Images in the Images in the MediaMedia

• Where do we see images?

• How do images influence our thinking?

• What stereotypes do images promote?

Louis XIVBy Hyacinth Rigaud, 1701

•What symbols do you see?

•What is the purpose of this painting?

•What do you see?

Image Source: Hyacinthe RIGAUD. Retrieved July 20, 2007, from Louve Museum Web site: http://cartelen.louvre.fr/cartelen/visite?srv=car_not_frame&idNotice=8817

• This portrait was commissioned as a gift for Philip V of Spain. However, it was such a success at court that it was never sent to Spain.

• Every detail of the work is aimed at producing the quintessential image of absolute power: – the nobility of the antique setting, – the crimson curtain, and – royal fleur de lys.

Louis XIVBy Hyacinth Rigaud, 1701

Vincent, P Hyacinthe RIGAUD. Retrieved July 21, 2007, from Louve Museum Web site: http://cartelen.louvre.fr/cartelen/visite?srv=car_not_frame&idNotice=8817

Gargantua

• Who do you think this image represents?

• What idea do you think the artist is trying to convey in this image?

By Honoré Daumier, 1831

• How does it compare with the previous image of a king?

Image Source: Retrieved July 20, 2007, from Olga's Gallery Web site: http://www.abcgallery.com/D/daumier/daumier88.html

Gargantua

• When Honore Daumier was 24 he was first censored for his caricature of the French king Louis-Philippe.

• This took place within the first years of the July Monarchy, and the king felt paranoid and insecure in his seat of power.

• In the caricature, entitled "Gargantua", the king is represented as a giant gourmand, – a character taken from Francois Rabelais' series of stories, which were

themselves censored by the Sorbonne.

• The fat king sits in front of the National Assembly on a large commode. • A huge plank comes out of his mouth on which rewards travel down to the

eager officials beneath. • Standing around his small, cripples legs are tattered workers and starving

mothers who drop coins into the baskets on ministers.

By Honoré Daumier, 1831

Retrieved July 20, 2007, from FileRoom.com Web site: http://www.thefileroom.org/documents/dyn/DisplayCase.cfm/id/1118

Mission Accomplished

•What symbols do you see?

•What is the purpose of this photograph?

•What do you see?

Image Source: Retrieved July 20, 2007, from Think Progress Web site: http://thinkprogress.org/2005/11/30/mission-accomplished

The Wandering Jew

•What symbols do you see?

•What is the purpose of this Image?

•What do you see?

•What impact did this image have on the events leading up to the Holocaust?

Image Source: Anti-Semitic Propaganda . Retrieved July 21, 2007, from History Wiz Web site: http://historywiz.com/antisemitic.htm

• Portrayed Jews as communists, swindlers and sex-fiends1

• Exaggerates stereotypical physical characteristics• Propaganda was intended to "dehumanize," or

remove human characteristics from, the Jews so that their elimination would not seem like murder at all.

The Wandering Jew

1Anti-Semitic Propaganda . Retrieved July 21, 2007, from History Wiz Web site: http://historywiz.com/antisemitic.htm

2How Did the Dehumanization of the Jews Happen?. Retrieved July 20, 2007, from The Holocaust Center of the United Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh Web site: http://www.holocaustcenterpgh.net/3-1.html

Project

As we read the book Night by Elie Wiesel, we were shocked by many of the events

For your final project you will analyze the images that changed or exacerbated the way many Germans thought about Jews

You Will:• Research Dr. Joseph Goebbels• Analyze an German propaganda Image and compare to

a contemporary image in the media