Graphics copyright issues with images, fonts, logos. The content of the design.
Photography What's considered to be an expectable image, who decides what image can be showed to the public. Misinterpreting a brand, someone might take a photo using a branded item in a way that the company wouldn't want it to be portrayed. publishing rights, who has ownership of the photo and does the photographer still have a right to it if they sell it to or work for a publication. Paparazzi, how much freedom do we have to take photos, long lenses into private property etc. Involvement, a photo is used as a record of life but in the case of natural / wildlife photography should people be allowed to get involved an example of this is Kevin Carter's Vulture
Art If your painting a portrait to sell you will need permission of the person etc.
Questioning..
As a consumer does it matter to you that your paying for child labour or if your the designer would you design for the company knowing this.
Cradle to grave design -designers should following the issues all the way through the life of the product from choosing materials that will last, are recyclable etc. making things sustainable
Mark Fast plus sized Models Daily Mail story London Fashion week 2009
a member of his team refused to work with him because of his decision to use plus sized [14] models in the show, but what message is this sending out to people.
Some brands only have clothing that goes up to a certain size as they don't want their brand associated with larger people, this isn't the image they want portrayed.
Now with trends in fashion changing so quick they have 'throw away fashion' it could work out cheaper to keep buying new clothes from somewhere like Primark than it would be covering the cost of washing it & as the new fashion trends are changing all the time clothing isn't used for as long any more.
Art, gallery's what is acceptable..
Marco Evaristti - Goldfish in Blenders this exhibition gave the audience the chance to turn on two switches if they wanted to which would blend a fish and in a few cases some people actually did do it, this would make you question how is it acceptable and how far can you take it before those people who did it would think it was wrong for example if it was a small fluffy animal would they have switched it on?? Story from The Independent
Guillermo 'Habacuc' Vargas -Starvation, the piece of work he set up was a dog tied to a short rope that he got off the street and he left it there with nothing and a title was written above it in dog biscuits saying 'you are what you read' his point was to show that every year hundreds of dogs die of starvation and no one does anything about it, but as soon as you put it in a gallery people take notice and say it's cruelty. Guardian Story
Image manipulation, changing reality
one of the first edited images was of Joseph Stalin, there were several photos he had with Leon Trotsky when he was working along side him, how ever they fell out and Leon was executed, Stalin had him removed from photos that he was in along side him. This was an attempt to 'alter recorded history'.
Photos were considered as evidence, showing what was happening at the time they were taken, however manipulating or editing them is becoming increasingly easier and it can be hard to tell what's real and what's been changed.
Thomas Demand creates image that look like real places, but he does is purely constructed from materials like card then photographs them, the way they are set up and photographed makes them look like actual room and place. From a glance you wouldn't be able to tell they weren't rooms like the image below, this could be a form of editing or misleading the viewer.
Operation Orlan
She looks at woman in art and history considered as beautiful and has operations to make herself look like them, she has the surgery while awake and talks all the way through as it is recorded. Looking at identity and changing it, people are usually recognisable by photos on passports etc. fingerprints that are unique and names, she is changing as much of this as she can.
Robert Flaherty 1922 -Nanoke of the North, supposed to be a documentary of life in the north pole, was completely constructed, the iglu was set up so that a camera could fit in it, the person they were documenting had a wife but she was replaced by two stage wives because they looked better, they set up hunting scenes but using spears when at this time they had access to guns that they would be using anyway so it was almost set up to show life as people would expect them to be living rather than true to life.
Museum of Mankind, when they received a walrus body and a sketch of it to stuff it they over filled it as they had only seen a walrus from the sketch they were given they didn't know it's body shape, they have rolls of fat but as the sketch didn't show this they filled it solid. This shows how important information is, nowadays we can picture what certain places look like without even being there because of images, videos etc. but also the fact that images can be manipulated 'improved' doesn't always give a true to life view.
Time Magazine -OJ Simpson
the choice of editing that time magazine used on the image of OJ Simpson leaves the viewer questioning what their intention was.
National Geographic - Moved pyramids together in a cover image, as their magazine was portrait and the photo was landscape to make it a better composition they moved one of the pyramids closer so they filled the page more.
Madonna for Louis Vuitton - the original images and the edited ones for the campaign were quite different they made her look a lot younger, from looking at this edited image in particular it makes it harder to notice that it is Madonna in the photos. The thought that I get is that they are using Madonna as an icon for marketing but don't necessarily find that her 'image' is as of importance because of the amount of editing they have used. Looking at the photos you would think why didn't they just use a young model if that is the outcome they are trying to achieve which it seems like from the image, however the publicity from using Madonna would be worth more than the final image.
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