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Noble, Anne, and Geoffrey Batchen. "Had We Lived ... Phantasms & Nieves Penitentes: Conversation between Anne Noble and Geoffrey Batchen." Grimace, Vol. 2, no. 1 (2017): 20–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.47659/m2.020.art.
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In the conversation, two of the most prominent New Zealand authors in the field of photography talk about the body of work of Anne Noble’s Antarctica photography projects. Had we lived is a re-photographic project reflecting on the tragedies of heroic age exploration (commemorating the centenary of the deaths of Robert Falcon Scott and his men on their return from the South Pole – Terra Nova Expedition or British Antarctic Expedition to the South Pole, 1912) and on the memory of Erebus tragedy of 1975, when a tourist plane flying over Antarctica crashed into Mt Erebus, killing all 257 people on board. Anne Noble re-photographed image taken by Herbert Bowers at the South Pole – the photograph of Scott and his men taken after they arrived at the South Pole to find Amundsen had already been and gone. Phantasms and Nieves Penitentes projects hint at the triumph of Antarctica over human endeavour and as a non-explorer type herself photographer Anne Noble states: “I rather liked this perverse reversal”. Both tragic events have a notable relationship to photography – Erebus in particular, as those who died were likely looking out of the aeroplane windows taking photographs at the time of impact. This relationship is addressed throughout the conversation between the two, providing an insightful commentary on the questions of authenticity, documentary value and the capacity of photography to exist in the in-between spaces of thoughtful imagining, and rational dreaming. Keywords: Antarctica, authenticity, documentary, photographic imaginary, re-photographing
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Padmanabhan, Lakshmi. "A Feminist Still." Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies 35, no. 3 (December 1, 2020): iv—29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8631535.
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What can photographic form teach us about feminist historiography? Through close readings of photographs by visual artist and documentary photographer Sheba Chhachhi, who documented the struggle for women’s rights in India from the 1980s onward, this article outlines the political stakes of documentary photography’s formal conventions. First, it analyzes candid snapshots of recent protests for women’s rights in India, focusing on an iconic photograph by Chhachhi of Satyarani Chadha, a community organizer and women’s rights activist, at a rally in New Delhi in 1980. It attends to the way in which such photographs turn personal scenes of mourning into collective memorials to militancy, even as they embalm their subjects in a state of temporal paralysis and strip them of their individual history. It contrasts these snapshots to Chhachhi’s collaborative portrait of Chadha from 1990, a “feminist still” that deploys formal conventions of stillness to stage temporal encounters between potential histories and unrealized futures. Throughout, the article returns to the untimeliness of Chhachhi’s photography, both in the multiple temporalities opened up within the image and in its avant-garde critique of feminist politics through experiments with photographic form.
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Dondero, Maria Giulia. "Photography as a Witness of Theatre." Recherches sémiotiques 28, no. 1-2 (October 7, 2010): 43–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/044587ar.
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My paper investigates the meeting of theatre and photography in ‘theatre photography’. Recognizing that both art forms can determine theoretical and philosophical views on representation and self-representation, I aim to compare their visual strategies and the way they construct point of view. In the process several questions are raised: do qualities of photographs belong to objects photographed or to photographs themselves? How important is the object that ‘triggers’ the view? Should the theatre photographer place his camera anywhere? What of framing? In the second section I offer an analysis of photographs taken by Roger Pic in 1957 during the Paris performance of Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children by the Berliner Ensemble. This analysis seeks to demonstrate that theatre photography, which often seen as an example of documentary photography, can reach artistic status, provided it relies on enunciative strategies that express what cannot otherwise be photographed in a ‘direct’ manner, namely the characters’ words and emotions.
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Balčus, Zane. "OF STILL AND MOVING IMAGES: STYLISTICS OF HERCS FRANKS’ EARLY DOCUMENTARIES." Culture Crossroads 23 (January 10, 2024): 216–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.55877/cc.vol23.377.
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Latvian documentary filmmaker Hercs Franks (1926–2013) directed his first films in 1965, the two short documentaries were produced at the Latvian television’s production unit Telefilma-Rīga: “Salty Bread” (Sāļā maize) and “At Noon” (Pusdienā). Both films reflect an intricate practice and aesthetic element of the director – the use of still photography, which for him is both a research tool and a stylistic device present throughout his career. “Salty Bread” includes photographs as a stylistic element allowing the viewer to prolong observation of particular images, whereas in “At Noon” still photographs feature on the films’ credits, but more significant is photography’s use as a research tool for preparing the film. The intermedial studies have explored the interrelationship of different media and used intermediality as a tool for close reading of specific works, among other applications. The connection of cinema and photography represent the potential of intermedial approach through the technological, aesthetic, institutional practices. Specifically documentary cinema in its relation to photography shares additional issues of the meaning of documentality and representation of reality. Through close reading of Hercs Franks’ first films, I would argue that Franks transcends normative documentary function in the use of still photographs [Hallas 2023] and demonstrates the intermedial practice in combining photography and documentary filmmaking.
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Colner, Miha, and Ivan Petrović. "Ivan Petrović, Photographer, Archivist and Artist: Interview with Ivan Petrović." Cabinet, Vol. 2, no. 2 (2017): 4–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.47659/m3.004.int.
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Ivan Petrović (1973) has been working in the fields of photography and art for twenty years as a researcher, creator and collector. Since 1997, he has been creating and publishing photographic projects that reflect the spirit of space and time in which they are created, while in his works he uses both documentary approaches as well as research principles. In 2011, together with photographer Mihail Vasiljević, he founded a para-institution, the Centre for Photography (CEF). Despite lacking its own premises, infrastructure or funds for performing its activities, the institution deals with the search, preservation, collection and analysis of local photographic materials from recent history. In the past ten years, Petrović also moved his artistic practice beyond mere artistic expression, since he addresses the phenomena of photography from an analytical-theoretical point of view. His interest lies in the nature of the photographic image and its role in society and historiography. In this spirit, long-term projects such as Documents (1997–2008), Images (2002–), Portfolio Belgrade (2015–) and the latest film production were created. The interview with Ivan Petrović took place on 1 September 2017 in Belgrade. The main themes were the role of photography in the dominant history, the boundary between one’s own practice and archival work, photography as an art and the likes. Keywords: collection, documentary, photography's role, preservation, research
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Langendorf, Richard. "Documentary photography." Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 15, no. 1-2 (January 1991): 74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0198-9715(91)90058-l.
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Arsita, Adya. "JUKSTAPOSISI FOTOGRAFI DI NOVEL GRAFIS ‘THE PHOTOGRAPHER’." spectā: Journal of Photography, Arts, and Media 2, no. 2 (April 24, 2019): 135–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.24821/specta.v2i2.2554.
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AbstrakPenelitian ini hendak mengkaji fungsi-fungsi dokumenter dalam karya fotografi yang divisualisasikan berdampingan dengan gambar-gambar komik dalam sebuah novel grafis berjudul ‘The Photographer: Into War-Torn Afghanistan with Doctors without Borders’. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mencari tahu apakah nilai dokumenter karya foto bisa tetap diapresiasi layaknya foto dokumenter ataukah ada peralihan fungsi ketika dua jenis piktorial disandingkan bersamaan. Metode penelitian yang digunakan untuk menganalisis adalah metode kualitatif yang menganggap bahwa setiap petunjuk adalah penting untuk dianalisis. Kemudian potongan-potongan informasi yang didapat dikaji dengan pendekatan fotografi dokumenter. Diharapkan hasil penelitian ini dapat memberikan kontribusi dalam ranah ilmu kajian fotografi sekaligus kajian komik (comic studies). Dalam ranah fotografi, fotografi dokumenter akan makin ‘berbicara’ dan memaksimalkan fungsinya ketika terbantu dengan teks piktorial lain. Untuk ranah kajian komik, hadirnya citraan fotografi justru akan memperjelas pesan yang hendak disampaikan kepada khalayak melalui gambar-gambarnya. Kata kunci: jukstaposisi, fotografi, novel grafis, dokumenter AbstractJuxtaposition of Photography in a Graphic Novel Titled ‘The Photographer’. This research studied the documentary function in photography works visualized side to side with the comic drawings in a graphic novel titled ‘The Photographer:Into War-Torn Afghanistan with Doctors without Borders’. The aim of this research was to find out whether the documentary photographs are still appreciated as they are, or there are any changes of function when those two pictorials are juxtaposed. The method employed in this research was qualitative method which considered that each clue was important to be analyzed. Then, each of them would be studied using approaches from the view point of documentary photography. The result of this research hopefully could give a contribution to the photography studies and comic studies. Photographs will ‘speak louder’ and will have their greatest value when supported by other kind of pictorials. While in comic studies, the photographs will be able to send messages better through their drawings when juxtaposed with photographs. Keywords: juxtaposition, photography, graphic novel, documentary
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Нецић, Неда. "ДОКУМЕНТАРНОСТ И ФОТОЖУРНАЛИЗАМ У ПРОМЕНИ ГУТЕНБЕРГОВОГ ДРУШТВА." БАЛКАНСКЕ СИНТЕЗЕ 9, no. 1 (November 23, 2022): 31–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.46630/bs.1.2022.03.
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The appearance of photography in 19. century had stopped the fluidity of time and enabled the future generations to have an insight into history. Photographs are a visual testimony of the past and in the period of their occurrence people believed that photographs could provide a true and objective account of reality. Documented war conflicts, people, places and events can enable us an insight into the past. Implementation of photographs into the press gave rise to photojournalism. The press had abundantly used the photography as an illustration to the texts, and the people craved for information and entertainment provided by the press. As the photographic technique evolved, the possibilities of manipulation by means of photography also advanced. With the advancement of media and the photography as a very powerful medium, the people became aware of the possibilities of manipulation by the media. Different examples from history give testimony of how interest groups used the photography with an aim to achieve their political and economic interests. The ethics of these photographs is thus being questioned, since the authentic documentary has often remained marginal. The subject of this study is to give a historical review of photography and its documentary character, and to point out the problems of objectivity, that is ethics of photography since its occurrence till present days.
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Pevec, Iza, and Lukas Birk. "Keeping a Story Alive: Interview with Lukas Birk." Membrana Journal of Photography, Vol. 3, no. 2 (2018): 4–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.47659/m5.004.int.
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The work of an Austrian artist Lukas Birk can be connected to some dilemmas of documentary photography. If the critique of the classical documentary photography stresses the responsibility towards the photographed subject and the problem of the exoticization for the western view, Birk’s work is often developed, displayed and distributed in the place where his projects are created. Therefore, the first audience of his projects are locals and are, in that way, maybe more closely connected to the project itself. He co-founded the Austro Sino Arts Program in China and founded a residency program SewonArtSpace in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The project Afghan Box Camera, which he developed with the ethnographer Sean Folley, focuses on the photographic praxis in Afghanistan, mainly on the type of a simple instant camera, which was traditionally used there but its use is now in decline. They investigated the origins, techniques and the many personal stories of the photographers using or having used this type of camera and also made instructional videos on how to build or use one. Attention to the overlooked photographic practices, history and contexts marks also his current project The Myanmar Photo Archive, a growing collection of Myanmar photographs that were created during and after the colonial period – the work of local photographers from that period has namely remained unknown until today. Keywords: local history, Myanmar photography, photographic backdrop, western view
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Kuo, Li-Hsin. "Politicising Documentary Photography." Javnost - The Public 14, no. 3 (January 2007): 49–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13183222.2007.11008946.
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Zakharova, Oleksandra. ""PHOTOTELLING" AS THE INNOVATION OF PHOTOJOURNAL "6 MOIS" BY CONNECTING PRESS AND BOOK MARKETS." Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Sociology 8 (2017): 29–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/2413-7979/8.5.
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he author analyses the French journal «6 MOIS», which was created in Paris in 2011, from the point of view of visual sociology. The notions of documentary photography (350 pages of journalistic photography) that represent social life in the 21st century are investigated. The goal of this article is to demonstrate that the journal is a unique and significant source for social science. The research connects the views of the editorial team with photographers from around the world by analysing and comparing interviews conducted in collaboration with the editorial team and photographers from China, The Netherlands, France, Russia. The interviews reveal the main criteria relevant in selecting documentary photographic material: the “concept-story”; their journalistic nature; visual quality; and the actuality of the topic. By analysing journal publications this author has discovered the way social problems in documentary photography are demonstrated: using age; gender; emotions of heroes; the location of story; and the main social issues. To answer the question of how the popular documentary journal «6 MOIS» constructs the image of the contemporary, the content analysis of photographs and the journal’s interviews and are presented and discussed.
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Colner, Miha. "Miroslav Zdovc: Contextualising the Archive." Život umjetnosti, no. 111 (July 2023): 132–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.31664/zu.2022.111.10.
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In this paper a case study of constructing a photographic archive in a museum context, and the ways of contextualising seemingly marginal and insignificant photographic material, is being showcased and analysed. The focal point of the paper is the personal photographic archive of Miroslav Zdovc (1929–2009), a prominent Slovenian professional photographer as well as an artist using photography who, however, did not receive a deserved place in local and regional history of photography and art. Therefore, his extensive body of work that has nearly disappeared from the public eye is now in the process of being reviewed and re-evaluated. His extensive archive consists of diverse materials: personal imagery, documentary photographs, documents of artworks, and (his own) photographic artworks. The paper thus presents the project in the making in which the curators of Božidar Jakac Gallery – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Kostanjevica na Krki have been conducting the process of cataloguing, evaluating and finally showcasing his immense body of work. It also brings forward the most significant elements of his artistic practice that spanned from the 1950s to the 1990s, and which was changing and developing in accordance with the concurrent tendencies in photography and art.
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Rodriguez, Richard T. "On the Subject of Gang Photography." Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies 25, no. 1 (2000): 109–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/azt.2000.25.1.109.
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This paper examines the figure of the Chicano gangster in “gang photography, ” which represents Chicanos affiliated with street gangs in the greater Los Angeles area. Gang photography encompasses documentary photography, self-produced gang photography, as well as police photography. Moving beyond the aesthetic and personal desires by which the practice of photography is typically framed, I insist that we must come to terms with the sociopolitical forces underscoring all representations of Chicano gangs. My title refers to overlapping meanings of the subject. The subject or topic of gang photography requires an understanding of the Chicano gangster as a social subject whose subjectivity is (re)figured within and outside the realm of the photograph. Moreover, my analysis of these particular photographic practices dialogues with ethnographic discourse analysis, media studies, and contemporary cultural studies of race and ethnicity. In conclusion, the paper unsettles any smooth comprehension of photographic representations.
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Meron, Yaron. "Photographic (In)authenticity." Video Journal of Education and Pedagogy 4, no. 2 (December 27, 2019): 60–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/23644583-00401018.
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Debates around authenticity within photographic discourse are persistent. Some have revolved around documentary photography, while other discussions focus on the ethical validity of digitally edited news photographs and indeed the photographic medium itself. This article proposes that discussions around ‘authenticity’ should be focused instead towards contextualising photography more appropriately within the creative practice of ‘making strange’. It acknowledges existing debates around photography and authenticity, before locating the discussion within creative practice. It then moves to a discussion, using Robert Capa’s ‘Falling Soldier’ (Capa, 1936) as a starting point, before drawing on examples from the author’s own creative and professional practice. In the process, the article argues that visual researchers embrace the challenges of making the familiar strange within photographic creative practices.
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Oreshina, Polina. "Documental photos." Век информации (сетевое издание) 5, no. 3 (August 31, 2021): 25–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.33941/age-info.com53(16)2.
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This article is devoted to identifying and analyzing the mechanisms of traditional visual documentation of protests and the formation of images and symbols in Russian protest photography, as well as its functioning in the modern media space. In this article, we will dwell in detail both on photographs and series of specific documentary artists, and on the functioning of photographs directly in the media space, since political photography is inseparable from the fact of its use in the media. Nevertheless, we will explore visuality to a greater extent and will focus on visual images and symbols of political photography, on the individual practices of photographers in this genre.
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Mehta, Rijuta. "Manifest Documentary." JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 63, no. 1 (September 2023): 53–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cj.2023.a910938.
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abstract: This article argues that the symbolic and material power of Manifest Destiny inhered in the norms of documentary photography at Life magazine, particularly in preexisting shooting scripts. An analysis of visual re-takes and narrative fixity in the 1947 photo-essay on the Indian Partition, "The Great Migration," reveals how tropes of US settler colonialism were projected onto distressed refugees in South Asia. The norm of having photographed subjects enact script-image correlation was a revenue-minded colonial action; it absorbed a range of racial differences—South Asian, Black American, and Native American—into the fantasy of postwar US hegemony.
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CURRELL, SUE. "You Haven't Seen Their Faces: Eugenic National Housekeeping and Documentary Photography in 1930s America." Journal of American Studies 51, no. 2 (May 2017): 481–511. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875817000366.
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This essay explores the relationship between welfare, eugenics and documentary photography during the New Deal in order to explain how a set of government photographs taken by Arthur Rothstein in the Shenandoah became entwined in the rhetorical structure of eugenic ideology. The photographs discussed portray victims of forced sterilization before their incarceration, yet there is no evidence to show that the photographer was aware of, or complicit with, this fact. This essay responds to the questions this raises about the images: what historical and social contingencies were behind their production? What is the relationship between the photographer, the photographs, the New Deal and the subjects depicted? How did efforts to help America's poorest lead to their incarceration and sterilization? Why is the full picture impossible to see? And how do we read and understand them today?
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Pfautsch, Anne. "Documentary Photography from the German Democratic Republic as a Substitute Public." Humanities 7, no. 3 (September 10, 2018): 88. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h7030088.
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This paper discusses artistic documentary photography from the German Democratic Republic (GDR) from the mid-1970s until the fall of the Berlin Wall, and suggests that it functioned as a substitute public–Ersatzöffentlichkeit–in society. This concept of a substitute public sphere sometimes termed a counter-public sphere, relates to GDR literature that, in retrospect, has been allocated this role. On the whole, in critical discourse certain texts have been recognised as being distinct from GDR propaganda which sought to deliver alternative readings in their coded texts. I propose that photography, despite having had a different status to literature in the GDR, adopted similar traits and also functioned as part of a substitute public sphere. These photographers aimed to expose the existing gap between the propagandised and actual life under socialism. They embedded a moral and critical position in their photographs to comment on society and to incite debate. However, it was necessary for these debates to occur in the private sphere, so that artists and their audience would avoid state persecution. In this paper, I review Harald Hauswald’s series Everyday Life (1976–1990) to demonstrate how photographs enabled substitute discourses in visual ways. Hauswald is a representative of artistic documentary photography and although he was never published in the official GDR media, he was the first East German photographer to publish in renowned West German and European media outlets, such as GEO magazine and ZEITmagazin, before the reunification. In 1990, he founded the ‘Ostkreuz–Agency of Photographers’ with six other East German documentary photographers.
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Liyu, Sya. "The Forbidden City in view - The photographic activity of foreign photographers of the Late Qing Dynasty in China." Человек и культура, no. 2 (February 2023): 48–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/2409-8744.2023.2.39977.
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The article examines the photographic activity of foreign photographers during the late Qing Dynasty in China and analyzes their work in the context of historical material. The author explores the metaphor of the camera as it entered China and how the photographic activity of foreign photographers represented the colonial conquest of the Forbidden City.Since the Second Opium War in 1860, photography has served as a documentary tool, following the sounds of colonial invaders' guns as they sought to capture and control the Chinese capital. Forty years later, in 1900, during the Boxer Rebellion, the camera of a foreign photographer literally penetrated the Forbidden City, the former center of imperial power, revealing to the world the intricacies of the mysterious device and the turmoil of its capture by the allies.The use of photography in this context took on a dual aesthetic and political character, documenting the view of the Forbidden City while discrediting the attributes of imperial power. The author concludes that, in addition to its ability to document foreign landscapes, photography often acquired political significance during invasion. Thus, the author argues that photography's development in China during the late Qing period is inseparable from colonial and invasion activities and that photography constructed power relations while also showing the world a mysterious and declining China. The photography of the Forbidden City gives full expression to the conquest of the center of Chinese power.
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Bell, Amy. "Crime Scene Photography in England, 1895–1960." Journal of British Studies 57, no. 1 (January 2018): 53–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2017.182.
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AbstractThis article discusses the development of techniques and practices of murder crime scene photography through four pairs of photographs taken in England between 1904 and 1958 and examines their “forensic aesthetic”: the visual combination of objective clues and of subjective aesthetic resonances. Crime scene photographs had legal status as evidence that had to be substantiated by a witness, and their purpose, as expressed in forensic textbooks and policing articles, was to provide a direct transfer of facts to the courtroom; yet their inferential visual nature made them allusive and evocative as well. Each of four pairs of photographs discussed reflects a significant period in the historical evolution of crime scene photography as well as an observable aesthetic influence: the earliest days of police photography and pictorialism; professionalization in the 1930s, documentary photography, and film noir; postwar photographic expansion to the suburban and middle class, advertising images of the family and home; and postwar elegiac landscape photography in the 1950s and compassion shown to infanticidal mothers. Crime scene photographs also demonstrate a remarkable shift in twentieth-century forensic technologies, and they reveal a collection of ordinary domestic and pastoral scenes at the moment when an act of violence made them extraordinary.
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Ciputra, Alfian Rizal Andre, Pitri Ermawati, and Syaifudin Syaifudin. "Pecinan Tambak Bayan Surabaya Dalam Fotografi Dokumenter." spectā: Journal of Photography, Arts, and Media 3, no. 1 (August 5, 2019): 50–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.24821/specta.v3i1.2837.
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Documentary Photography of Chinatown in Tambak Bayan Surabaya. Chinese etchnic of Surabaya has been living in the settlement, called Tambak Bayan Surabaya, around Kalimas River. Most of the families living there are the third and fourth generation of the Chinese ethnic whom migrated to Surabaya several years ago. Those families occupied the buildings formerly were horse stables during colonial period. Their economic condition was classified as middle to lower class. Hence, they did not have other choices but those settlements. Documentary photography is a way to describe their everyday conditions in a 4x4 quadrangle house that is high. Chinese identities that surround their homes are each the size of each family inhabiting the house. The families residing in Chinatown Tambak Bayan Surabaya can be visualized into several documentary photographic works showing their condition and their dwelling places. Keywords: documentary photography, Chinatown’s Tambak Bayan Surabaya, Chinese New year
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Olszański, Grzegorz. "Poetyki negatywów. Tadeusz Różewicz wobec fotografii." Wielogłos, no. 2 (52) (2022): 69–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/2084395xwi.22.005.15878.
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Poetics of the Negatives. Tadeusz Różewicz and the Photography The article Poetics of the Negatives poses a question about the position of photography in creation of the writers’images. Exemplified in the most substantial part by the pictures of Tadeusz Różewicz, taken by a prominent artist photographer Adam Hawałej of Wrocław, published in his two books (Różewicz, Śmietnik [Garbage]), the article aims to reconstruct Różewicz’s attitudes towards the photographic medium. The author of Niepokój [Faces of Anxiety] initially appears as an artist protecting his privacy, at the same time negating the creative measure of photography (in favor of its documentary role). However, as time passed and possibly because of his friendship with several outstanding photographers (A. Hawałej, J. Olek and J. Stankiewicz), his view on photography tended to evolve while the artist himself became not only the subject of numerous exquisite works, but eventually the author of many. The article concludes with an interpretation of the photographic happening captured by Adam Hawałej and published in the book Śmietnik.
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Biarincová, Patricia. "Fotografia dokumentalna w edukacji artystycznej." Studia Scientifica Facultatis Paedagogicae Universitas Catholica Ružomberok 22, no. 3 (2023): 112–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.54937/ssf.2023.22.3.112-117.
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Documentary photographs of Karel Plicka, Martin Martinček are interesting for us not only as valuable historical documents, but also for their great artistic value. In this paper we will present practical examples of how documentary photography can be used in contemporary visual art education.
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Chaudhary, Zahid R. "Desert Blooms." October 168 (May 2019): 92–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/octo_a_00351.
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This essay considers the place of abstraction in documentary photography, a genre whose primary aesthetic-political commitment is usually assumed to be on the side of figuration, denotation, and facticity. Taking up photographer Fazal Sheikh's photographic series Desert Bloom, which records natural and human-made disturbances in the Naqab/Negev desert, the essay considers artistic abstraction in relation to other forms of economic, juridical, and political abstraction critical to settler colonialism in particular and capitalism more generally. How might abstraction be the very condition of politics? What might this imply for our understandings of documentary aesthetics?
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Baid, Anisha. "Wild Life." Membrana Journal of Photography, Vol. 3, no. 1 (2018): 20–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.47659/m4.020.art.
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Wild Life is a series of augmented photographs of animals and insects placed in vacant, overgrown spaces in suburban Bangalore. Taken through mobile AR apps like Holo and Augment, these photographs (or screenshots) situate virtual bodies within the frame of the mobile camera – creating something in between a document and fiction. The work investigates these processes of augmentation, which enable 3D representations of things in the real/physical world to be projected back into physical space that are then photographed. The larger phenomenon of AR photography also complicates traditional notions of “immersive” media – forcing one to interact with their environments. This essay reflects on the implications of mobile AR photography on the image and the referent. Through a phenomenological reading of and immersion into popular uses of mobile AR (like the game Pokémon Go), the essay is an observation of the convoluted relationships evoked between augmented bodies, their environments and the screens on which they manifest. Keywords: digital image, documentary, mobile AR, photography, Pokémon Go
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Sandbye, Mette. "Fotografiet som dokument." Periskop – Forum for kunsthistorisk debat, no. 31 (June 13, 2024): 32–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/periskop.v2024i31.146565.
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Departing from John Roberts’ notion of “the social ontology of photography”, I discuss how recent research and theories about photography in an expanded field have interacted with contemporary art’s use of photography in recent years, especially in an intersection between documentary and art, and especially among artists working with more or less political topics such as migration and the postcolonial. It is photography beyond “the politics of representation” in the sense that it is not about problematizing photography’s relationship to reality, but rather about actively using the medium as a social encounter and making hitherto unseen, sometimes personal and memory-based, material from the “archive” visible. Common to many of these recent works is that they incorporate several forms of photography and photographic archive material in an effort to convey, revitalize and possibly also criticize various historical issues, here linked to Danish colonialism and migration. Whereas Danish art institutions historically have had problems including documentary practices, they have embraced these new “mixed” forms more recently. In 2022/2023, three exhibitions at Copenhagen art institutions brought such practices into focus, and the article is based on examples of the use of photography in them: Moments in Greenland with Inuuteq Storch (with John Møller) and Teit Jørgensen at Nordatlantens Brygge, Tina Enghoff 's Displaced at the Royal Danish Library, and Vladimir Tomić’s and Ana Pavlović’s works in the group exhibition Connections — Danish artists from Ex-Yugoslavia at The National Gallery of Denmark.
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Brujić, Marija. "Kratak uvod u istoriju antropologije fotografije." Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology 12, no. 1 (March 31, 2017): 129. http://dx.doi.org/10.21301/eap.v12i1.6.
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The paper represents a short historical overview of key anthropological figures in Anglo-American and French anthropology of photography such are Boas, Malinowski, Evans-Pritchard, Mead and Bateson, Levi-Strauss and (John) Collier till the current visual anthropologists as Banks, Pink, Ruby, Pinney, and Edwards, among many. Furthermore, the major theoretical ideas such are: objectivity and subjectivity of photography, its material, and intangible aspects, its representative potential, ethical issues and reflexive approach are discussed. At the end, several anthropological projects which include photography are mentioned in order to suggest possible research pathways. I will mention few. Pink asserts the importance of ethnographic hypermedia which includes written text, images, video, photographs and sound in order to create interactive scholarly publications. During his ethnographic research of cultural aspect of wine producing in Burgundy, Coover’s work resulted in electronic ethnography and internet photo study of harvest in order to establish a better connection between the viewer-reader and his work. At the beginning unintentionally, Loescher collaborated with children during her visual research of contemporary urban childhood in Manchester by giving them her still camera. As a result, she was able to better understand their worldviews and their lifestyle. Another collaborative work was between Pink and documentary photographer, da Silva, who made a visual documentary project among two fishing communities in England and Portugal. Finally, the paper mentions Edwards’ research on archival research of museum photography which stresses the role of photography in creating and manipulating with the past.
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Mitropoulos, Maria. "Demonic Curiosity and Documentary Photography." Alethia 5, no. 1 (July 15, 2002): 65–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/aleth.v5i1.65.
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Biarincová, Patricia. "Documentary photography in art education." Prace Naukowe Akademii im. Jana Długosza w Częstochowie. Edukacja Plastyczna. Fotografia 10 (2015): 87–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.16926/ep.2015.10.06.
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Brown, Elspeth H. "Welfare Capitalism and Documentary Photography:." History of Photography 32, no. 2 (April 18, 2008): 137–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03087290801895738.
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Hunt, William Blaine. "Documentary photography and applied anthropology." Visual Anthropology 10, no. 1 (October 1997): 67–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08949468.1997.9966720.
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Young, Stephanie L. "Social Documentary Photography: An Appreciation." Review of Communication 8, no. 3 (July 2008): 254–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15358590701851657.
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Zhou, Dengyan. "REFRAMING DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY IN CHINA." photographies 11, no. 2-3 (July 19, 2018): 339–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17540763.2018.1445012.
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Sarsby, Jacqueline. "Exmoor Village Revisited: Mass-Observation's ‘Anthropology of Ourselves’, the ‘Feel Good Factor’ in Wartime Colour Photography and the Photograph as Art or Social Document." Rural History 9, no. 1 (April 1998): 99–115. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0956793300001461.
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In 1988, HTV made a series of programmes about a Somerset village called Luccombe. Their starting point was the Mass-Observation survey carried out over forty years before and described in Exmoor Village. No mention was made of the larger project - the ‘wholesome’ British export, for which the survey and perhaps even more importantly, the photographs, were commissioned. The difficulties of producing and reproducing fine-quality colour photographs at that time, however, suggest that the social investigators and the photographer were pursuing widely differing goals. The different approaches of social documentary photography and pictorial photography may not be obvious in a beautiful print, embedded in an anthropological text, but the use of photographs, which were essentially reconstructions of idealised village life disguised as documents, indicates how much importance the Ministry of Information attached to exporting the image of the wholesome, ‘traditional', English rural community.
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Sailor, Rachel. "Pictorialism in the American West." UW National Parks Service Research Station Annual Reports 36 (January 1, 2013): 150–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.13001/uwnpsrc.2013.4009.
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Early twentieth century (1900-1945) photography of northwestern Wyoming (including the Teton and Yellowstone areas) fits into a paradigm of regional photographic production that either conforms to the documentary or pictorial aesthetics most common in the era. Pictorial photography, especially, links the region to larger trends in the nation and can be analyzed to uncover previously unexamined assumptions about the value of photographic aesthetics and regional production within the milieu of fine art photography in the United States prior to WWII.
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Fox, Paul. "An unprecedented wartime practice: Kodaking the Egyptian Sudan." Media, War & Conflict 11, no. 3 (July 13, 2017): 309–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750635217710676.
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This article examines Kodak photographs made by participant soldiers and photographer–correspondents working in the field for the illustrated press during the concluding phase of the 1883–1898 campaign to defeat an Islamist insurgency in the Egyptian Sudan, whose leaders sought to create a regional caliphate. It explores how the presence of early generation portable cameras impacted on image making practices on British operations, and how aspects of campaign experience were subsequently represented in Kodak-derived photograph albums. With reference to graphic art and commercial photographic practices associated with Nile tourism and recent military activity in the Nile valley after 1882, the author argues, firstly, that the representation of combat was transformed by handheld photography and, secondly, that in the context of photographs of logistical activity and leisure, picturesque aesthetics were occluded by a ‘documentary’ mode of representation synonymous with the increasingly industrial nature of Western armed conflict. The article also calls attention to how photomechanical reproduction made possible the widespread availability of affordable albums for a public here identified as the readership of the illustrated general interest weeklies. More generally, the sheer number of photographs resulting from the use of Kodak technology prompted a more fluid use of montage-like techniques by album makers, for public and private use, including text and multiple image combinations, to build more dynamic visual narratives of experience on campaign than had hitherto been possible.
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Smirnova, E. E. "The Elements of Fantasy in Martine Franck’s Photography Projects of the 1970s-1990s." Art & Culture Studies, no. 2 (June 2024): 164–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.51678/2226-0072-2024-2-164-185.
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The purpose of this study is to discover the elements of fantasy in Martine Franck’s documentary photographs, as well as to analyse the completeness, intentionality, and persuasiveness of the created images of illusory existence. The object of the study is the projects of Martine Franck created in the 1970s‐1990s. What contributed to Franck’s creative method was education in art history, the artistic phenomena of the first half of the 20th century, and collaboration with her husband, a prominent figure in documentary photography, co‐founder and ideologist of Magnum Photos, Henri Cartier‐Bresson. Franck’s thematic repertoire is extremely diverse, which provides a sufficient array of images to identify patterns withing the stated research topic using mainly the method of comparative analysis. No other studies on the search for the elements of fantasy in Franck’s work have been found. The examination of Franck’s photographs has allowed systematizing the elements of fantasy in her documentary photography projects and analysing the master’s figurative language and selected technical solutions.
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Haran, Barnaby. "‘We Cover New York’: Protest, Neighborhood, and Street Photography in the (Workers Film and) Photo League." Arts 8, no. 2 (May 10, 2019): 61. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/arts8020061.
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This article considers photographs of New York by two American radical groups, the revolutionary Workers Film and Photo League (WFPL) (1931–1936) and the ensuing Photo League (PL) (1936–1951), a less explicitly political concern, in relation to the adjacent historiographical contexts of street photography and documentary. I contest a historiographical tendency to invoke street photography as a recuperative model from the political basis of the groups, because such accounts tend to reduce WFPL’s work to ideologically motivated propaganda and obscure continuities between the two leagues. Using extensive primary sources, in particular the PL’s magazine Photo Notes, I propose that greater commonalities exist than the literature suggests. I argue that WFPL photographs are a specific form of street photography that engages with urban protest, and accordingly I examine the formal attributes of photographs by its principle photographer Leo Seltzer. Conversely, the PL’s ‘document’ projects, which examined areas such as Chelsea, the Lower East Side, and Harlem in depth, involved collaboration with community organizations that resulted in a form of neighborhood protest. I conclude that a museological framing of ‘street photography’ as the work of an individual artist does not satisfactorily encompass the radicalism of the PL’s complex documents about city neighborhoods.
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Kobylińska, Weronika. "Carved by Light of Cities with a Chisel. Kraków Retable of the Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary Altar through Stanisław Kolowca 's Lens." Artium Quaestiones, no. 33 (December 30, 2022): 87–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/aq.2022.33.4.
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On two occasions (around 1932–1933 and after the war, between 1946 and 1950), Stanisław Kolowca (1904–1968) undertook the task of creating the photographic documentation of the reredos of the altar of the Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Kraków (Poland). The stature of Wit Stwosz’s work – widely recognized as one of the key late Gothic masterpieces in Europe – could be the only factor legitimizing the status of Kolowca’s photographs. Nevertheless, the photographs seem to deserve a thorough analysis for other reasons as well. It should be underlined that in his project Kolowca did not focus only on the most obvious shots illustrating the altarpiece. In addition to long shots and full shots showing the characteristic iconographic motifs and portrait-type close-ups, reflecting the mastery of key figures (such as Virgin Mary or John the Baptist), the photographer also created completely unexpected compositions that go beyond the codified frames of documentary photography. Consequently, his works fundamentally problematize the concept of photographic reproduction of an art piece.
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Johnson, James. "‘The Arithmetic of Compassion’: Rethinking the Politics of Photography." British Journal of Political Science 41, no. 3 (January 6, 2011): 621–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007123410000487.
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Compassion, theorists from Arendt to Nussbaum suggest, carries an ineluctable pressure to identify with individual suffering. The very idea of a politics of compassion verges on incoherence. Politics typically demands attention to the aggregate and it is just there that compassion falters. This is a problem for critics addressing the politics of photography, who typically presume that the point of photographs must be to elicit compassion among viewers. But a proper understanding of compassion makes this presumption highly problematic. The role of compassion in exemplary writings on the politics of photography reflects a fixation with ‘emblematic’ individual subjects in ‘classic’ American documentary practice, which prevents critics from properly grasping the best of contemporary documentary. The conclusion is that promoting solidarity provides a more plausible, if elusive, aim for the politics of photography.
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Yurchuk, Olena. "PHOTOGRAPHY AS A FORM OF STATEMENT AND MEANS OF FIXING PRESENCE IN A. PEREZ REVERTE’S BATALIST." CONTEMPORARY LITERARY STUDIES, no. 19 (March 15, 2023): 63–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.32589/2411-3883.19.2022.274082.
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Modern literary criticism pays much attention to the theme of photography in fiction. R. Barth and his followers emphasize the active interpenetration of the two arts, which results in a play with imprint, blur, and image. Photography turns out to be a point of reference for reconstructing the past. The photographic image claims to be an archival document necessary for reconstructing the past, and the photograph claims to be completely objective, though limited by a subjective position. In the plot of A Perez Revert’s novel «The Battler» the camera, as well as photography itself, occupies a special place. After all, it is the camera that helps the photographer to recreate the chosen object of reality, to turn a moment into time frozen in history. For a photojournalist, a camera is not just a device for creating photo frames, but a component of his life, a mechanism that works in harmony with his body. The camera forms the inner world of the photographer, projecting the reality around him. During the Croatian war of the early 1990’s, it allowed the combatant to see what he saw through the prism of his own emotions and beliefs and recreate it in a specific photograph. A photograph is not only a documentary fact, but also a work of art, because it is a unique combination of dozens of random factors that together affect the perception of the photographer, coincide in one moment, are focused by the lens and reflected in it. This text is part of a discourse about the changing status of the document and the role of the photographer in assessing events, his ethical position, and recording presence. The one who publicly manifests his individuality and creative potential to make his voice heard, or to demonstrate images and attribute to himself a certain autonomy in relation to the world and its institutions, sooner or later becomes an artist.
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Alves de Oliveira, Andreia, and Steve Edwards. "We Need More Documentary, and We Need More than Documentary: Interview with Art Historian Steve Edwards." Cabinet, Vol. 2, no. 2 (2017): 32–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.47659/m3.032.int.
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Steve Edwards teaches history and theory of photography and is a fiery, self-described “radical from a working-class background”, “post-Trotskyist” and “socialist feminist”, who reads “Marx and more Marx”. We met in 2016 in Lisbon at an academic conference on Photography and the Left, where he was one of the keynote speakers. Edwards’ paper tracked the changes in relation to the Left and the documentary movement in Britain from the 1970s to the present day, his argument consisting in that documentary and social class are closely entwined. This interview, done at Birkbeck, University of London, which he joined as a Professor at the beginning of this academic year, revisits the main themes of what was, in many ways, an enlightening and inspiring talk. Using the two terms – Photography and the Left – to frame and anchor the discussion, our exchange covers Edwards’ political education, the 1970s emergence of a key period in visual theory and subsequent mutations in political visual practice, up to its present status in a neoliberal society and the forms and intellectual basis of contemporary resistance to it. Although the exchange is centred on the British context, it is done so, however, with total awareness of it being an instance among others of documentary photography’s many global manifestations. It is with these manifestations that this interview aims to enter into dialogue, through its publication in a magazine with a global audience such as Membrana’s.
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Kim, Ji-Hoon. "Animating the Photographic Trace, Intersecting Phantoms with Phantasms: Contemporary Media Arts, Digital Moving Pictures, and the Documentary’s ‘Expanded Field’." Animation 6, no. 3 (September 21, 2011): 371–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1746847711417780.
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This article investigates the ways in which contemporary media artworks across various platforms provide a fresh look at the photographic inscription of reality by animating the still photograph with digitally produced movement. These artworks are based on what the author calls ‘digital moving pictures’, hybrid images in which photographic stillness and cinematic movement are interrelated in a single picture frame by the mediation of digital imaging systems. Examining the works of Jim Campbell, Ken Jacobs, David Claerbout, Julie Meltzer and David Thorne, the author argues that the pictures’ blurring of the boundaries between the live action and the animated images, and between the recorded and the manipulated, is meant to satisfy documentary epistephilia (a ‘desire to know’) and stimulate the viewer’s ‘pensive’ and ‘investigative’ engagements with the photographic trace as possible spectatorial modes of the documentary. The pictures then ask us to envision the documentary’s ‘expanded field’ (Rosalind Krauss), in which a series of binaries defining the modernist conception of the documentary are problematized, including prioritizing the photochemical qualities of analogue film and photography as directly guaranteeing evidential claims about their representations over the animated or graphically rendered image.
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Jordan, Shirley. "Not Yet Fallen: Memory, Trace and Time in Stéphane Couturier's City Photography." Nottingham French Studies 53, no. 2 (July 2014): 169–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/nfs.2014.0084.
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Harnessing concepts related to memory, trace, time and the archive, this article examines in detail the highly distinctive city photography of French photographer Stéphane Couturier. It focuses on the ways in which two of Couturier's major series, Archéologie urbaine (1994–2010) and Melting Point (2005–13), investigate the fabric of urban environments in Europe and beyond, concentrating in the first case on heritage layers and pockets of demolition or reconstruction, and in the second on the pervasive modular architecture of urban and peri-urban blocks. The article analyses the tension in Couturier between the photograph as documentary and as art, and situates the photographer – an architect by training – with regard to key nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century predecessors whose studies of the city in photography and in painting appear to resurface in his work and whose engagement with urban change and technological evolution he shares and updates for our time.
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Jakab, Tibor. "A tények megjelenítése a fotográfia médiuma segítségével – megrendezett és manipulált képek." Symbolon 22, no. 2 (2021): 79–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.46522/s.2021.02.07.
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"In the history of photography, we come across many staged and manipulated photographs. Most of these are press photos that would be intended to show as accurately as possible the recording of an event, for those who could not be there and only learn about everything that happened based on the image. The most important requirement of press ethics forums for press photos is to be as objective as possible in presenting the event. The photographer may not use any intentional image modification or manipulation to take the image. After it became clear that many of the images, we were dealing with are staged or manipulated photos, despite a lot of controversies, the reputation of the images was slightly tarnished, making the image incidental to questions about the documentary value. The photograph has become a symbol, the symbols have their own truth, believes Hans-Michael Koetzle. These cases prove that even in the case of many iconic works or photographs, the image becomes so symbolic that it adds to the background, background history and behind-the-scenes of the making of the images. They are unable to deduct anything in retrospect from the value of the work. I consider it important to examine the changes brought about by the digital revolution, both in the field of photography and in the way a press photographer works. The fundamental difference between analogue and digital images stems from the fact that although it is possible to manipulate analogue photos, we rarely encounter this, while in the case of digital images, image manipulation is the default."
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Moore, David. "The Lisa and John Slideshow (2017): A Play about Photography." Arts 12, no. 3 (May 26, 2023): 109. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/arts12030109.
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The Lisa and John Slideshow is a theatrical response to my own earlier photographic project, Pictures from the Real World. Colour Photographs, 1987–88, interrogating recurring theoretical questions that challenge the discourse of social documentary photography through an expanded practice. As a significant piece of research, devised through participation with those depicted within the image, the forty-five-minute play questions representational methods through an alternate medium. The project evokes what else was knowable from the terrain of possibilities when the sovereign images of the former project were captured, as it reaches into photographs, opening contextual focus on the social, political and relational aspects of production. This paper is drawn from my Ph.D. thesis, What the Subject Does. Lisa and John and Pictures from the Real World submitted to the University of Sussex in December 2022. The question asked within this commentary is: How can unequal power relations within photographic representation of working-class communities be renegotiated through trans-media practice and the use of theatre?
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Schaefer, William. "Poor and Blank: History's Marks and the Photographies of Displacement." Representations 109, no. 1 (2010): 1–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/rep.2010.109.1.1.
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Observing a conjunction between massive rural-to-urban migration and the recent documentary turn in Chinese art, this essay suggests some of the ways documentary photography works as a medium of historical thinking in contemporary China. Through the work of the photographer Zhang Xinmin, it examines the cultural politics of blankness and marked surfaces as representational strategies for exploring the intersection of historical remains and mass migration.
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Purwaningsih, Rindha Mita, Pamungkas Wahyu Setiyanto, and Oscar Samaratungga. "EKSOTIKA SUKU MENTAWAI DALAM FOTOGRAFI DOKUMENTER." spectā: Journal of Photography, Arts, and Media 2, no. 2 (April 24, 2019): 91–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.24821/specta.v2i2.2550.
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AbstrakObjek penciptaan karya fotografi membahas eksotika kegiatan sehari-hari suku pedalaman Mentawai, Siberut Selatan. Penciptaan karya didasari oleh minimya informasi tentang keseharian masyarakat pedalaman dusun Buttui dan diciptakan karya ini, diharapkan mampu memberi gambaran dan informasi tentang kehidupan para suku pedalaman di Mentawai melalui fotografi dokumenter. Penciptaan karya fotografi ini berorientasi dengan eksotika kegiatan sehari-hari suku Mentawai sebagai dasar acuan proses penciptaan dengan metode observasi,eksplorasi, pemotretan. Karya foto dibuat dalam fotografi dokumenter, dengan mengambil peristiwa-peristiwa yang menarik lewat bidang jurnalistik. Suatu cara pandang baru dan inspiratif bagi yang melihat dan merasakan dapat membuka mata kita seutuhnya tentang lingkungan budaya di sekitar kita yang mulai terkikis oleh kerasnya kemajuan dan ketatnya perkembangan zaman. Kata kunci: eksotika, suku Mentawai, fotografi dokumenter AbstractExotica of Mentawai Tribe in Documentary Photography. This abstract discusses the daily exotica of object creation in the heart of Mentawai, South Siberut. This work, with a lack of source information, is based on the daily lives of rural people in Buttui village. It is created with the hopes of capturing and giving information about the tribe lives in rural Mentawai through documentary photography. This abstract is oriented in Mentawai tribe as a basis creation process using observation, exploration, and experimental methods. The photographs are made with documentary photography that captures enticing events through journalism. A new perspective and inspirationwill completely open people’s eyes, for those who see and feel, on the nowadays cultural environment which slowly eroded by the rough progress and tight developmental era. Keywords: exotica, Mentawai tribe, documentary photography
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McFetridge, Alan, Antoinette Johnson, Emma Mcloughin, and Dan Devitt. "Songs for the Dead." Sophia Journal 7, no. 1 (December 15, 2022): 22. http://dx.doi.org/10.24840/2183-8976_2022-0007_0001_6.
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The Last Man - photo by Alan McFetridge Songs of the Dead is a photographic exploration of the aftermath of a devastating fire that impacted the community of Fort McMurray in Alberta Canada on the 3rd of May 2016. Six months after the fire, stimulated by media coverage and reflecting on the discourse surrounding dispossession and the environment, the project commenced at ground level with support of a Royal Photographic Society Environmental Awareness Bursary in a region inhabited by Anishinaabe1 located within Treaty 8 Territory, the traditional lands of the Cree, Dene and unceded territory of the Métis. The visual essay presented here is centred in the wake of a major fire event, however, it is also about human law and ecosystems. By traversing discussions on ethics within documentary photography and briefly exploring the history Aftermath of this medium, we argue how photography can better address socio-ecological issues within climate change through poetics. We offer a way of resisting the norms of documentary photography, resulting from subject and process-driven methods.
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Majewska, Martyna Ewa. "Composting the Monument: Pope.L, Police, and the Trouble With Representation." Visual Arts Research 48, no. 1 (June 1, 2022): 102–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/21518009.48.1.09.
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Abstract The ways in which we view, process, and respond to photographs of racialized policing and police brutality are conditioned by existing imagery. Yet the images we are most likely to encounter, and the ones we are therefore most accustomed to viewing, fail to account for the totality of racial injustices, violence, and oppression. Photography's ability to occlude inconvenient truths and reproduce certain power dynamics as opposed to others has been identified in numerous analyses of images documenting civil rights activism. Corroborating such findings, photographs capturing the street performances Pope.L began staging in the 1970s, particularly his numerous crawls through New York City's streets and gutters, intervene in the rehearsed, customary interpretations of civil rights photography and contemporary images of racialized policing. By regarding Pope.L's performance photographs not as mere documentary records but as a preconceived photographic project, this paper demonstrates that Pope.L's images offer an incisive commentary on representations of the civil rights struggle and the photographic construction of its icons. Together with his sculptures and mixed-media installations, such works challenge the post-racial discourse of successful completion inscribed in monuments to the leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, a discourse that has resurfaced and has been repurposed throughout recent U.S. history, up to and including the present day.