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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Social Documentary"”.
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Japanese Photographic Documentation of Jewish Refugees in Kobe in 1941 in the Context of 1930s Social Documentary Photography
… 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 through comparison of ‘Displaced Jews’ with other period photos of refugees, in particular early 20th century …
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Visualising the migrant’s experience : one woman’s story
… from Turkey as an interpreter. Affected by the social and emotional isolation experienced by many of the women I came across, I wanted to document their experience. Recognising the limitations of my previous visual style, I sought to develop photographic practices that would do justice to the …
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A Cinematic Dialogue between Nicaragua and Costa Rica: Shaping a Transnational Cinema through Filmic Exchanges
… Producción Cinematográfica (CCPC) privileged the social documentary format of the New Latin American Cinema (NLAC) movement to critically view current events from 1973 to 1979. By analyzing a variety of Costa Rican and Nicaraguan films, primarily documentaries, from 1973 to 1983, and by referring …
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Witness: An Artist’s Journey Into The Past
<p>This thesis as a social documentary, using images to provoke awareness of the emotions of children, their lives during the 15-year old Civil War that was in Liberia, West Africa. This thesis will visually explore different timelines, the past, the present and the future of children depicted. In …
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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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lily [bloom in my darkness]: an electroacoustic opera
… from displacement. Using recorded language as social documentary, sensors as portals to the unconscious, improvisation as a reflection non-linguistic expression, and other forms of machine listening and live processing, Lily is as much a retelling of a particular emotional story as it is the …
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Social Change and Documentary Film in Mexico: Violence, Autonomy, and Cultural Production
… use of Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and other social media in the Arab Spring, #Occupy Wall Street, and Mexico's #YoSoy132 student movement have all generated excitement about the new uses of digital technology in organized social movements. This dissertation concerns itself with media and …
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Ghost workers: contemporary French documentary filmmaking in the global age
In recent years, French documentary filmmakers have recorded the impact globalization has had on their society; the corpus presented here gives evidence of a shared effort to question the political and ideological affiliations of a practice largely committed to leftist ideals throughout most of the …
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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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Secular séance: Post-Victorian embodiment in contemporary South African art
… these works insist on the incapacity of mimetic, social documentary forms to contain the sustained ferocious absurdity of subjective experience in a "post - traumatic", "post - colonial", "post - apartheid" culture. The "post" in these terms does not denote a concession to sequential logic or …
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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 …