Author: langleyrick

Omer Fast, The Casting-Langley

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  • -creates video work that aims to reconnect narratives about recent resonant events to the lived experiences behind them.
  • -viewers asked to become aware of their belief systems
  • -internalized history
  • -communicated experience entails

The Casting

  • -2007
  • -4 channel video installation
  • -screens switch between date with self-harming girl, experiencing war in Iraq, and footage of a soldier in telling the artist the two violent stories
  • -based on an interview with a US Army sergeant
  • -soldiers recollections
  • -unifying soundtrack brings all the videos together
  • -encourages an open ended experience of the video
  • -video offers a perspective in Iraqi conflict that takes actual lives into account as well as political conflict

War Photographer –Langley Rick

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Sargent Stacy L. Pearsall

  • Iraq War 2003, two deployments
  • Captured combat experiences in Iraq
  • Never wanted to stop being a combat photographer
  • Wanted to photograph American military efforts around the world
  • Captured soldiers she didn’t know and soldiers she was friends with
  • Suffered an enormous physical toll
  • Suffered serious injuries from a roadside bomb
    • Injuries more serious than she thought
      • Medically discharged
  • PTSD
    • large psychological toll

The Pain of Others -Ch 4–Langley Rick

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  • Ch 4
  • -Capturing the moment of death
  •       -The face and expression of the victims and their killers
  • -“the opportunity to look at people who know they have been condemned to die”
  • -how does the photographer feel capturing this?
  •       -being so close to death
  •        -capturing death
  • -the censorship of war photographs
  •      -should they be shown?
  •     -too graphic?
  •              -what about the family of the victims if it were published?
  • -only selected photos shown
  •         -military imposed censorship
  • -allowing the camera on the battlefield
  • -Activities that happen in Africa
  •         -seems so far away
  •          -we don’t ever think about what’s happening in Africa because it doesn’t affect us
  •        -photographers capturing villagers dying of AIDs recently
  • -even if photos are censored, the family of the victims will eventually see the photos
  •           -New York Times— published three color images of a Taliban soldier begging for his life