The gaze and image manipulation: Philosophies, pedagogies and arts practice

The potential of manipulated photographic images for synthesizing and integrating creative responses is enormous. Issues of truth and non-truth in lens based arts practice resonate strongly with students and the coexistence of visual, semiotic and technological literacies provides new challenges for upper secondary and tertiary educators in photography, art, film and television. This visual text by two Australian secondary school arts educators explores some of these issues in relation to the work of an Australian photo-media artist. It is underpinned by Sontag and Feury's theories of the photographic gaze.