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(The Camera Never Lies - The Use of Images - Part 2)

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[Dr Emmett Sullivan] Now I mentioned earlier that as part of our course doing history

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we'd consider aspects of the built environment.

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So as well as images and photographs of [br]different types, we can also start

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thinking about considering buildings, [br]monuments, memorials.

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Anyone who spent time walking along the [br]Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C.,

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it's very striking, it's very somber.

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And is of a very different nature to many of the other memorials

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that you will see in and around Washington,

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particularly the more recent Second World War memorial,

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which might be taken more of a celebration.

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So, we can also make judgments about the nature of events

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by the way that they are memorialized, and the way that they are depicted through time.

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Now, one consideration is how certain images become recurring.

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And what I have here is - and if you'll forgive me a second -

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is the Eugene Delacroix' portrait or picture of Liberty leading the line, so to speak.

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This comes from the French Revolution,

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it's painted nearly 40 years after the event and very clearly embodies the idea

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that everyone is involved in the Revolution, including this stylized view of Truth and Justice

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through the body of a woman holding the French flag

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And something that will be familiar to millions upon million of tourists into New York,

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which is the statue of Liberty.

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Again, a gift on the 100 years of independence of the United States

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and another embodiment, through the female form of Truth and Justice and Liberty.

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Now those come from two Western traditions

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and are celebrating revolution and in a positive way.

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Let's consider something that happened in 1989

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and is, again, an image that looks reasonably innocuous at this point in time.

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This is the Goddess of Democracy.

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This is built by students, in China, in 1989, in Tiananmen Square.

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Now from what was intended as a peaceful protest

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we don't think so much of this particular image,

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although we can see some lineage and some continuation of the general themes

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of the purer forms of society coming in a non male package so to speak. /////

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It's a slightly odd way of putting it but just consider it in those terms.

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Yet the photographer that took this photograph is much more famous for taking this one.

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And this can be taken several days apart.

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But this an image of oppression, this is an image of courage

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and this is an image of determination, hope.

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In the fir, in the face of might beyond understanding.

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So here we have an issue where it doesn't take too long for one theme of linking different images through history

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to become immediately changed into something else.

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Same photographer, same event, very, very different resonance.

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