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The camera as a weapon of persuasion. Examine how governments and ideologies have manipulated the "truth" of the photograph to mobilize populations and shape public opinion.

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Deconstruct the Message.

Contents

Introduction
1Introduction to propaganda
Photography as a means to raise awareness
2Southworth and Hawes: The Branded Hand of Captain Jonathan Walker
3Cartes de visite: Propaganda
American Civil War (1861-1865)
4Propaganda during the American Civil War (1861-1865)
5A.C. Kline: Jeff Davis "taking" Washington
6The scourged back
7Emancipated slaves in the USA
Paris Commune (1871)
8Photomontage during the Paris Commune (1871)
First World War (1914-1918)
9Propaganda during the First World War (1914-1918)
10U.S. Army: Analysis of why photographs were censored during the First World War (1926)
1930s
11Arthur Rothstein: Cow skull in the Badlands
12Portugal 1934: Photomontage as propaganda
13The alteration of the truth in Soviet Russia
14El Lissitzky (Graphic design and photomontages): Album dedicated to the 15th anniversary of the creation of the RKKA - Russian: Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (1934)
15John Heartfield: Political photomontages
16Alexander Zhitomirsky: Political photomontages
17AIZ - Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung
18Marinus: Anti-Nazi political photomontage in France
19Hoshino Tatsuo (ed): Shina Jihen Shashin Zenshu (1937-1940)
Leni Riefenstahl and the creation of myth
20Leni Riefenstahl: The creation of the myths of National Socialism
21Leni Riefenstahl: Day of Freedom (1935)
22Leni Riefenstahl: Triumph of the Will (1935)
Second World War (1939-1945)
23The photographic portrayal of Adolf Hitler
24Heinrich Hoffmann: Portraits of Adolf Hitler
25Adolf Hitler - Nazi propaganda series
26Heinrich Hoffmann (Editor) & Josef Bürckel (Foreword): Hitler holt die Saar heim (1938)
27A question of emotional interpretation: People of Cheb salute the German troops entering the town in the Anschluss of the Sudetenland (October 1938)
28Otto Schönstein (Raumbild Albums): Vienna, the pearl of the Reich (1941)
29Winston Churchill - Wanted for incitement to Murder
30Teresa Zarnower: Obrona Warszawy - The defense of Warsaw (1942-1945)
31Walker Evans: Alabama, Greensboro
32United States. Office of Facts and Figures.: This man is your friend - He fights for Freedom (1942)
33SSgt Louis R. Lowery: First Flag Raising on Iwo Jima (23 February 1945)
34Joe Rosenthal: Flag raising at Iwo Jima (23 February 1945)
35Yevgeny Khaldei: Soldiers raising the flag of Soviet Union on the roof of Reichstag building in Berlin (2 May 1945)
China
36Propaganda in Communist China
Falklands War
37Falklands War / Malvinas War (1982): The Sinking of the ARA General Belgrano
Iraq War (2003-2011)
38Justification for the Iraq War (2003-2011)
39Iraq War (2003-2011): Abu Ghraib
Propaganda and American politicians
40Donald Trump
41Ivanka Trump - #UnwantedIvanka
Conclusions
42Conclusions on propaganda

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