CLASS 9 • Control, Surveillance, and Everyday Life
TECHNICAL OBJECTIVES: Students will use photo cells/EZIO board to create alterations in video imagery |
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Questions about Geoffrey Batchen's "Guilty Pleasures" 1) Why does Batchen argue that "the panoptic principle has always been inscribed at the very heart of photography's operation in our culture?" P.448 2) What other kind of invisibility has been inscribed into the heart of photography? p.448 3) What invention in the late nineteenth century gave rise to what Batchen calls a "surveillance/photographic aesthetic?" p.449 4) What was Jonathan Fallowfield's Facile Hand Camera? p.450 What kinds of police concerns accompanied this camera's popularity? 5) What were Lewis Hine's conventions for an "ethical" photograph of immigrants at Ellis Island? p.451 Are any vestiges of these ethics still in place for journalistic photographers? 6) Who said this and in what context? "Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long." p.454. 7) What was the Mass Observation movement? p.455 What happened to the movement—that is what did it become after the outbreak of WWII in 1939? 8) What industry, according to Batchen, has appropriated the aesthetic of 19th century detective photography? |
