The 1st thing I wrote for the public was about a Roman practice later termed by historians 'damnatio memoriae' ("damnation of memory"). I did this following the news that images of Hosni Mubarak were banned in Egypt in 2011 during the Arab Spring. 2/10https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/15/opinion/15bond.html …
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As I point out in the op-ed, removal or desecration of political figures in artwork has a long & sordid history. A potent early example is found in ancient Egypt, a fact underscored in the "Striking Power" exhibition I attended last yr
@pulitzerarts: https://pulitzerarts.org/exhibition/striking-power/ … 3/10.pic.twitter.com/T8sL7cDWws
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The exhibition looked at the modified legacies of kings Hatshepsut (reigned ca. 1478–1458 BCE) & Akhenaten (r. ca. 1353–1336 BCE), and then the later desecration of objects by Christians in Late Antiquity. Erasures occurred against images & inscriptions for various reasons. 4/10pic.twitter.com/A94thsc3dK
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As I wrote on for Forbes when reviewing an exhibition
@britishmuseum, memory sanctions were also a part of Roman political policies, esp. during the Empire. https://www.forbes.com/sites/drsarahbond/2017/04/11/how-do-you-damn-the-memory-of-a-roman-emperor/#1197115b49b2 … Princeton historian Harriet Flower calls this the "art of forgetting." 5/10https://uncpress.org/book/9780807871881/the-art-of-forgetting/ …Prikaži ovu nit -
The point of some memory sanctions in Roman antiquity is often, you could reconstruct who was erased and why. That is the case with the famed Severan tondo that has Geta erased. https://www.flickr.com/photos/carolemage/13543792233 … Others you couldn't, like this inscription erasing Domitian
@pennmuseum 6/10pic.twitter.com/ymCyrLvnfs
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There are many examples into the Medieval period, but I will fast forward to the trust we place in the medium of photography. During The Great Terror (ot Great Purges) of 1936-8, Stalin had photographic retouchers hard at work to reshape the narrative 7/10 http://www.openculture.com/2017/08/long-before-photoshop-the-soviets-mastered-the-art-of-erasing-people-from-photographs-and-history-too.html …pic.twitter.com/isEOVPpji1
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Hitler, Mussolini, Lenin & Mao all employed photo editing to prop up their own political propaganda & to have agency over the historical narrative. Probably the most famous is Hitler removing Joseph Goebbels from a 1937 photo (below). 8/10 See
@metmuseum: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpublications/Faking_It_Manipulated_Photography_before_Photoshop …pic.twitter.com/ec075TgQ6f
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The National Archives' mission is to "drive openness, cultivate public participation, and strengthen our nation’s democracy through public access to high-value government records." https://www.archives.gov/about/info/mission … But as
@kawulf & others have pointed to: This mission is at risk. 9/10Prikaži ovu nit -
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@KevinMKruse & other#twitterstorians go to Twitter to correct historical misconceptions or untruths is b/c abuse of history is widespread (as@JoeHeim demonstrated!). To paraphrase Orwell, we cannot now let the lie become the truth in@USNatArchives or elsewhere. 10/10Prikaži ovu nit -
Update: A mea culpa was just issued by the
@USNatArchives— but is it enough? How will new policies be put into place to bar this from occcurring in the future? A good first step, but it never should have been an issue. https://twitter.com/usnatarchives/status/1218613271927906305?s=21 …https://twitter.com/USNatArchives/status/1218613271927906305 …
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on the long history of modifying images for political purposes and of state sponsored iconoclasm. Let's address why it is problematic that the