09-03-2008, 10:41 PM
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jimgoldstein says:
Addison can you confirm that you are the original photographer of this image? I've written a piece about stolen photography used for political purposes on my blog. Manipulation or Fact? The Politics of Photo Manipulation I want to be sure I'm referencing the correct photographer.
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Doctor Casino says:
Jim - yes, I took this photograph somewhere to the east of Athens, GA in late Spring/early Summer of 2004. Thanks! Nice piece btw - didn't realize Crazy Jim Kunstler had picked this up....
If you don't mind, do you think you could insert a couple of words making it clear that I had nothing to do with the Photoshopping? Credit where credit's due, after all.
Cheers!
Posted 31 hours ago. ( permalink )
jimgoldstein Pro User says:
Will do. Making the edit now
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Doctor Casino Pro User says:
Appreciate it. Just glad to make my (extremely indirect and accidental) contribution to political history.
To anyone else reading - I still have misgivings about all this. The tropes being attached to Sarah Palin here - of being unserious and also of being a sexual body rather than a professional intellect - are, not coincidentally, sexist tropes about womanhood generally. The image is funny to the extent that it plays on something specific to Palin: she is a goofball and more specifically a gun nut who makes lipservice to patriotism (a la American Flag Bikini) while harboring dubious views on fundamental American principles ("Can you tell me how to go about banning a book?"). But to the extent that it's a lightweight's first resort against a female political candidate, it's odious. The proliferation of lizard-brain responses to/uses of the image is particularly telling.
I'm not quite sure whether I want to start issuing emails asking people to take the image down; at this point it almost seems futile anyway. It's a third- or fourth-tier meme; as a meme, it can't really be contained, and as a minor one, it'll burn itself out soon anyway.
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