Landscapes of Absence

Bauer, Brandon

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Description

Title

Landscapes of Absence

Author(s)

Bauer, Brandon

Issue Date

2017

Keyword(s)

• Islamic State
• propaganda
• digital media
• conceptual art
• landscape
• absence
• iconoclasm
• image
• ethics
• journalism
• news
• media

Abstract

The project and exhibition Landscapes of Absence by Brandon Bauer explores ethical issues around the use of ISIS propaganda images within the media. In particular, the project examines the use of propaganda images in the absence of reliable and journalistically objective images, since the brutal beheadings of western journalists has made it too dangerous to report from areas under control of the self-proclaimed Islamic State. The project uses images drawn from eight beheading incidents disseminated through ISIS media outlets. In the works in the exhibition, the dehumanized image of the victims has been erased, leaving only the landscape and the absence of image as a metaphor for the larger issue of the absence of reliable reporting.

Series/Report Name or Number

Media-N, vol. 13, issue 1

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/113387

DOI

https://doi.org/10.21900/j.median.v13i1.7

Copyright and License Information

• Copyright 2017 Brandon Bauer
• This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

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