X for U - pictures that lie
X for U - pictures that lie is a traveling exhibition of the Foundation House of History of the Federal Republic of Germany in cooperation with the Federal Agency for Civic Education . The idea and concept come from Jürgen Reiche. The exhibition addresses the objectivity of images and shows basic patterns of manipulation of and with images.
In an “ABC of Lies” , around 300 objects illustrate the breadth of the topic. The name of the exhibition alludes to the phrase someone an X for a U pretend to. The exhibition met with widespread media coverage.
Exhibition themes
The power of the images makes them stick in the memory, for example Marilyn Monroe with a billowing dress or Albert Einstein with an outstretched tongue. But also the escape of the People's Police on August 15, 1961, shortly after the construction of the Wall began , from East Berlin . Or the picture by photographer Nick Út by Phan Thị Kim Phúc , which shows a Vietnamese child after a napalm attack.
The exhibition begins with the film Wag the Dog , in which the manipulation of the population by the media is satirically processed.
The ABC of Lies
"The ABC of Lies" is the main theme of the traveling exhibition, below are the points as they are mentioned in the exhibition and also in the accompanying book.
- A - News
- Current manipulations of the media are shown here, such as B. the attack in Luxor in 1997 : The Swiss tabloid Blick had colored puddles of water in the original photo red, which made them look like a large pool of blood.
- B - Born, Michael
- C - comic
- Comics can also lie if they are censored or retouched. Involuntary comedy can arise here when an object is drawn away, but the text it contains remains.
- The complete retouching of Trotsky and Kamenev from the recordings made by Grigory Petrovich Goldstein during Lenin's speech in Sverdlov Square in Moscow on May 5, 1920.
- E - denazification
- Not only people, but also pictures and objects were denazified .
- F - Leader myth
- G - Gulf War
- H - Hitler Diaries
- I - icon
- Since the US flag, which was initially flown on Iwo Jima , was too small, the process was repeated with a larger flag and recorded by Joe Rosenthal in the picture Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima .
- Yevgeny Ananyevich Chaldej had the Soviet flag hoisted on the Reichstag building repeated and later retouched the picture On the Berlin Reichstag, May 2, 1945 several times.
- J - youth free
- The album cover Country Life by the rock group Roxy Music from 1974. The original shows two women in underwear who show more than they cover. The censored cover only shows the fir branches in the background.
- Municipality 1
- K - Cold War
- L - legend formation
- M - morphing
- N - Nazi cult and Nazism
- O - optical illusion
- P - paragraph
- Q - ricochet
- R - character assassination
- S - satire
- T - text and image
- When text and image are put into a different context.
- U - Ufology
- V - popular uprising
- W - advertising
- X - xenophobia
- Y - Yellow Press
- Z - future
Supporting program
In addition to the ABC of Lies, most organizers have another accompanying program at the traveling exhibition. For example, the ZDF and the State Center for Political Education in Rhineland-Palatinate organized lectures and discussions with prominent journalists and historians.
Nikolaus Brender (left) and Ulrich Kienzle (right) during a panel discussion on The Power of Images in 2005
Guido Knopp during a lecture Pictures that made history on ZDF (2005)
Stations of the traveling exhibition
| Place of issue | place | Date (from - to) | in collaboration with |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frankenthal Art Gallery | Frankenthal (Palatinate) | July 9 - August 29, 2010 | - |
| Hartenfels Castle | Torgau | October 31, 2009 - April 11, 2010 | - |
| Pasinger factory | Munich | September 11 - October 21, 2009 | - |
| Innsbruck arsenal | innsbruck | April 3 - August 30, 2009 | - |
| Liechtenstein National Museum | Vaduz | October 31, 2008 - March 22, 2009 | - |
| Museum of Communication | Bern | October 19, 2007 - July 6, 2008 | - |
| Kulturforum Burgkloster Lübeck | Lübeck | April 28 - October 7, 2007 | Otto von Bismarck Foundation |
| Focke Museum | Bremen | January 17, 2007 - April 15, 2007 | - |
| Osnabrück Cultural History Museum | Osnabrück | September 24, 2006 - January 7, 2007 | VHS Osnabrück |
| Musée d'Histoire de la Ville de Luxembourg | Luxembourg | January 28, 2006 - September 10, 2006 | - |
| Museum of industrial culture | Nuremberg | July 14, 2005 - January 15, 2006 | - |
| ZDF broadcasting center | Mainz | March 13, 2005 - July 3, 2005 | State Center for Political Education Rhineland-Palatinate |
| German newspaper museum | Wadgassen | January 22, 2005 - March 6, 2005 | - |
| Historical Museum Hannover | Hanover | September 18, 2004 - January 9, 2005 | - |
| Museum of Arts and Crafts | Hamburg | May 15, 2004 - September 5, 2004 | - |
| Pomeranian State Museum | Greifswald | February 14, 2004 - April 28, 2004 | - |
| German Historical Museum | Berlin | October 2, 2003 - February 1, 2004 | - |
| Museum for Communication Frankfurt | Frankfurt am Main | August 17, 2000 - October 15, 2000 | - |
| Contemporary history forum | Leipzig | March 2, 2000 - July 9, 2000 | - |
| House of History | Bonn | November 27, 1998 - February 28, 1999 | - |
See also
- Counterfeit
- Photo manipulation
- Political Myth
- Borderline journalism
- Show an X for a U
- A picture is worth a thousand words
literature
- Pictures that Lies: Book accompanying the exhibition of the House of History Foundation of the Federal Republic of Germany . Bouvier, Bonn 2003, ISBN 3-416-02902-X
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Durrer: Show the world as it is. Morgenwelt , March 17, 2005, archived from the original on September 28, 2007 ; Retrieved January 11, 2013 .
- ↑ Pictures that lie . In: Die Zeit , No. 50/1998
- ↑ Find the bug . Mirror online
- ↑ Report on ARTE ( Memento from May 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Report on ARTE ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Report on ARTE ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Frankenthal Art Gallery
- ^ Exhibition in Munich
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Exhibition in Innsbruck