Stage 2 Oral presentation

The Movement of Vulnerability: Images of Falling and September 11

(Andrea Fitzpatrick, 2007)

Chiara Landi

King’s College London

July 2011

Outline

• Introduction

- Purpose

- Background

- Audience• Body:

- Key points

- Evaluation• Conclusion

Introduction

• PurposeDo images of falling change the perception of

subjects’ vulnerability?

• BackgroundTragedy of September 11Richard Drew’s photography

• AudienceArt Critics, Professors, Journalists

The Falling Man

Richard Drew Photograph, (2001)

Key points

• Relationship Art & Death

• Concept of Vulnerability

vulnerable = exposed to the possibility of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally (Oxford Dictionary, 2004)

Strengths

• Author’s position is clear

• Hard topic

• Other research to support the argument

Weaknesses

•Academic language

•Non-essential descriptions

•Not easy to follow

•Lack of opposite points of view

Barthes’s theory (1980)

STUDIUM PUNCTUM

- It makes a photograph interesting - Wound- It is chosen by the photographer - Beyond - It is the same for all viewers photographer’s

- Objective control - Subjective

(Bordini, 2008)

Conclusion is not based on the evidence

Art and tragedies: should be avoided

• Loss of informational purpose

•Medium’s fault (Sontag, 1977) (Butler, 2004)

Conclusion

• Valid • Interesting/hard topic• Significant in its field• Some fundamental problems• Lack of other evidence• Future developments

ReferencesBarthes, R (1980). Camera Lucida. London: Vintage.Butler, J (2004) Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence. London: VersoDrew, R (2001) The Falling man. Photograph. WideWorldPhotosOxford Dictionary (2004). Oxford: Oxford University Press.Sontag, S (1977). On Photography. London: Penguin

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