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Showing 1 to 20 of 675 for “"portrait"”.
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Self/portrait
SELF/PORTRAIT is an exploration of the creative process. Based in the genre of portraiture, this collection of work seeks to reveal the ways in which the artist's relationships and circumstances have factored into the creation of the resulting exhibition. This exploration involves the assessment of …
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Portrait of a Concert
Through the use of bio-metric data and audio recordings this research explores the body as it engages the concert environment. With the help of wearable technology and digital audio recording devices, data from four concerts was documented. Additionally personal reflections were recorded at the …
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The portrait and other stories
A collection of short stories from Bangladesh.
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The timely self-portrait machine
… the philosophy which underlies the Timely Self-Portrait Machine. The cultural history of the machine, the phenomenon of Television, and the personal history of this project are discussed. Technical information and a functional explanation of The Timely Self-Portrait Machine are provided. A …
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"Mirror, Mirror:" A Self-Portrait Study
… of a series of 26 poems which are titled as self-portraits. This work follows the writer/narrator's journey of self-discovery through memories, small moments that leave big impacts, and introspection. Each poem, although individual, weaves together with the others in the manuscript to signify the …
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The Portrait Prints of Mehmed II
This thesis examines four European portrait prints of Ottoman sultan Mehmed II, dated 1470 to 1493. At the center of this study is a formal and iconographical analysis that indicated all are rooted in traditional artistic conventions of both Western princely portraiture and stereotypical imagery of …
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The Personal Essay As a Self Portrait
The challenge addressed in this project has been how to effectively portray myself through the medium of the personal essay. In order to address this challenge, I first had to clarify and define exactly what a personal essay is, which required quite a bit of reading, and then use my writing skills …
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The Corroded Surface: Portrait of the Sublime
Derived from the Latin corrodere, meaning to ‘gnaw to pieces’, corrosion as a transformative physical process is nature at its most sublime, engendering fear and power, producing the obscure and reducing form to the darkness ‘beneath all beauty as promise of its ultimate annihilation’ (Beckley, …
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Art -Science Integration: Portrait of a Residency
The study revealed that while integration in theory can offer an antidote for fragmentation of the school curriculum, in practice it is difficult to execute in a way that is meaningful to children and makes sense from their perspective. Findings seem to indicate the need for rethinking the manner …
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Theory and practice of the portrait film
Thesis (M.S.V.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1979.
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A Self Portrait: "The Embassy of Chile"
… to describe the procedure was by making a Self Portrait. By adopting this concept we were given the possibility to create our own image of what Chile was, and to reveal and conceal whatever we thought was appropriate.
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Portrait of a Popular American Badman : Jesse James
Jesse James was an outlaw. He was the first and most notorious of that type of horseback desperado that has become identified with the Old West. Jesse James robbed banks, waylaid stagecoaches and shot people. Oddly enough, however, Jesse is not considered a blot on our history, but instead has …
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The Mirror Project: A Portrait of Urban Inequality
Photography has historically played a vital role in highlighting urban inequality, as seen in the work of Jacob Riis documenting late 19th-century New York City. Today, amidst ongoing gentrification, traditional mapping methods often fall short in capturing the lived experiences of communities. To …
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Computational illumination for portrait photography and inverse graphics
Supervised training of deep networks has led to remarkable successes in computer vision, for example on image classification or object detection problems. These successes are driven by the availability of large amounts of paired training data with manual ground truth annotations. For many …
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Visual narratives and the portrait busts of Edmonia Lewis
… social and historical significance of the extant portrait busts sculpted by Edmonia Lewis. The Afro-Native American artist is best known for her thematic sculptures such as Forever Free (1867), Hagar (1875), and Death of Cleopatra (1876). The academic attention paid to these works obscures the …
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A Demographic Portrait of Homeschooling Families in South Carolina
<p> This research presents a demographic portrait of the homeschooling community and families in South Carolina through a 22 question survey administered during the 2010-2011 school year to 751 homeschooling families. It is the first study of its kind conducted in the state since 1992, as well as …
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