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Showing 1 to 20 of 116 for “"Photographers"”.
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Mother/photographers
… and study of the particular genre of Mother/Photographers who have used their families as subject matter. 4) A slide/lecture on the subject of Mother/Photographers presented in conjunction with a panel discussion on Nurturance and Ambition, April 22, 1981 at the Creative Photography …
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Armour and Lace: Women Photographers in Nineteenth-Century Institutions
… as well as photographs made by women photographers documenting other institutional collections. This significant corpus of photographs indicates that women not only played a role in the formation of institutional photographic collections, but also that institutional photography was a …
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Visual humor : female photographers and modern American womanhood, 1860-1915
… and mostly unpublished works of prominent female photographers, this dissertation unveils a gendered commentary on humor and popular culture representations of women. Hannah Maynard, Frances Benjamin Johnston, and Anne Brigman tactfully work to cultivate a public persona that contradicts and …
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Interartistic Tendencies and Performativity in the Works of Three Women Photographers
… several—initially amateur and later professional—photographers who, however, experimented with other art forms in their photographic oeuvre in order to make the art of photography a more distinct form of expression. In my thesis, I would like to investigate the interartistic aspect in the works of …
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A Pioneering Legacy: Early Women Photographers of Great Britain and Ireland, 1839 -1861
… thesis documents the activities of early women photographers in Great Britain and Ireland between 1839 and 1861, exploring their contributions to photography and wider impact within mid nineteenth-century society. New research confirms key women actors situated within the early development of …
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Exposing New Guinea: The early photographers, W. G. Lawes and J. W. Lindt
This thesis explores the early photographic representation of southeast New Guinea through a close examination of the lives and work of two of the first Europeans to fix the region and its inhabitants on glass plate negatives. It has been acknowledged that the London Missionary Society missionary …
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Exposing New Guinea: The early photographers, W. G. Lawes and J. W. Lindt
This thesis explores the early photographic representation of southeast New Guinea through a close examination of the lives and work of two of the first Europeans to fix the region and its inhabitants on glass plate negatives. It has been acknowledged that the London Missionary Society missionary …
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A Web of Connections: How Early Twentieth-Century American Women Writers and Photographers Situated a New Way of Seeing
… and influences between American male photographers and writers, this study examines the lesser known and understudied collaborations and connections between early, twentieth-century American women photographers and writers, beginning around the end of the nineteenth century and …
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Transformations of photography in Japan (1990-1999)
… in Japan via the new generation of young female photographers who emerged during the social, economic and political shifts of the post-bubble era (1990–1999). This new generation of photographers initiated a paradigmatic shift in photographic discourses within Japanese culture by becoming the …
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Enhancement and stylization of photographs
… camera may be the final product for many casual photographers. However, for professional photographers, this photograph is only the beginning: experts often spend hours on enhancing and stylizing their photographs. These enhancements range from basic exposure and contrast adjustments to dramatic …
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Appalachia on Repeat: A Critical Investigation of the Photographic Representation of an American Region
… 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 photographers …
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Women and the Practice of Studio Portraiture in Britain 1888 – 1914: Politics, Commerce and Constructions of Femininity
… gap in scholarship, namely the absence of women photographers in social histories of photography, and the lack of attention paid to commercial photography within feminist accounts of the medium’s history. I draw out the social, political and cultural significance of women’s portraits of women …
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Strategies of representation: South African photography of the HIV epidemic
This thesis is concerned with how South African photographers have responded to the HIV epidemic. The focus is on the different visual, political and intellectual strategies that photographers have used to document the disease and the complex issues that surround it. The study considers the work of …
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South African Jazz in Frame: A creative research project exploring South African jazz through photography
… African jazz musicians and South African jazz photographers through their contributions such as the images, videos and the stories behind each of the respective art forms. The research looks at the specific contributions selected photographers have made to the South African jazz genre, in …
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Beyond the frame : a liminal space in contemporary South African photography
… a new current in the medium of photography; photographers who had been documenting the 'struggle' were suddenly deprived of the central focus of their work. Creative artistic expression, which had been largely restricted, blossomed. This paper examines four of South Africa's 'new generation' …
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Defamiliarising the Familiar: The Distorted Body in Photography
… reasoning for why surrealist and contemporary photographers distort the human body, the technical considerations of photographic distortions have been under-represented in photographic studies. This research is critical of the lack of understanding such techniques. The research on visual …
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Beyond Photojournalism: Constraints and Contradictions in Hostile Environments
… function of photography and the performance of photographers working under restricted circumstances, by focusing on the controversies they have to handle in a hostile environment. In particular, by thoroughly studying the case of North Korea I concentrate on the impacts of<br/>censorship and …
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The unwritten edit : gatekeeping images of diversity in higher education
… aims to understand the role of university photographers and the institutional expectations for them to produce diverse photographs, as well as to explore perceived pressures the photographers may feel. Institutional expectations include depicting racial and gender diversity, showing …
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Portraits of buildings
… This is a study of certain artists, and photographers who have broadened the concept of documentation of architecture. Photographic documents provide factual information as well as personal attitudes and expressive statements. The personal observations of artist/photographers are vital to …
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