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Project 4: Lumpenproletariat
The "Lumpenproletariat" is a word stemming from the German word "lump" which denotes scabs, rag, canker, sore, and scoundrel. Its connotations include a series of "undesirable" members of a society, and these lumpens are portrayed as the "undeserving poor" to be utilized as a source of an argument for the pro-capitalistic agendas.
This photograph in particular presents the photographer himself in the traditional proletariat aesthetic; the motorcycle jacket, the unbuttoned shirt, the messy hair even with the use of pomade, and the hand-rolled cigarette. Originally, cigarettes were created by the proletariat as they scrapped up the left-over tobacco from the cigars of the bourgeoisie, and the cigarette smoke sets the real-yet-dry tone of this photograph. The partisans of the Lumpenproletariat class are then written all over the photograph in specific words that are used to label them to provoke a level of discomfort amongst the audience, mimicking the same discomfort that the audience feels when they interact with a lumpenproletariat in their everyday lives. The figure of the image consists of two overlays of movement and stillness; this screening process visualizes the duality that lies between the reality the lumpenproletariat have to live and the reality of the prejudices against them.
Project 4: Lumpenproletariat
The "Lumpenproletariat" is a word stemming from the German word "lump" which denotes scabs, rag, canker, sore, and scoundrel. Its connotations include a series of "undesirable" members of a society, and these lumpens are portrayed as the "undeserving poor" to be utilized as a source of an argument for the pro-capitalistic agendas.
This photograph in particular presents the photographer himself in the traditional proletariat aesthetic; the motorcycle jacket, the unbuttoned shirt, the messy hair even with the use of pomade, and the hand-rolled cigarette. Originally, cigarettes were created by the proletariat as they scrapped up the left-over tobacco from the cigars of the bourgeoisie, and the cigarette smoke sets the real-yet-dry tone of this photograph. The partisans of the Lumpenproletariat class are then written all over the photograph in specific words that are used to label them to provoke a level of discomfort amongst the audience, mimicking the same discomfort that the audience feels when they interact with a lumpenproletariat in their everyday lives. The figure of the image consists of two overlays of movement and stillness; this screening process visualizes the duality that lies between the reality the lumpenproletariat have to live and the reality of the prejudices against them.