[Script Info] Title: [Events] Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.04,0:00:02.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Music].\N(University of London International Programmes) Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.12,0:00:13.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(The Camera Never Lies - The Use of Images - Part 2) Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.84,0:00:18.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Dr Emmett Sullivan] Now I mentioned earlier that as part of our course doing history Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.60,0:00:21.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we'd consider aspects of the built environment. Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.25,0:00:27.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So as well as images and photographs of \Ndifferent types, we can also start Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.10,0:00:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thinking about considering buildings, \Nmonuments, memorials. Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.62,0:00:38.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anyone who spent time walking along the \NVietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C., Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.72,0:00:42.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's very striking, it's very somber. Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.28,0:00:46.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And is of a very different nature to many of the other memorials Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.89,0:00:49.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you will see in and around Washington, Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.36,0:00:53.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,particularly the more recent Second World War memorial, Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.12,0:00:55.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which might be taken more of a celebration. Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.92,0:01:01.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, we can also make judgments about the nature of events Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.57,0:01:05.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the way that they are memorialized, and the way that they are depicted through time. Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.08,0:01:13.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, one consideration is how certain images become recurring. Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.94,0:01:17.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what I have here is - and if you'll forgive me a second - Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.55,0:01:24.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the Eugene Delacroix' portrait or picture of Liberty leading the line, so to speak. Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.06,0:01:27.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This comes from the French Revolution, Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.38,0:01:34.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's painted nearly 40 years after the event and very clearly embodies the idea Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.37,0:01:42.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that everyone is involved in the Revolution, including this stylized view of Truth and Justice Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.21,0:01:46.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through the body of a woman holding the French flag Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.41,0:01:53.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And something that will be familiar to millions upon million of tourists into New York, Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.12,0:01:55.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is the statue of Liberty. Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.60,0:02:00.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Again, a gift on the 100 years of independence of the United States Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.56,0:02:08.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and another embodiment, through the female form of Truth and Justice and Liberty. Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.76,0:02:11.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now those come from two Western traditions Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.99,0:02:17.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and are celebrating revolution and in a positive way. Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.52,0:02:21.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's consider something that happened in 1989 Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.99,0:02:30.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and is, again, an image that looks reasonably innocuous at this point in time. Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.93,0:02:33.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the Goddess of Democracy. Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.87,0:02:40.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is built by students, in China, in 1989, in Tiananmen Square. Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.14,0:02:45.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now from what was intended as a peaceful protest Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.76,0:02:49.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we don't think so much of this particular image, Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.36,0:02:53.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,although we can see some lineage and some continuation of the general themes Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.63,0:03:01.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the purer forms of society coming in a non male package so to speak. ///// Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a slightly odd way of putting it but just consider it in those terms. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yet the photographer that took this photograph is much more famous for taking this one. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this can be taken several days apart. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But this an image of oppression, this is an image of courage Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this is an image of determination, hope. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the fir, in the face of might beyond understanding. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So here we have an issue where it doesn't take too long for one theme of linking different images through history Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to become immediately changed into something else. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Same photographer, same event, very, very different resonance. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(University of London International Programmes)