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Manipulating War Photography (Not Necessarily A Bad Thing?)

War photography is an incredibly nuanced form of witnessing, both for the viewer of the picture and for the photographer. Like many art forms, photography is an attempt to translate an experience from the photographer to the viewer. The game of perspective telephone between photographer and viewer is one that has limitless interferences. On the viewer’s side of witnessing, we commonly view photography as an objective information source. However, photography…

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Witnessing and the Body

Resurrection   Slender neck and sweat-dampened forehead, tasting tongue and the clash of teeth, lungs filled with smoke from the late-burning lamp.   The scratch of pen on parchment, lines curving around bodies as they sink into the blood-soaked earth.    Inside out we feel it pulsing in our neck, hear it in our cotton-stuffed ears, the things we can no longer remember.    The sound of the shutter, the…

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Discussion of Benjamin and Violence as it Relates to Gore, Intent, and Consent

So we did something a little different for this post: I asked questions to Wren and Julia, and I recorded their answers. So here’s that. Benjamin makes an implicit distinction between gore and violence, saying that gore ≠ violence, but how much do you believe gore adds to violence? Wren: She remembered Niles saying something important about bloodshed and its ability to impurify the body by mixing the self with…

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