Studio 360 Published by Studio 360 Slideshow: WALTZ WITH BASHIR, UTN1, LEIBOVITZ, PHOTOSHOP DETECTIVE “Waltz with Bashir” is a new animated documentary directed by Ari Folman. (Ari Folman and David Polonsky, ©2008, Courtesty of Sony Pictures Classics. All Rights Reserved.) In 1982 Folman was a 19 year old infantry soldier in the Israel Defense Forces. “Waltz with Bashir” is based his experiences during the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre. (Ari Folman and David Polonsky, © 2008, Courtesty of Sony Pictures Classics. All Rights Reserved.) The film takes its title from a scene in which the commander of Folman's infantry unit grabs a heavy machine gun and “dances an insane waltz” between walls hung with posters of Lebanese militia commander Bashir Gemayel. (Ari Folman and David Polonsky, © 2008, Courtesty of Sony Pictures Classics. All Rights Reserved.) To create the story, Folman gathered testimonies from fellow war veterans to supplement his own recollections. (Ari Folman and David Polonsky, © 2008, Courtesty of Sony Pictures Classics. All Rights Reserved.) “Waltz with Bashir” is an exploration of war and memory, and the long-term impacts of violence on young soldiers. (Ari Folman and David Polonsky, © 2008, Courtesty of Sony Pictures Classics. All Rights Reserved.) UTN1 (Unknown to No One) formed in Baghdad in 1999 and are, from left, Shant Gharabedian, Art Haroutounian, Hassan Ali Al-Falluji, Akhlad Raof, and Nadeem Hamid. (UTN1) UTN1 on the set of their video, “While We Can.” (UTN1) UTN1 on the “While We Can ” set, much of which resembles a war-torn city. (UTN1) Inside the photographer's studio: the board in her office where Annie Leibovitz reviews her work, including shots of Meryl Streep, Demi Moore, and her daughter Sarah. (Emily Frost) At her West Village studio, Annie Leibovitz and Kurt Andersen discuss Liebovitz's newest book, “Annie Leibovitz At Work.” (Emily Frost) Leibovitz at her studio, surrounded by work from her latest Vanity Fair shoot of Cate Blanchett. (Emily Frost) Annie Leibovitz and Kurt Andersen look back at their first encounter, when she photographed Kurt and his Spy Magazine co-founders for a Barney's ad. (Emily Frost) An array of some of Annie Leibovitz's favorite family photos. (Emily Frost) This nearly iconic portrait of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is a composite of Lincoln's head and the Southern politician John Calhoun's body. Putting the date of this image into context, note that the first permanent photographic image was created in 1826 and the Eastman Dry Plate Company (later to become Eastman Kodak) was created in 1881. (Hany Farid) Stalin routinely air-brushed his enemies out of photographs. In this photograph a commissar was removed from the original photograph after falling out of favor with Stalin. (Courtsey Hany Farid) This digitally altered photograph of OJ Simpson appeared on the cover of Time magazine in 1994, shortly after Simpson's arrest for murder. This photograph was manipulated from the original mug-shot that appeared, unaltered, on the cover of Newsweek. Time magazine was subsequently accused of manipulating the photograph to make Simpson appear “darker” and “menacing.” (Hany Farid) This digital composite of a British soldier in Basra, gesturing to Iraqi civilians urging them to seek cover, appeared on the front page of the Los Angeles Times shortly after the U.S. led invasion of Iraq in 2003. Brian Walski, a staff photographer for the Los Angeles Times and a 30-year veteran of the news business, was fired after his editors discovered that he had combined two of his photographs to “improve” the composition. (Hany Farid) of Post a Comment