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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"photographic archives"”.
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Digital technologies and photographic archives Birmingham Central Library: a case study
… digital technologies for those responsible for photographic collections in public libraries. Using the Birnlingham Central Library as a case study, the research has explored how information comn1unication technologies have impacted on the way in which photographic in1ages are created, stored and …
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The Lake is History: Photographic Archives and the Black Atlantic in Essex County
… of those environs as they emerge within the photographic archive of the Alvin D. McCurdy fonds. This dissertation follows the flow of vernacular photographs across Lake Erie to map transnational networks of kinship and highlight the affective labour that sustained these bonds. I argue that …
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Hambo buza unyoko: on future Real conditionals
Drawing from the photographic archives that belonged to my mother Lizzie Maduna (née Moloi), my late grandmother Elizabeth Masesi Moloi (née Dlamini), my late great aunt, Goguse Letta Ntshangase (née Moloi), I re-envision how the women in my family performed futurity. Although these women lived …
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Soul Hunting
… will attempt to show the energy captured in my photographic archives as a journey through my memories using an experimental interactive method.
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Gazing at the family: archives, performance and Portuguese photography (1940-1975)
This practice-based PhD thesis investigates photographic family archives and makes critical interpretations of them using performance photography. The two family’s albums contain hundreds of photographs that belonged to my grandparents and represent a period in Portugal’s past (1940-1975) scarred …
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Film as an archive for colonial photographs: activating the past in the present
… in which the colonial archive, and the colonial photographic archive in particular, can be reconstructed to produce new critical histories. The research argues for the potential of the moving image as a tool for re-staging colonial archives, as a means of generating responsible ways of looking …
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Trace and history: an investigation of Kurdish banner-making through contemporary art practice.
… with calligraphers; historical research from photographic archives, and martyrdom archives; through the culminating exhibition, the selection of key stories of calligraphers, combined in radical and provocative form to directly address their own community, with relevance also to the wider …
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The Fritz Ramseyer Collection - An Ethnography of a Protestant Mission Archive (1864-1908)
… Ramseyer Collection held at the Basel Mission Archives in Switzerland. Photography created in a mission context in the nineteenth century is abundant and can be found in many institutions and archives across the globe. These repositories, though under-researched, yield interesting facets of …
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A coal camp and its classroom: a historical study of a Virginia coalfield community and its school 1888-1987
… and amateur, and to evidence available using photographic archives. The primary importance of this study is the preservation and examination of a unique phenomenon in the history of schooling in the United States, the coal camp school. Within this framework, the evolution of the Bishop School …
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Transitional Frames: From Normalisation to Democracy Czech and Slovak Art Photography (1968-1998)
… of primary research material from various photographic archives and private collections, as well as twenty interviews with the main actors of the photography scene of the time. A latter semiotic analysis of photographs has served to disclose a range of ‘coded messages’ in their images, …
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The Aesthetics of Waste: Investigating the role of the ephemeral in the development of the avant-garde in Western Europe and Greece and its relationship to trauma
… crisis. In my own installations using historical archives from Greek Civil War, through the method of cut and paste, I have tried to create new images reusing photographic archives laden with historical, social and political meaning. This action was my subjective way to deal with collective trauma …