Looking at it today, we see an individual photographer claiming a place within the story of the assassination just as my parents did with their classroom memories.
But, unlike these other three television stills which frame out the television, this photograph draws attention to it.
The photograph treats a television image as if it were a family snapshot. For me, this picture encapsulates that too. The fact that my parents have stories of the assassination, not to mention that they are remarkably similar, speaks to how overlapped public and personal memory are. Our national memory of the assassination today is a tangle of those personal stories and common viewership. households tuned in to television coverage that weekend. And it came even closer in subsequent days when Americans were a nation brought together by viewing– 96% of U.S. Those located experiences brought the assassination close to home. You already know the cliché: baby boomers remember exactly where they were when they heard the news of President Kennedy’s assassination (my mom was in band practice in West Virginia, my dad in Algebra class in Iowa). – Judd Rose, Nightline, November 22, 1988 “If you don’t come to Dealey Plaza this year, then the assassination is very much as it was 25 years ago: Reality framed by a television set.” If this seems naïve or quaint in comparison to social media and personal photography today, this “mediation of mediation” speaks to the myriad ways in which people have long navigated personal and public identities through available visual technologies. Like selfies today, aesthetics matter little as the picture locates the funeral coverage within a domestic space in order to proclaim the photographer’s presence at this historic event.
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What a distinctive act, in this nascent moment of television news, for this anonymous photographer to stand in a living room and point a camera at a tv set.
Slightly off center, the television sits on a metal stand with wallpaper barely visible in the background. The photographer navigates several layers of mediation to get a clear picture of marines carrying the flag-draped coffin. Someone stood in their living room pointing their camera at the television in order to take a photograph of the live coverage of Kennedy’s funeral. Unidentified photographer, November 24, 1963. You can find credits for each scholar at the bottom of each post. The anonymous photos, from the International Center for Photography, were published for the first time. Here is a link to the whole series. The images come from this unique set of photographs published at the New Yorker PhotoBooth three weeks ago. We invited a group of distinguished visual scholars to provide us with a brief response to photographs from November 1963. This is the last of three posts dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination.
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