{"id":959,"date":"2010-03-29T21:03:28","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T21:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=959"},"modified":"2010-03-29T21:03:28","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T21:03:28","slug":"more-on-crossfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=959","title":{"rendered":"More on Crossfire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I posted about the exhibition &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=950\" target=\"_blank\">Crossfire<\/a>&#8216; at the <em>Drik Gallery<\/em> in Bangladesh which was barricaded by armed police and the public refused entry. Now on <em>Shaidul News<\/em> you can read<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shahidulnews.com\/2010\/03\/drik-photo-power\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent Link: Drik: Photo power\">Drik: Photo  power<\/a> an illustrated article about this with pictures of the opening of the show in the road outside the gallery and a demonstration against the censorship by <em>Satish Sharma <\/em>which first appeared in <a href=\"http:\/\/himalmag.com\/Drik_fnw30.html\">Himal Magazine.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The original article in Himal Magazine is easier to read and there are more pictures in the slide-shows there. In it, Sharma discusses several cases of censorship and ask what it is about the photograph that invites censure and censorship.<\/p>\n<p>Those in power fear the power of the photograph and seek to control it. It is a power that comes in part from its status as evidence, at least apparently a very direct stating of the facts, but perhaps even more from the way it can seize our emotions, more directly than writing.\u00a0 The still photograph by crystallising a moment more directly than film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I posted about the exhibition &#8216;Crossfire&#8216; at the Drik Gallery in Bangladesh which was barricaded by armed police and the public refused entry. Now on Shaidul News you can read Drik: Photo power an illustrated article about this with pictures of the opening of the show in the road outside the gallery and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=959\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More on Crossfire<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-issues","category-political-issues"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}