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Showing 1 to 20 of 268 for “"photograph"”.
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FAMILY SYSTEMS THROUGH FAMILY PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS
<p>This study views the family photograph album as a visual construction of social reality which represents how the family perceives and defines its world. This popular cultural artifact is used to examine the social and geographical boundaries of this world as well as the family's …
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Photograph enhancement by adaptive digital unsharp masking.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering. Thesis. 1974. M.S.
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Organising a photograph collection based on human appearance
… a complete framework for organising digital photographs in an unsupervised manner, based on the appearance of people captured in the photographs. Organising a collection of photographs manually, especially providing the identities of people captured in photographs, is a time consuming task. …
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Picture This: Archiving an Artist’s Personal Photograph Collection
<p>Physical photographs, however fragile they may be, are an important part of the historical record and provide visual documentation to events in people’s lives. Properly storing and documenting a photograph collection is essential to safeguarding a long life for the collection so it can be …
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The Photograph As A Site of Mnemonic Return
… research addresses the question of how the photograph can operate as an environment of mnemonic return. Using practice-based research as the site for the generation of new knowledge, the project evolves over three stages (Phases I – III), moving from the individual to collective contexts. …
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Puncturing the Silence: Painting Over the Found Photograph
… onto the surface of found and discarded photographs, creates a visual and conceptual disjuncture by punctuating and altering the temporal frame of the photograph. The research is positioned in relation to Susan Sontag’s description in On Photography (1977) as to how the photograph can at …
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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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Psychotherapists’ experience of client-initiated sharing of a photograph in therapy
In a world with an increasing availability of photographic technology, it may be important to explore and understand visual tools as a potential form of non-verbal communication within counselling and psychotherapy. The field of phototherapy, which explores the therapeutic use of photographs as an …
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Verbal protocol and eye movements for expert and novice photograph judges
… employed 24 subjects to examine 20 soft-copy photographic images. The 24 subjects were divided into four nested combinations: Protocol and Group. Two types of protocol were used, concurrent and retrospective, and two expertise groups were used, novice picture-takers and expert judges. The …
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What is it 'to move' a photograph? Artistic tactics for destabilizing and transforming images
What is it ‘to move’ a photograph? Artistic tactics for destabilising and transforming images. This dissertation presents the findings of practice-led research that explores how artistic practices intervening in existing images ‘move’ images — in the sense of destabilise and transform. The notion …
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Beyond Participation: The therapeutic ‘self-photograph’ and participatory photography in peer-led mental health design and evaluation
This thesis examines the value of participatory photography in supporting recovery and co-designing qualitative evaluation methods. Whilst delivering a total of five study programmes, I developed participant-led evaluation methods which draw on an emerging photographic practice evolving in …
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Lineament and pegmatite mapping using landsat TM imagery and aerial photograph data: Kaseba-Katota Area, Serenje district, Central Zambia
… Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) image and aerial photographs), joints and foliation traces (mapped in the field). Remote sensing techniques. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) as well as statistical analyses applied to this digital database and the resulting maps show that the strike of …
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Between forever and never : the photograph as a bridge between past and present; memory and it's fiction, 1981-2009
… the process of looking through his mother's photographs after her death. He weighs up how much of her he recognises in the images he comes across. He evaluates the versions of her that are portrayed and deduces that "none seem to be really 'right':" neither as photographic performances nor as …
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Attitudes Toward Anonymous Public Nudes
… anonymous public nudes (APNs). APNs are nude photographs which are taken or cropped so as not to include the face or other identifying characteristics, and posted on the Internet. This differs from sexting in that the photographs are meant to be seen by an audience of strangers online, rather …
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Pencils of Light: Family, Photography, and Performance
<p>This study examines the ways in which the photograph is an act of performance. Not only does the photograph serve as a photograph for its audience, the photograph's viewer uses the photograph to perform for his or herself. This relationship between photograph and viewer is most often explored …
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Predicting range of acceptable photographic tonal adjustments
… than one way to select tonal adjustment for a photograph, and different individuals may prefer different adjustments. However, selecting good adjustments is challenging. This thesis describes a method to predict whether a given tonal rendition is acceptable for a photograph, which we use to …
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Unfolding the act of photography
… thesis discusses the multifaceted status of the photograph, as a contribution to understanding the mechanics of the production of meaning within the photograph. In order to get a better view of how photographs function, I both revisit discourses that have dealt with medium specificity issues and …
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A fotografia como documento e sua importância na memória humana
… through Archival Science, the importance of photograph as a document, registering and representing the memory and the history built by men along the time. Considering the keen eye of the archivologist that perceives the value of information which are inserted in the most varied kinds of …
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