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A Discussion about the Role of Photography in the African American Post-War Civil Rights Movement (Paperback)
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A Discussion about the Role of Photography in the African American Post-War Civil Rights Movement (Paperback)
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Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Art - Photography and Film,
grade: -, University of Westminster, language: English, abstract:
Photography has played various roles in the African American
Post-War Civil Rights Movement. Besides its extraordinary coverage
of the contemporary Jazz scene and the historical documentation of
the segregated South (Kasher, 1996), it had in particular a
remarkable political function. Photography and television have
given the Civil Rights fighters a voice which could not be ignored
in Post-War America; by showing the struggle in all its unjust
cruelty they confronted the national and international community
with the shocking reality. People got motivated to express their
sympathy for the demonstrators and the number of Movement
supporters grew rapidly. Thereby, the most significant stream of
followers arose only after the news media had shown images of
unexpected outrage, making the relationship obvious (Streitmatter,
2008). In general, media do not only have a significant impact on
public opinion but also contribute greatly to the success of
humanitarian organisations. Often their influence even exceeds the
possibilities available to politicians. This arises from the news
media being the only source of information consumers get about
developments further afield, making the success of civil rights
movements highly dependent on their image given by press and
television (International Council on Human Rights Policy, 2002). As
one of these movements, the struggle for desegregation in America
is the most thoroughly documented social conflict to date (Kasher,
1996). The tabloid Life, which can be seen as the national
newspaper at the time (Shepherd, 1997), was reaching even more
people than the new medium of television. For this reason, the
magazine's understanding of the events, which was expressed by its
presentation of images of the iconography of war - uniformed
troopers, weaponed assaults, the wounded, state funerals - was
spread w
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