The use of digital software and photo manipulation makes knowing what is real and what has been fabricated difficult to tell apart.
Should images be altered to enhance drama or fabricate meaning? or should we be shown the unedited truth?
'Small Wars documents a different kind of war, is this more fine art than documentary?
Documenting war in a different light, is this making art out of conflict, that doesn't represent the universal truth.
Censor: a person authorised to examine films etc. in order to ban or cut anything that is obscene or objectifiable.
Overly sexualised advertisement for chocolate:
Controversial ad for a fragrance:
Jermaine Greer argues that you can go into the national gallery and see similar content
Controversy as the nude female in this photo is only 15 (1980)
This poses the question of where 'art' can be used to justify controversial material:
Means of defining wether or not can be accepted as serious artistic material:
Sally Mann is a photographer who takes pictures of her children, content that could be questioned as controversial:
Displays nudity of children, argument for this is that every parent will own similar pictures of their own kids, but is it acceptable to publish these?
Displayed in the Saatchi Gallery is 2001:
The way the press reported on the event:
Is this an indecent picture or just kids in a bath?
The photographer responds:
These images where removed from the exhibition
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