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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Documentary Photography"”.
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<i>Relative Poverty</i>: Documentary photography, public engagement and making change
This thesis argues for a rehabilitation of documentary photography’s role in advocating for social change. It outlines my practice-led rethinking of concerns first highlighted by Allan Sekula and Martha Rosler in the late 1970s and early 1980s. These concerns can be summarised as the usefulness of …
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DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY AND CURATORIAL PRACTICE IN THE UNITED STATES, 1902-1967
<p>Documentary photography has been a historically difficult medium to define. Is it art, or journalism or somewhere in between? Over time, the medium has undergone several redefinitions as photography became more accessible to the masses through technological advances, and its inclusion in museum …
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Social skin : initiation through the bodily transformation of four South African women : an exploration using documentary photography
… work is the relationship of the subject to the documentary process. I hope both to raise questions and also provide some answers concerning how the means of signification functions for the subjects. As the photographer of their transformation process, I am positioned as an outsider in their …
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Japanese Photographic Documentation of Jewish Refugees in Kobe in 1941 in the Context of 1930s Social Documentary Photography
… of the Osaka-based Tampei Shashin Kurabu (Tampei Photography Club), led by Yasui Nakaji. My thesis addresses how these photographs can be read in the context of 1930’s social documentary photography and how they are innovative in terms of the representation of refugees. It explores these matters …
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Appalachia on Repeat: A Critical Investigation of the Photographic Representation of an American Region
… Appalachia has been documented by myriad documentary photographers since the 1960s, and a specific and repetitive visual narrative has emerged from their resulting publications. Taking an integrative approach combining image analysis, archive/historical research, and interviews with …
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The politics of the office: space, power, and photography
… examines the relation between power, space, and photography, in relation to the office. It aims to investigate working conditions in service-based society, by addressing its dominant form of work: office work. Based on the hypothesis that office space has an effect on how office workers are made …
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Interpretations of the Politics of Fictive Landscapes in Context: A Comparison of Allan Sekula's Sketch on a Geography Lesson and Martha Rosler's In the Place of the Public Airport Series
… they question the legitimacy of the genre of documentary photography within the post-modern age by emphasizing the documentation of an actual physical place, presenting an alternative to the post-modern notion of photograph merely as another component of simulacra, or the intentional creation …
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Visualising the migrant’s experience : one woman’s story
… beyond the conventions and limitations of social documentary photography by drawing on the research methodologies of social science. The main output from the research is a portfolio of visual work that aims to enhance understanding of the migrant community from Turkey in UK. During the course of …
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"Documenting" East Texas: Spirit of Place in the Photography of Keith Carter
… contribute to, and expand traditions in American documentary photography established in the 1930s. These traditions include the representation of a specific geographic place that evokes the spirit of a time and place, and the ability to communicate to a viewer certain social conditions and values …
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Catherine Opie's Domestic Series
… Catherine Opie combines portraiture and documentary photography in her photographic series titled Domestic. At the center of this series lies the idea of community and the question of how community is constructed, a theme which unites Opie’s seemingly disparate bodies of work. Domestic …
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The Face of Labor: Portrats of Working People
… usual retirement age of sixty-two, this photo documentary celebrates these individuals and their contributions to society. The exhibition of seventeen original black and white photographs, taken by Victoria Sheridan in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1999, is accompanied by written selections of …
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One lens three views
… in various narrative styles within the genre of documentary photography. The authorphotographer acknowledges their subjective contribution in the image making process, and uses this understanding to demonstrate a continuum of subjectivity that operates depending on the visual narrative being …
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After the Renaissance: Art and Harlem in the 1960s
… exhibitions, abstract painting and sculpture, photography, and printmaking—it examines how and why the decade’s struggles for racial justice prompted African American and Puerto Rican artists to engage Harlem in their work. For artists like Romare Bearden, William T. Williams, Melvin Edwards, …
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NAVIGATING THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT: READING BERENICE ABBOTT’S CHANGING NEW YORK
… demonstrate how Abbott’s particular adherence to documentary photography allowed her to transcribe the urban metamorphosis. Turning to the scholarship of Peter Barr, I expand on his ideas regarding Abbott’s artistic relationship to the architectural and urban planning theories of Lewis Mumford and …
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In/Between: Phillipi Photographed
… I also look at the shifting understanding of documentary photography in South Africa, and my position within its' traditions. Making the photobook In/between allowed me the opportunity to explore photography as a tool for self-reflection and pursuing my own understanding of the world around …
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In and out of the mist: an artistic investigation of borderland and community.
… is to initiate a new artistic approach, with photography as a medium and an artistic form of investigation, into the borderland and community that exists from Western China to the Himalayan Region, in order to distinguish it from traditional documentary photography. The borderland exists as an …
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Nowhere people: making the invisible, visible
… presents a critical examination of my work as a documentary photographer, focusing on the long-term project Nowhere People (2005-2016). It reveals as well the impact statelessness has on individuals and communities around the world. Given the interdisciplinary nature of this topic, the statement …
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small (nation) stories Raymond Williams, documentary and social experience in Wales.
This practice-based thesis uses documentary photography to explore processes of social change within communities in Wales. It focuses on my fieldwork, undertaken with the fraternal organisation Loyal Order of Moose (LOOM), offering insight into a significant but under-researched historical …
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Blood, death and desert: engaging with radical theology through art practice, history, and theory
… comprising both constructed and documentary photography, combined with interdisciplinary research into art history, contemporary Evangelical Christian visual culture, the art and landscape of the Great Basin and American West, Christian iconographies, theology, and various strands …
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Community Photography: Radicalism and a Culture of Protest in the London-based Photography Collectives of the 1970s
‘Community photography’ in the London-based photography collectives was born of the social and political conditions in Britain in the 1970s. It drew impetus from protest within the Women’s Liberation Movement, and experience from political campaigns on childcare, sub-standard housing, the …
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