Lecture - Censorship and 'Truth'

Ansel Adams is important for his documentation of American landscapes and his skills in the dark room. Some of his images make you think you're seeing an image from a different season or time of day.

Censorship in photography is a long running thing, as shown by these photos of Stalin with and without Trotsky, someone who's political views he disagreed with.

More recent examples tend to revolve around the use of Photoshop, the example used was GQ Magazine extending Kate Winslet's legs.

Simulacrum: A small scale or unsatisfactory representation of something.

Jean Baudrillard wrote a book called The Gulf War Did Not Take Place, where he argued that the gulf war was more a war of representation than a physical war.

An-My Le worked with the American government to take photos of war that made it seem more glamorous and less brutal.