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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Family photographs"”.
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Collecting Collects: The Family Photograph in the British Newspaper
… of the complex categories of private and public photographs through the study of the usage and treatment of the 'family photograph' in British national newspapers. It draws on an ethnographic approach of finding, collecting and archiving examples of family photographs in the newspaper between …
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A wounded surface : dissolving the human form
… engage memories and stories mined from my family photographs, while also located in an experience of illness in my own body. Rather than directly illustrate these events, I have engaged with associated emotional states, such as feelings of loss, fear and uncertainty. My concerns are …
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The Givens-Theus Archive: Collection Management, Memory, and Narrative
Using personal narrative through family photographs and ephemera, this thesis will analyze the process of creating a family archive, collection care, and genealogy. This paper focuses on over 400 photographs and pieces of ephemera from the Givens-Theus Archive I created. I rehomed, digitized, and …
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Stay in Touch
… By embroidering images from my collection of family photographs I emphasize the tactile and ephemeral nature of memory and the photographic object. In working with family history and personal memory I am considering the gradual disappearance of my own history. Through repetitious acts of …
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Pencils of Light: Family, Photography, and Performance
… and viewer is most often explored within the family unit. Ritualized family performances are those events where a family narrative is written photographically. This study explores this family dynamic of photography and performance through autobiographic reference to the author's own familial …
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“Fotos y recuerdos” : decolonial ephemera strategies in twenty-first century Latina literature
… their works, varying from paper dolls to family photographs to shopping lists. Whether depicted visually on the page or included through narrative plot, these authors build alternative archives from racialized and gendered ephemera, thereby elevating the intimate—and often …
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Simulacra : constructing narrative in the studio tableau
… narrative is constructed to tell stories of my family, and of myself, in a way that openly stresses the playful, mythical, and fictional nature of such narratives in the family and in history. These narratives are not always easily recognisable, believable, or unified, and are read through an …
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Encruzilhadas de um museu íntimo: afrografias da memória e fabulações críticas em fotos de família no Acervo da Laje, Subúrbio Ferroviário de Salvador
… focusing on interactions with photopaintings and photographs in the Acervo da Laje, a neighborhood in the Subúrbio Ferroviário of Salvador, Brazil. Drawing on concepts such as afrografias and critical fabulation, it examines how family photographs and artistic practices engage with the …
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Pictures on the wall of my life : photographs to life writing to fiction, an ekphrastic journey
… of writing a novel with its starting point in family photographs. It consists of the novel itself in latest draft form as well as a theoretical commentary on the writing of it. The particular focus for discussion is how the visual informs the written text and how the visual and verbal together …
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The Role of Dress in the Embodiment and Articulation of Chinese Diaspora Identity in the UK
… semi-structured interviews with analysis of family photographs and Chinese garments and jewellery in personal wardrobes. This British Chinese case study complements research on UK ethnic minority dress practices, and extends the growing work on Chinese diaspora dress worldwide. Dress is a key …
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Unseen Motherhood
<p><em>Unseen Motherhood</em> is a series of photographs that shows what first-time motherhood is really like, starting with pregnancy and going through birth and everything after. I did not want to just show the happy or perfect moments. I wanted to capture the hard parts, the big feelings, and …
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Memory As First Breath: Critiquing and Disrupting the Lingering Politics of Memory of the Francoist Regime Through an Artistic Practice Involving a Personal Archive of Photographs
… these through a personal archive, which contains family photographs spanning three generations (from 1950 to 2000), makes it possible to identify how autobiographical narratives and affects underpin the transmission of a troubled past. I argue that these personal accounts constitute …
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More than an apartheid loss : recovering and remembering Fairview, a 'lost' Group Areas history
… is remembered through oral histories, family photographs and memory maps, alongside archival, media and literary representations of the area at the time. I demonstrate that despite the forced removals of its residents and the physical destruction of a neighbourhood, Fairview continues …
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Isitya esihle (asidleli)
… in the area. I unpack my life story through the family photo album. I elaborate on the absence of family photographs and how this has enabled me to find imaginative ways of retelling my past. I expand on how the community has mostly been represented, through journalistic reports, often presenting …
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Gazing at the family: archives, performance and Portuguese photography (1940-1975)
… PhD thesis investigates photographic family archives and makes critical interpretations of them using performance photography. The two family’s albums contain hundreds of photographs that belonged to my grandparents and represent a period in Portugal’s past (1940-1975) scarred by one …
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Picturing the unspeakable: Trauma, memory, and visuality in contemporary comics
… moves from superheroes to 9/11to epilepsy to family photographs, and from America to France to Rwanda, showing the ways in which comics’ juxtapositions of words and images, past, present, and future, and presence and absence, create possibilities for representing trauma and memory. It is …