Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"history of photography"”.
-
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 …
-
The Visual Syntax of a Postcolony: Photographs in Zambia, 1930s – 1980s
… the political, cultural and performative demands of the project of postcolonial nation building in Zambia. Drawing on both visual and textual materials from the 1930s to the 1980s, collected from the National Archives of Zambia as well as several private collections, including that of the Fine Art …
-
On actino-chemical reactions: J.F.W. Herschel’s photographic spectra with botanical matter
… interpreted as an unsuccessful attempt to colour photography. This interpretation was derived from what survived in the archives — Herschel’s anthotypes — and what did not — his botanical spectra. A substantial, albeit fragmented, body of experimental records is held in several archives, …
-
Women and the Practice of Studio Portraiture in Britain 1888 – 1914: Politics, Commerce and Constructions of Femininity
… Britain, specifically the commercial practice of studio portraiture. It addresses a 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 …
-
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 …
-
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 …
-
Unjoyful Laughter and the Non-Likeness of Photographic Portraiture
… non-mimetic images. It uses the portrait of laughter in theory and in practice to explore a ´non-like´, iconic relation between a photograph and its model. In opposition to portraying a specific laughing sitter, here the photograph is more informed by what the viewer brings to his or her …
-
A Pioneering Legacy: Early Women Photographers of Great Britain and Ireland, 1839 -1861
The early history of photography in Great Britain and Ireland frequently presents as a predominantly male activity, amateur or professional, with sporadic reference to a limited number of women practitioners. This obscures a large cohort of women who participated in photography from its inception, …
-
Strategies of representation: South African photography of the HIV epidemic
… that surround it. The study considers the work of all South African photographers who have produced a comprehensive body of work on HIV and AIDS. This includes both published and unpublished work. The analysis of the photographic work is situated in relation to other histories including the …
-
Activity and Activism: Lewis and Nathan Clark and the Evolution of Sierra Club Photography, 1924-1961
Using the photography of Sierra Club members Lewis and Nathan Clark, this thesis explores the relationship between image and landscape in the rise of outdoor recreation in early and mid twentieth century America. Focusing on the role of photography in the construction, articulation, and …
-
The Flight of the Sankofa Bird; Paul Strand’s Ghana; An African Portrait, The Fellowship of Man and the Idea of Africa
… Gold Coast was an important West African colony of the British Empire.1 By 1963, when Strand, then an older statesman of modern photography, made his second of three trips to photograph Africa, the Gold Coast had become Ghana, the first independent democratic nation on the continent.2 In contrast …
-
Armour and Lace: Women Photographers in Nineteenth-Century Institutions
… number includes photographs made in the museum’s photography studio by the museum’s first woman Official Museum Photographer, as well as photographs made by women photographers documenting other institutional collections. This significant corpus of photographs indicates that women not only played …
-
Fashioning Brazil: Globalization and the Representation of Brazilian Dress in National Geographic
… in 1888, has positioned itself as a voice of authority within mainstream American print media, offering what purports to be an unprejudiced ‘window onto the world’. Previous scholarship has been quick to call attention to the magazine’s participation in an imperialist representational …
-
Thomas Struth's Museum Photographs and the Textual Experience of Photography
Thomas Struth's museum photographs are pictures of people in museums looking at paintings. In each of these photographs, Struth exposes a relationship between a depicted art work and its audience. Struth captures a moment in which the museum visitors repeat the form of the painting at which they …
-
Exposing New Guinea: The early photographers, W. G. Lawes and J. W. Lindt
… 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 William G. …
-
Exposing New Guinea: The early photographers, W. G. Lawes and J. W. Lindt
… 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 William G. …
-
Paul R. Williams at Work in Photographs: Tarrying With Cites/Sights/Sites of Trouble
… itself from the authoritative singular gaze of the patriarchal imperial photographer so that the plurality inherent within the ontology of viewing photographs be engaged. Azoulay cogently argues that the photographer is not the only person to act when a photographic event takes place. By …
-
A Media Archaeology of Technologies of Enchantment
This thesis explores how an understanding of an immaterial dimension of human experience was expressed and experienced in the context of nineteenth century engagement with science and technology. Drawing upon methods of media archaeology, it presents examples of visual technologies where apparatus …