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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Portrait photography"”.
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Computational illumination for portrait photography and inverse graphics
… with manual ground truth annotations. For many photography or inverse graphics applications however, manual annotation of ground truth labels is not viable. Motivated by this, the research presented in this thesis proposes several portable hardware prototypes that enable the collection of …
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A Stylistic Analysis of American Indian Portrait Photography in Oklahoma, 1869-1904
This thesis studies the style of Native American portrait photographs of William S. Soule (1836-1908), John K. Hillers (1834-1925), and William E. Irwin (1871-1935), who worked in Oklahoma from 1869 to 1904. The examination of the three men's work revealed that each artist had different motivations …
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From Typologies to Portraits: Catherine Opie's Photographic Manipulations of Physiognomic Imagery
… Opie's Being and Having series (1991) and her Portrait series (1993-1996) parody the constraining binary gender discourse and stereotypes that emanate from it. In her art Opie uses familiar codes and identity discourses associated with traditional portrait photography and typological …
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“Women of Allah” and “The Book of Kings:” Shirin Neshat’s Narratives of Returning Home
… past state of home with its current state using portrait photography and poetry. Twenty years later, another political event in Iran reminded her of the condition of the exilic life and her trauma. This time, she restores the past when visualizing a potential future for her country, the condition …
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The Value of Everything is Nothing
<p>Photography was my introduction into art. I gravitated toward portrait photography fairly quickly. I found the interaction between subject and photographer to be an intense moment in time. I began to push that intensity - through various non-traditional approaches, such as placing ads in the …
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A Media Archaeology of Technologies of Enchantment
… about the place, status and meaning of photography was part of a broader instability in science and theological thinking during this period characterised by preoccupation with the production and acquisition of material objects and of progress. Photography’s beginnings, and even how to …
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“An American Sun Shines Brighter”: Art, Science, and the American Reinvention of Photography
<p>When and where was photography invented? Received knowledge tells us that a few European men of distinction invented the medium sometime around 1839. This dissertation de-centers this origin story to include the United States, where artisans, chemists, and instrument-makers effectively …
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Reversing The Weapons: Recuperating the marginalised body with performative photography
… collaboration, and transgressive humour in photography. Supporting research involves theoretical discourses around the gaze, the invisibility of marginalised bodies, and social media as the 21st century panopticon. The work activates the disobedient female body defined as “grotesque” through …
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Intimation of life : photographic portraiture in art
… of their social world through the genre of portraiture. However, in attempting to make known the lives of those around them, portraitists encounter a range of complexities inherent in the representation of the human subject in a two-dimensional visual field. Portraits were initially an …
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Controlled shadow in photography : the development of a technique for child portraiture
… for the Degree of Master of Applied Arts in Photography, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2017.
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“Peruvian Chusco”: Promoviendo la diversidad canina mediante el retrato fotográfico callejero.
Este proyecto busca dar protagonismo a los perros callejeros, humanizándolos a través del retrato fotográfico, con la finalidad de generar reflexión e interés por la vida y condición de estos vecinos citadinos. Peruvian Chusco demuestra como el retrato es también una herramienta sumamente efectiva …
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Performing photographs: memory, history, and display
In my study, I place concepts and practices of photography and performance in dialogue to enable our understanding of how photographs perform and how performance contains or can contain elements we attribute to photographs. The connection between photography and performance that most intrigues me …