
- Key points
- Evaluation• Conclusion
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Introduction
• PurposeDo images of falling change the perception of
subjects’ vulnerability?
• BackgroundTragedy of September 11Richard Drew’s photography
• AudienceArt Critics, Professors, Journalists
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The Falling Man
Richard Drew Photograph, (2001)
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Key points
• Relationship Art & Death
• Concept of Vulnerability
vulnerable = exposed to the possibility of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally (Oxford Dictionary, 2004)
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Strengths
• Author’s position is clear
• Hard topic
• Other research to support the argument
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Weaknesses
•Academic language
•Non-essential descriptions
•Not easy to follow
•Lack of opposite points of view
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Barthes’s theory (1980)
STUDIUM PUNCTUM
- It makes a photograph interesting - Wound- It is chosen by the photographer - Beyond - It is the same for all viewers photographer’s
- Objective control - Subjective
(Bordini, 2008)
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Conclusion is not based on the evidence
Art and tragedies: should be avoided
• Loss of informational purpose
•Medium’s fault (Sontag, 1977) (Butler, 2004)
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Conclusion
• Valid • Interesting/hard topic• Significant in its field• Some fundamental problems• Lack of other evidence• Future developments
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ReferencesBarthes, R (1980). Camera Lucida. London: Vintage.Butler, J (2004) Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence. London: VersoDrew, R (2001) The Falling man. Photograph. WideWorldPhotosOxford Dictionary (2004). Oxford: Oxford University Press.Sontag, S (1977). On Photography. London: Penguin
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