http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/ Online Journal on Media Culture (ISSN 1567-7745) en Tue, 15 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT g.j.tillekens@rug.nl (Ger Tillekens) http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/ http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/LAYOUT/soundscapes.jpg 144 18 Soundscapes Logo http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/EDITORIAL/oped1501.shtml http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/EDITORIAL/oped1501.shtml Unwantingly, sometimes, two pictures will meld together in the mind's eye, leaving a lasting and alienating afterimage. This is what happened to Hans Durrer when he saw the prize-winnning photograph of Massoud Hossaini and a picture of the jubilant photographer himself. Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/EDITORIAL/oped1404.shtml http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/EDITORIAL/oped1404.shtml Photographs impress themselves upon our memory while, at the same time, our memories inform the way we look at photographs. Looking at pictures, Hans Durrer warns, we should be rather careful about this interaction between what we see and what we seem to remember. Sat, 24 Mar 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/VOLUME14/Rem_Reflections.shtml http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/VOLUME14/Rem_Reflections.shtml In the early 1960's a consortium of publishers and captains of industry build an artificial island just outside the territorial waters of the Netherlands to provide the country with its first batch of commercial television. Breaking both with the non-commercial character as well as the lack of popular entertainment of public television, the station, aptly called 'TV-Noordzee," was an instant success. Hans Knot looks back at this watery episode in the history of Dutch television. Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:00:00 GMT http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/EDITORIAL/oped1403.shtml http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/EDITORIAL/oped1403.shtml One does not have to be a professional photographer to take a really good picture. What counts, Hans Durrer tells us, is the meaning a picture transmits to those who see it. Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:00:00 GMT http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/EDITORIAL/oped1402.shtml http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/EDITORIAL/oped1402.shtml In order to understand a photograph we need to ask how, when, where and for what purpose it was taken, argues Hans Durrer in this op-ed. Fri, 1 Jul 2011 12:00:00 GMT http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/EDITORIAL/oped1401.shtml http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/EDITORIAL/oped1401.shtml In 1999, Cynthia Stewart from Oberlin, Ohio, was accused of taking obscene snapshots of her own litle daughter. Her case, as Hans Durrer argues, once again shows that photographs let us see what we want to see. Tue, 26 Apr 2011 12:00:00 GMT http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/VOLUME14/Adatto_2008.shtml http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/VOLUME14/Adatto_2008.shtml Nowadays, as Kiku Adatto argues in "Picture perfect," people want photographs to mirror reality as well as to create illusions. What are the implications of this ambivalent attitude, and is it really something new? With these questions in the back of his mind Hans Durrer reviews Adatto's book. Tue, 26 Apr 2011 12:00:00 GMT http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/VOLUME13/The_Cruel_Radiance.shtml http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/VOLUME13/The_Cruel_Radiance.shtml Clinging to the rules of objectivity critics often shun the power of photography to engender our empathy and raise our anxieties. In her recent book "The Cruel Radiance," Susie Linfield eloquently and convincingly attacks this position by showing and discussing photographs of political violence. Hans Durrer invites us to her views. Sun, 23 Jan 2010 12:00:00 GMT http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/EDITORIAL/oped1303.shtml http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/EDITORIAL/oped1303.shtml Photoshopping press photos seems to have become a habit among the main providers of our daily news. Hans Durrer here illustrates this phenomenon with examples from "The Economist," "Al-Ahram" and the press information of oil and gas giant BP. Thu, 4 Nov 2010 12:00:00 GMT http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/VOLUME13/Flat_Earth.shtml http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/VOLUME13/Flat_Earth.shtml The journalist' ethic of honesty, Nick Davies writes in his recent book "Flat Earth News," "has been overwhelmed by the mass production of ignorance" — a thesis he subsequently illustrates with many examples. Hans Durrer read the book and comments on it. Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:00:00 GMT