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Stead, Sarah. "PLACE, SPACE, AND FORM CAPTURED THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHIC MEDITATION." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2010. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4193.
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Inspired by Buddhist philosophy, the photographic series Architectural Zen attempts to beautify banal and pragmatic architecture through limiting and preexisting artificial light conditions. The selective illumination of artificial light eliminates the non-essential details and enhances the pure forms and saturated color presented by the camera lens. This encourages the photographer and the viewer to enter a state of meditation. The resulting process is similar to a Zen approach to image making. The ancient Zen artist s compositions are strengthened by a meditation on form and subsequent elimination of the non-essential elements of the subject. Through embracing this Zen mentality and mindfulness,aspects of Eastern aesthetic and balance also appear through the work. The warm glow of artificial lights, long recessed shadows, and surreal colors contribute to the feeling of rest, contemplation, isolation, and solitude. Although the work in Architectural Zen is not directly about Buddhist doctrines, the process of creating the art parallels the ideas and practices of Zen Buddhism and meditation, finding the Buddha nature of typically unappealing architectural forms during a different time of day.M.F.A.
Department of Art
Arts and Humanities
Studio Art and the Computer MFA
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Schoenwandt, Jeanne Marie. "Toward a feminist 'third space' : photographic 'sites' of cultural transformation." Thesis, McGill University, 1999. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=37725.
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This thesis examines the notion of a 'third space'. 'Third space' is a way to examine the question of culture in a time marked by large epistemic, political and representational shifts. Recent theorization of 'third space' often locates this as a cultural 'in-between' or field of liminality, beginning with the polarities of hierarchical and binary dualisms. The body, as one half of dualistic thought and practice, remains conspicuously absent from concepts of 'third space' and its activities. A series of dynamic modes of engagement, in which embodiment figures centrally, constitutes 'third space' in this theorization of it. Rather, however, than approach the articulation of a 'third space' solely through academic and literary texts, its primary 'sources' of 'information' to date, photographic imagery is proposed as a means to access 'third space'. The photographic, through its mediation of "vision," provides visual 'clues' by which to approach the "subjects" and "objects" of 'third space'. A trialectical relation of Visuality, Embodied Inter(ob)subjectivity and Space therefore characterizes a feminist approach to, and conceptualization of, 'third space'. An interpretative analysis of the contemporary photographic practices of Genevieve Cadieux, Marlene Creates, and Sylvie Readman contributes to an understanding of the significance of a notion of 'third space'.
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Sile, Agnese. "The space of love in photographic essays of illness narratives." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2016. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=231012.
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Santamas, Mihalis. "The space between : time, memory and transcendence in audio-photographic art." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2015. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/29144/.
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This portfolio and commentary documents an approach to audiovisual composition that utilises sound and photographic images in an effort to create immersive, affective art which I call audio-photographic art. When presented in an immersive context, I contend that the temporal dissonance between still image and sound opens up a space between the materials. I draw upon Gernot Böhme's writings on the aesthetic of 'atmosphere', as well as the the theoretical writings of Roland Barthes, Paul Ricoeur and Eleni Ikoniadou among others to illustrate how this experience is constituted. This space between is an affective conceptual space in which the participant enters into a relationship with the materials of the piece, transcending their usual perception of time as they are immersed in the internal times of the artwork, their own memories and atmosphere. Through the use of maximal aesthetics and atmosphere as compositional tool, these themes are explored and developed throughout the creative portfolio. In the written submission I study the practical and theoretical concerns of the space between from three perspectives: 'The Temporal Space', 'The Memorial Space' and 'The Atmospheric Space'.
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Naude, Elmarie. "Embodying space : Capture Image Gallery." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/30248.
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The city of Pretoria has a diverse mix of people moving in and around it. This dynamic, ever-changing movement, combined with the city’s cultural diversity, renders it ideal for an investigation into the relationship (or lack thereof) that exists between the moving body and architectural space. The city and its architectural spaces are viewed as static. The human body and its movement is dynamic. These static spaces cannot always accommodate the dynamic movement taking place within and around them. This leads to a lack of dialogue or interaction between the two, causing a tension which is further aggravated by the fact that they are situated within a constantly changing environment. The aim of this thesis is not only to examine the relationship between the city and the human body moving through its architectural spaces, but also to provide the platform for an investigation into the establishment of an active dialogue between the two. CAPTURE is envisaged as an experimental laboratory in the city of Pretoria. It aims to rejuvenate the city’s CBD, as well as to develop and promote arts and culture through the creation of a public exhibition space. It is a design intervention intended to create a space which captures and navigates its users through it, by exposing them to the different functions facilitated within it, as well as to the space and to each other. The introduction of this spatial intervention, informed by the existing pedestrian movement through an identified public thoroughfare, will encourage an active dialogue between the user and the space. Public art, in the form of the photographic image, has been identified as a possible means of communicating the user’s surroundings to him/her. This, in turn, may encourage interaction with, and interpretation of the space.Dissertation (MInt(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2009.
Architecture
unrestricted
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Baek, Juyeon. "A Piece of Space : Exploring photographic space as a visualized form of spatial experience and thinking about how a designer can position it in reality." Thesis, Konstfack, Inredningsarkitektur & Möbeldesign, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-7274.
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This project recognizes photographic space as a visualized form of spatial experience and tries to read unspecified spatial information in photos shared in social media. By exploring a photograph, I research how photography, which is a framing activity, has affected spatial experience and cognition. I try to re-build a space with photographs and compare the different characters of original space and photographic space by juxtaposition. The combination of original space and photographic space through a mechanism tool makes designers understand people’s experiential space over spatial hierarchy planned by designers. The project shows three-dimensional space made with photos using a photogrammetry method. It places original space and photographic space within a tool that mechanized the principle of Filippo Brunelleschi’s linear perspective. It highlights the multiple identities of space and visual form of photographic space. Also, by applying Henri Lefebvre’s theory to two different spaces and spatial practices, it gives a clue how designers can understand a photograph as a social product of spatial identity, an independent element from real space. A piece of space is an experiment spatial tool that draws people into multiple experienced spaces. It is tightly connected with spatial contexts; original space, photographic space and spatial practice by people. The whole process in the project consists of experiments that can explore the meaning of photographic space and how it can be positioned in reality.Some images have been removed for copyright reason.
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Mountain, Michelle Fiona. ""The secret rapport between photography and philosophy" considering the South African photographic apparatus through Veleko, Rose, Goldblatt, Ractliffe and Mofokeng." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002211.
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This thesis is an attempt at understanding South African photography through the lens of Nontsikelelo “Lolo” Veleko, Tracy Rose, David Goldblatt, Jo Ractliffe and Santu Mofokeng. Through the works discussed this thesis intends to unpack photography as a complex medium similar to that of language and text, as well as attempt to understand how exploring South African experiences and spaces through the lens of photography shapes and mediates them. Furthermore it also attempts to understand how these experiences and spaces conversely affect the discourse of photography or at the very least our perception of it. Through these photographers and their works it is hoped that ultimately the interconnected relationship of exchanging codes that takes place between photography and society will be highlighted. The example of connectivity or dialogue I believe exists between the medium of photography and the physical/social and psychological spaces it photographs will be mediated through Deleuze and Guattari‟s conception of “the wasp and the orchid” where “the wasp becomes the orchid, just as the orchid becomes the wasp...an exchanging or capturing of each other‟s codes”. Other theorists I will be looking at include Vilém Flusser, focusing in particular on his book Towards a Philosophy of Photography, as well as Susan Sontag, Roland Barthes and others. The main aims and objectives of this thesis are to understand the veracity of the documentary image and whether or not the image harbours any objective truth, as well as whether truth, if it can truly be said to exist in the world, resides between the camera and the seen world. This dichotomy is further complicated by the matter of subject-hood and technical and philosophical understandings of the camera as an apparatus. At no point do I aim to be conclusive, rather it is hoped that by developing the dynamic tension between the theory and the image world that I will be able to bring fresh insight into the reading of a changing South African condition and the subject position of the photographer in relation to this condition.
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Mota, João. "Beyond visibility and monumentality : photographic images in the public space : a study for two cases, Terreiro do Paço-Lisbon, Times Square-New York." Doctoral thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/15329.
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Doutoramento em DesignThis thesis seeks to address the issue of retrieving / adapting the tradition of site-specific large-scale images, (other than images commercially motivated) to contemporary architectural spaces. To achieve this we discussed a conceptual framework to introduce the constitutive and operative concepts of visual public art and spatial politics. Then we made a historical overview of former uses of images in the public arena with special emphasis in the public visual art produced after 1960. Based on those operative concepts, historical framework and on the analytical tools developed during this study, we developed a methodology for designing sitespecific large-scale images in the public space. This methodology is aimed at guiding the production of largescale visual art sensible to the different contexts playing an important role in the becoming of the project, and to incite a sense of placeness on the sites for which large-scale images were proposed. In this study we produced and discussed a group of projects for large-scale images for the squares: Terreiro do Paço – Lisbon and Times Square – New York City. Those projects were guided by the same design method and with the objective of making visible the memory and the contemporaneity of the squares in study. The choice of sites with such different cultural and historical background, was instrumental for understanding the feasibility of a method intended to help the production of large-scale images set in urban environments, sensible and related to complex contexts. The choice of these squares is based on the fact that both squares are unavoidable representations of power (governmental, financial, commercial), a condition that was instrumental in our study for making clear the implications that the history, the public sphere and the public space have on the context and on the actors that have a decisive role in the production of visual art in the public space. The images proposed for the two squares were not confined to photographic images, yet they played a central role. Beyond their instrumental value for the discussion of the method proposed, those projects were concerned with the production of informed commentaries pertinent to the squares in study. To achieve this, the proposed projects made use of their size, monumentally and visibility for the creation of places that stimulate a dwelling experience sensible to the specificity of the place. As a result some projects unveiled new paths/uses for the design of largescale images in the contemporary public space.
Esta tese pretende debater a questão de reaver a tradição do uso de imagens de grandes dimensões (outras que as imagens com motivação comercial) para os espaços arquitectónicos contemporâneos. Para alcançar estes objectivos, foi necessário entender a estrutura conceptual dos conceitos constitutivos e operativos da arte visual pública e da política do espaço. Seguidamente fizemos uma abordagem histórica dos usos de imagens no espaço público, com especial ênfase na arte pública produzida depois de 1960. Consequentemente, baseados nesses conceitos operativos, referências históricas e nos instrumentos analíticos desenvolvidos neste estudo, formulámos uma metodologia projectual para a criação de imagens de grandes dimensões no espaço público. Esta metodologia pretendeu ser um princípio orientador para a produção de arte visual de grandes dimensões, sensível aos diferentes contextos que têm um papel importante no devir do projecto, e se possível estimular um sentido de lugar nos locais para os quais as imagens de grandes dimensões foram criadas. Neste estudo, produzimos e discutimos um conjunto de projectos de imagens de grandes dimensões para as praças: Terreiro do Paço – Lisboa e Times Square – Nova Iorque. Estes projectos tiveram como princípio orientador o mesmo método projectual e foram planeados para tornar visível as questões significantes da memória e da contemporaneidade das praças em estudo. A escolha de locais com um contexto histórico tão diferente, foi instrumental para verificar a viabilidade de um método que tem a intenção de possibilitar a produção de imagens de grandes dimensões sensíveis à complexidade do contexto sobre o qual a sua existência depende. Além disso a escolha destas praças foi fundamentada no facto de ambas as praças serem inevitáveis representações do poder (governamental, financeiro, comercial). Uma condição que no nosso estudo foi instrumental para tornar claras as implicações que a história, a esfera pública e o espaço público têm no contexto e nos actores que têm um papel decisivo para o devir da arte visual nos espaços públicos. As imagens propostas para estas duas praças não foram restritas às imagens fotográficas, contudo estas tiveram um papel decisivo. Esses projectos, para além do seu valor instrumental na discussão do método proposto, visaram a produção de comentários esclarecidos sobre as praças em estudo, servindo-se da escala, monumentalidade e visibilidade inerente à natureza destes projectos, para a criação de lugares que estimulassem uma experiência de habitar sensível à especificidade do lugar. Consequentemente, alguns projectos revelaram novos rumos/usos para o design de imagens de grandes dimensões no espaço público contemporâneo.
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Adams, Bradley Jay. "Space Use and Annual Survival of Hybridized Mouflon Sheep in Hawaii and Comparing Estimates of Population Size through Instantaneous Sampling and Photographic Capture-Recapture." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2019. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/8260.
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Significant efforts in conservation are devoted to the management and study of ungulates, due to their significant roles in ecosystems as well as their potential economic value. This is especially true for species considered exotic, such as mouflon sheep (Ovis musimon) in Hawaii. Effective management of an exotic species requires an understanding of ecological metrics such as space use, survival, and population size. We provided these metrics for a population of mouflon that have hybridized with feral sheep (Ovis aries) on the island of Hawaii. In Chapter 1, we quantified space use and annual survival of sheep in an area where sheep are managed for hunting opportunity. We determined that sheep have relatively small home-ranges and high rates of annual survival (>90%). In Chapter 2, we provided the first estimate of population size for the same study area while simultaneously testing the viability of a novel method of estimating population size, currently known as Instantaneous Sampling. Using photographic capture recapture as a comparison method, we compared estimates derived from both techniques and provided support for Instantaneous Sampling as an alternative method for estimating population size.
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Bucksdricker, Luciane Silva. "Sometimes the same sky : construção de uma cartografia." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/135381.
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Sometimes the same sky: construção de uma cartografia trata do processo de realização de três séries fotográficas produzidas desde 2008. Partindo do processo de criação, questões sobre errâncias urbanas, espaço e lugar, ficção e realidade na elaboração da imagem fotográfica são abordadas nesse estudo. O texto carrega a vontade de montar uma cartografia própria que inicia com impressões sobre encontros no espaço público até chegar a exploração de objetos no espaço doméstico. A pesquisa teve início com a série de fotografias Salas de[não] estar, onde concentrei a reflexão nas errâncias urbanas e nas aproximações e distinções entre espaço e lugar, na série Zé, abordei o termo “deriva parada”, os tempos da vida e da fotografia e a tipologia como possibilidade de construção de imagem, e, por fim, na série Sometimes the same sky, o foco foi olhar para dentro do espaço privado e para as camadas sobrepostas das imagens produzidas.Sometimes the same sky: construction of a cartography discusses the process of making three photographic series since 2008. Starting from the process of creation, issues of urban wanderings, space and place, fiction and reality and the development of the photographic image are addressed in this study. The text carries a desire to build my own cartography that starts with impressions about meetings on public space until the exploration of objects in the domestic space. The research started with the photographs serie Salas de [não] estar where I focused the reflection in urban wanderings and in the similarities and distinctions between space and place, in the serie Zé, I discussed the term “drifting stop”, times of life and photography and typology as a possibility of construction the image, and lastly, in the serie Sometimes the same sky, the focus was looking into the private place and the overlapping layers of the produced images.
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Zacharias, Erica Ashley. "Gordon Matta-Clark's photographic spaces." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/38192.
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Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978) is best known for his experimental “building cuts,” in which he reconfigured whole architectural spaces slated for destruction in North and South America, and in Europe. An extensive scholarship theorizes Matta-Clark’s practice as a critique of his architectural education and a recuperation of the social spaces outside its purview. Today, audiences view Matta-Clark’s building cuts through the two-dimensional media of film and photography, further complicating the original works’ play with temporality and performance. Recent scholarship has seen photography as central to Matta-Clark’s performance-based and sculptural practice. This thesis addresses a gap in scholarship between Matta-Clark’s photography and his ephemeral works. Matta-Clark’s use of photography as document relates to the Land Art practice of exhibiting outdoor works inside the gallery. His photographs also engage in the photoconceptual practice of questioning that very documentary status. I trace three modalities for the photographic within Matta-Clark’s works: image (referent), object (medium), and apparatus (technology). I suggest that the photographic image is historically situated by the latter two categories as an ontologically specific space, at once material and abstract, technological and theoretical.
My research draws on theoretical discourses underpinning Modernist architecture. The role of photography is belied in Modernist architectural discourse, a mainstay of Cornell’s architecture program under the leadership of historian Colin Rowe, from which Matta-Clark received a BArch in 1968. I find an unstated connection between photography and phenomenal transparency, a term defined in Rowe and Robert Slutzky’s influential essay, “Transparency: Literal and Phenomenal,” where it is used to describe the abstraction of space in the work of Le Corbusier. I set up a theoretical framework for the conceptual role of photography in Matta-Clark’s practice by being attentive to the relationship between photography and architecture through the photographic slice, the visualized analog to the sculptural cut. I argue that in order to criticize the supposed transparency of both photography and architecture apparent in contemporary art practices and Modernist architectural discourse respectively, Matta-Clark’s work investigated the two media in tandem.
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Paz, Morales Antonio. "Light and Space Through Photography." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/49244.
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Photography now days challenge our perception of space, light, and architecture. Photography has challenge the way we perceive, interact and communicate in the world. In today society photography has find ways to communicate faster through images. Technology has played a big part on how we exchange pictures making it very accessible to all ages and cultures. As photography has become more accessible and it has become more technological advance, new challenges and problems have emerge. I consider that society has lost the ability to be aware of two basic essential elements which are light and space. These two elements are very important in photography but also in the human physical and emotional existence. I wanted to celebrate the learning process of photography and to be more conscious of the superficial
world we live in today. I consider that by educating new generation the process of light and space can influence how people can become more in touch with its spiritual being. By providing a educational space in Georgetown where people are able to interact with visual media and learn the process of photography can have a positive impact individually and collectively. Considering that many people visit Georgetown every year became a important portal to spread the knowledge globally.Master of Architecture
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Koca, Asli. "Authentication Of Space: The Photograph As A Raw Material For Architectural Production." Master's thesis, METU, 2009. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12611454/index.pdf.
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This thesis is a critical reconsideration of the relationship of architectural production with its unique mode of representation: &ldquophotography.&rdquo
Photography has been interpreted essentially as a technique and a visual medium to document architecture in general. The &ldquo
photograph,&rdquo
in this sense, is regarded as a representational form of documentation and an artistic and material expression of architecture. Besides this conventional value, this study argues that photography not only provides a new medium for the reinterpretation of architectural space, but also a new material and technique for architectural production. In this respect, this study discusses photography as an emerging tool for architecture in which the photograph is conceived as a raw material. As in the manufacturing of a raw material in an industrial process, the main argument of this study is that as long as a photograph is processed with required components, it contributes to architectural production in a comparable manner. Even it has the potential to produce architectural space in its own right. To understand the nature of this architectural space supported by a variety of physical and non-physical characteristics of photography, this study compares two different ways of architectural production with the aid of photographs. Starting with the assumption that there is a radical change in the conception of photography in architecture from an immaterial quality to material essence, this study argues that the photograph is a raw material that can be used to authenticate architectural space from the initial idea to the built object. Therefore, drawing attention to the changed value of photography for architecture over time, the aim of this study is to establish a critical framework to understand and discuss this contemporary function of photography in architecture.
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Richardson, Emily. "Articulating space : the translation of modern architectural space into filmic space through artists' film and moving image practice." Thesis, Royal College of Art, 2019. http://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/3844/.
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Using a practice-based method, the outcome of this research is a trilogy of films looking at three post-war modern prototype houses built by British architects. The examples chosen are: H.T. 'Jim' and Betty Cadbury-Brown's 3 Church Walk; Aldeburgh, Suffolk (1962); John Penn's Beach House, Shingle Street, Suffolk (1969) and Richard and Su Rogers' Spender House and Studio, near Maldon, Essex (1968). With each of the films a house is reconstructed on film, reactivating the architectural space as filmic space. The films explore the interaction between architectural space and its filmic translation using artists' film and moving image practice as a method to examine how the relationship between moving image and sound can activate architectural space to create a sensory experience on film, and to determine how the physical traces remaining contribute to new possible readings of the architectural examples considered. The combined research project and the films examine two architectures that are inhabited simultaneously: physical architectural space and filmic architectural space. Techniques and conventions of both documentary and artists' film and moving image practices such as critical and reflexive filmmaking, direct observation, archive research materials, sound composition from location recording and archive sound are used to rework space in filmic terms. Taking an individually tailored approach to each of the soundtracks of the films highlights the role of sound in activating architectural space on film. Following the premise of the house as a phenomenological concept set out by Gaston Bachelard and examining Giuliana Bruno's notion of the film viewer as voyageur as opposed to voyeur, the shift from optic to haptic is explored through my practice to examine how an architectural space can be translated to film in a way that goes beyond functional description into the realm of the poetic, narrative and the event. Several case studies of artists' films by Heinz Emigholz, Elizabeth Price, Man Ray and John Smith that take the modern house as subject are analysed to demonstrate a range of approaches to articulating space on film. How each one allows for a particular reading or understanding that operates outside of the official historical narratives of modern architecture is discussed. In the context of wider research into the interrelationships between film and architecture and the role moving image and sound play in interpretations of architectural space, this project shows how this practice-based method arrives at a contribution to knowledge of the particular buildings chosen, and how this method contributes to current readings of the modern house in film. New knowledge is generated on each of the case study buildings as evidenced through the films, which are an artistic response to each of the houses and through the writing, which gives a historical, theoretical and formal context to the works produced. In capturing these houses lost to architectural history, reactivating the spaces through moving image and sound the films, both individually and as a trilogy are a contribution to knowledge. Each acts as a record of a significant example of 1960s design at a moment in its history, adding to the archive of each and providing material for further research in the area.
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Alves, de Oliveira Andreia. "The politics of the office : space, power, and photography." Thesis, University of Westminster, 2014. https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/970v3/the-politics-of-the-office-space-power-and-photography.
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This practice-based research examines the relation between power, space, and photography, in relation to the office. It aims to investigate working conditions in service-based society, by addressing its dominant form of work: office work. Based on the hypothesis that office space has an effect on how office workers are made to work and feel, that it has not been sufficiently nor adequately addressed in documentary photography, the research proposes to employ documentary photography to investigate the relation between power and space in the office in relation both to actual offices and to their existing representations. Its questions are: how is space a means to exercise power in the office? Can this question be investigated through documentary photography? How, given the critique of documentary's (positivist) claims to truth? The research developed the concepts of witnessing and intervention as methods for the practice, positing documentary practice as the deliberate process of recording reality from a critical point of view, with the aim of making reality visible through images understood as visual arguments, thereby aspiring to criticality. Underpinned by a Foucauldian notion of power, the research developed an empirical visual enquiry accessing nearly fifty offices located in the City and Canary Wharf, London, informed by a study of power and space within organisation theory, organisation psychology and architecture and office design. The research produced a visual work titled The Politics of the Office comprising 128 photographs that give visibility to spatial power relations of hierarchy and control, physical and symbolic, and intervene in the structures of the photographic representation of the office space, through their visual strategy and their presentation as installation, thereby extending the documentary representation of the office space. The research further contributes to the theory of documentary photography by developing the concepts of witnessing and intervention. The research contributes to the understanding of spatial power relations in offices by allowing witnessing images of actual offices that are largely inaccessible to the general public.
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Kalpadaki, Evanthia. "The empty space in abstract photography : a psychoanalytical perspective." Thesis, University of Kent, 2008. http://www.research.ucreative.ac.uk/id/eprint/1062.
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The aim of the research that this thesis is based on is to explore the theoretical problems raised by the concept of photographic abstraction. These consist in the tension between the two aspects of the photographic sign, the indexical and iconic, and are examined in the context of the particular exploration of the empty space in abstract photography which I have pursued through my practice.
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Figliulo, Roberto. "Between public and private spaces: photographic visions in contemporary China." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/398145.
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The aim of this dissertation is to present a particular point of view on the contemporary Chinese photographic production. We will analyze the photographic works that deal directly or indirectly with the representation of concrete spaces. We will give special attention to the representation of public and private spaces and to the problems related to them.
We will analyze the period that coincides with the eighties until today, the time of particular development of photographic production in China. The methodology employed will be a multidisciplinary approach that allows to better understand the complexity of determinate phenomenon related to the spaces represented by the selected artists.
This research wants to present the Chinese photographic production through determinate criteria that enable the understanding of its relevance in the comprehensive Chinese current cultural production.El objetivo de esta disertación es presentar una visión concreta sobre la producción fotográfica china contemporánea. Se analizarán aquellos trabajos fotográficos que tratan de manera directa o indirecta la representación de espacialidades concretas, con mayor atención al tratamiento de las espacialidades pública y privada, y a las problemáticas a ellas conectadas. La época que se analizará es la que va del decenio de los Ochenta hasta hoy en día, un periodo de particular desarrollo de la producción fotográfica en China. La metodología aplicada conisistirá en un acercamiento multidisciplinar que permita comprender la complejidad de determinados fenómenos ligados a las espacialidades representadas por los artistas seleccionados. Esta investigación quiere presentar la producción fotográfica en China a través de un determinado criterio que permita comprender las numerosas facetas y la importancia que tiene en la actual producción cultural china.
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Leichnig, Kildine. "La patrimonialisation des espaces fluviaux urbains et l'expérience des usagers, visiteurs et habitants. Une approche comparée Pau (France) et Saragosse (Espagne)." Thesis, Pau, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PAUU1007/document.
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Cette thèse de géographie humaine porte sur l’expérience sensible qu’ont les usagers -visiteurs et habitants- d’espaces fluviaux en cours de patrimonialisation, dans deux villes du Sud-ouest de l’Europe : Pau et Saragosse. Soucieuses d’améliorer leur cadre de vie et de poursuivre leur développement économique et urbain, l’agglomération paloise et la ville de Saragosse tentent en effet de mieux intégrer leurs cours d’eau dans leur territoire en se lançant dans un processus de patrimonialisation. Toutefois, la place accordée au tourisme dans ces processus est pour le moins équivoque. L’offre touristique et de loisirs demeure peu structurée et exploitée par les pouvoirs publics, les attentes des visiteurs ignorées. La thèse vise à pallier pour partie ces lacunes en fournissant des éléments de connaissance de l’expérience sensible des usagers. En effet, ces derniers sont susceptibles d’enrichir le projet urbain et d’améliorer la prise en compte du potentiel de l’espace fluvial. Pour questionner l’expérience sensible, entendue dans ses dimensions sensorielles et émotionnelles, et faire émerger la parole des usagers, une démarche de recherche combinatoire a été adoptée. Elle repose sur de l’observation directe et participante et sur le recours à l’outil photographique et filmique comme support d’enquête à l’entretien. L’analyse des 137 rencontres a permis de dégager deux résultats majeurs : d’une part, l’expérience multisensorielle et fragmentaire des espaces fluviaux introduit un rapport intime à l’espace et au temps ; d’autre part, la méconnaissance de l’espace fluvial urbain ne signifie pas nécessairement que les usagers ne s’y intéressent pas et qu’ils n’ont pas d’avis sur les questions de nature-urbaines. Plus généralement, en interrogeant le rapport homme/espace fluvial ou autrement dit homme/nature, cette thèse révèle que ce dernier est perçu de manière ambivalente. Bien qu’apprécié, voire chéri, le cours d’eau est vu comme un espace naturel ordinaire ou possédant quelques éléments remarquables. Qualifié parfois de « sauvage », cet espace se doit toutefois d’être maîtrisé et contrôlé. L’approche géographique adoptée conduit ainsi à placer au cœur du projet urbain l’expérience (res)sentie et vécue par les usagers des espaces publics de natureThis human geography PhD thesis focuses on the sensitive experience that users – visitors and inhabitants - from two south-western European cities, Pau and Saragosse, have of the urban river spaces undergoing a process of patrimonialization. In their attempt to improve the quality of their living environment and carry on with their economic and urban development, the Pau agglomeration and the city of Saragossa are trying to better integrate their watercourses into the urban system through a process of patrimonialization. As for tourism, it holds an ambiguous place in these processes. The offer of tourist and leisure activities is hardly developed and exploited by the public authorities and visitors’ expectations are ignored. This research aims at mitigating some of these gaps by providing information on users’ sensitive experience. As a matter of fact, a better knowledge of users’ experience can enrich the urban project and increase awareness upon the potential of river spaces. In order to explore the sensitive experience, both in its sensory and emotional dimension and highlight users’ considerations, a combinatorial research approach was adopted. It relies on direct and participant observation and on the use of photographic and cinematic tool as a support during the interview. The analysis of the 137 interviews taken allowed the identification of two major results: on one hand, multisensory and fragmentary experience of river spaces generates an intimate reference to space and time and, on the other hand, the ignorance of the river space does not necessarily mean that users are not interested in river spaces, or that they have no opinion on urban nature issues. Extensively, by questioning the relationship between man and river space or in other words man and nature, this PhD thesis reveals that the latter is perceived in an ambivalent way. Although appreciated, and even cherished, the river is seen either as an ordinary natural space or as a place that holds certain remarkable elements. Sometimes qualified as wild, this space ought to be managed and controlled. With regard to the urban project, the geographical approach adopted determines the focus on the experience felt and lived by the users of natural public places
Esta tesis doctoral en geografía humana, examina la experiencia sensible que tienen los usuarios –visitantes y habitantes- en los espacios fluviales que están en proceso de patrimonialización, en dos ciudades del Sudoeste de Europa: Pau y Zaragoza. Estas dos localidades, con el objetivo de mejorar su entorno de vida e impulsar su desarrollo económico y urbano, intentan integrar el curso de los ríos en su territorio, desarrollando así un proceso de patrimonialización. No obstante, la posición concedida al turismo en estos procesos es confusa, ya que la oferta turística y de ocio queda poco estructurada y explotada por los poderes públicos. Además, las expectativas de los visitantes no se han tomado en cuenta. La tesis aboga por paliar en parte a estas carencias proporcionando elementos de conocimiento de la experiencia sensible de los usuarios. En efecto, estos últimos son susceptibles de enriquecer el proyecto urbano, mejorar y tener en consideración el potencial del espacio fluvial. Para estudiar dicha experiencia, entendida en sus dimensiones sensoriales y emocionales y hacer emerger la voz de los usuarios, se ha adoptado una metodología de investigación combinatoria. En ella se plantea la observación directa y activa y el recurso del instrumento fotográfico y cinematográfico como soporte de las entrevistas. El análisis de los 137 casos nos ha permitido destacar dos importantes resultados. Por una parte, la experiencia multisensorial y fragmentaria de los usuarios acerca de la patrimonialización de los espacios fluviales, que refleja una relación íntima entre espacio y tiempo. Por otra parte, el desconocimiento del espacio fluvial urbano, no significa necesariamente que los usuarios no posean ningún interés u opinión sobre los asuntos de la naturaleza en su entorno urbano. Estas entrevistas también plantean preguntas sobre el vínculo entre el hombre y el espacio fluvial, o entre el hombre y la naturaleza. En ellas hemos observado, que esta relación es percibida de manera ambivalente. Aunque el río es apreciado, y en ocasiones intensamente, representa un espacio ordinario que posee para ciertos usuarios elementos remarcables. Descrito en ocasiones como “salvaje”, debe no obstante ser controlado. A través del enfoque geográfico adoptado en esta tesis, queremos resaltar el lugar céntrico de estos espacios fluviales dentro del proyecto urbano y la experiencia vivida por los usuarios dentro de la naturaleza
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Rawles, Erica M. "The Changing Meanings of Memory, Space, and Time in Photography." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1520.
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What happens to the memories that are left behind in photographs when the person who’s memories they are passes away? After the passing of both my mother and my grandmother, I began to notice the fleeting significance of photographs. I spent time going through boxes of pictures they had saved and every so often I would come across an old photo of someone or something that no one in my family could find a meaning behind or attach a significance to. This paper reveals how the meaning and importance of photographs shift over time from the perspective of the photographer to that of the preserver.
I discuss the history of photography and its evolution from a purely scientific method of recording to fine art. I also discuss the psychology behind taking a photograph, looking at the art historical and philosophical writings of Susan Sontag and John Berger to discover how photography relates to memory, nostalgia, mortality, and the presence of the absent. Putting my own work in a historical context, I examine the works of contemporary artists dealing with similar themes of photography, physical space, and memory, such as Carmen Argote, Manal Al Dowayan, Christian Boltanski, and Doris Salcedo.
For my senior project, I contemplate the mystery behind my mom's decision to photograph unsuspected places. I explore the passage of time and the vulnerability of memories as they relate to photography. Through an installation of hanging panels of photographs printed on sheer fabric, my piece works to explore these two main themes: the preservation of memory and the space that grief fills.
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Thoma, Andrea. "Thought dwellings : time and space in painting, photography and video." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.658561.
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The practical and theoretical research of this PhD examines the complexities of time-space relations in painting, photography and video. The aim of this study has been to develop a body of work that generates an increased awareness of how the juxtaposition of diverse fine art media can contribute to a differentiated appreciation of the time-space relation. Further objectives were to explore how the dichotomy of absence (of figuration) and presence (of figurative elements) can inform reflections on place relating to Martin Heidegger's 'Dasein' as being-in-the-world and Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's 'nomadic' perception within 'smooth' and 'striated' space. Drawing from Henri Bergson's concept of 'duration as multiplicity' as an oscillation between presence (actual) and absence (virtual), this study, whilst acknowledging Bergson's critique of spatializing time, considers opportunities within contemporary fine-art practice to develop a spatial configuration involving multiple coexisting durations. Thought Dwellings, initially the title for a body of paintings and photographs (1998) concerned with place, later (since 2003) also began to incorporate video, thus enabling a triangulation of painting, photography and video to consider movement and stillness across all these categories. I propose a new terrain where the either/or/and of photography/painting, photography/video or painting/video becomes this as well as that of painting/photography/video allowing - whilst upholding medium-specificity - the physicality of painting to inform the technologies of lens-based media to arrive at a differentiated time-space relation. These practical concerns are supported by theoretical explorations involving place and dwelling, medium-specificity in a 'post-medium' age, minimalism, phenomenology and time-space relations. Within Deleuzian 'becoming', as coexistence of difference rather than dialectics of either/or; Jacques Derrida's differance and Bracha L. Ettinger's 'Matrix' as coming together of 'I and non-I' to reflect the feminine - Thought Dwellings involves movement between images, an oscillation between presence and absence proposing an audio/visual spatialization of 'duration as multiplicity'.
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Higgins, Robert Francis. "Hercules attitude processor /." This resource online, 1992. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06062008-165739/.
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Moore, Peter R. "Photography & rephotography : repetition and places in time." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2016. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=230713.
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Little research has been undertaken into the rapidly expanding genre of rephotography, where many developments have taken place in response to advancing technology. This thesis is practice-based and incorporates long-term fieldwork in Scotland. The primary rephotographic projects undertaken by practitioners in North America are reviewed and their innovative presentation of material to interpret changes to space and place through time, are assessed and analysed. This study considers the application of some of these practices in a Scottish context. The research sets out to collate and explore repetition through the construction of visual narratives and to better understand the representation of change in people and places over time. The narratives unintentionally formed when places are photographed and rephotographed by multiple practitioners are considered along with the establishment and consequences of iconicity. In a Scottish context, the research identifies three major sources of photographs: the closely aligned nineteenth century tourism-generated catalogues of George Washington Wilson and Valentines of Dundee and the Catalogue of the Countryside of Scotland created by Robert Moyes Adam. The overall picture that emerges from the research is one of opportunity with increasing democratic application, improved accuracy and greater ability to present and share results. Rephotography is known to be a powerful tool for the discernment and measurement of visible change and suggests avenues that might inform the interpretation and utility of repeated images. This research provides an overview from which limitations can be assessed or innovative application devised. While comparative monitoring may remain a primary application, projects – some sentimental and reflective - that explore personal experience, memory and loss can be explored with rephotography.
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Hatt, Emeline. "Requalifier les stations touristiques contemporaines : une approche des espaces publics – Application à Gourette et Seignosse-Océan –." Phd thesis, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00683463.
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Face au constat du vieillissement des stations touristiques fordiennes créées ex nihilo, en France, dans les années 1960-1970, ce travail de doctorat en aménagement et urbanisme pose la question de leur requalification. Dans ce champ disciplinaire et professionnel, l'analyse de l'image urbaine des destinations touristiques n'a guère été traitée. L'échelle d'appréhension microterritoriale est privilégiée ici, afin de décrypter les modalités conjointes de leurs structurations et de leurs représentations. On a observé dans quelle mesure l'aménagement et la gestion des espaces publics participent à l'image et à la notoriété des destinations, tout en proposant un outil d'aide à la réflexion et à l'élaboration des projets de requalification. Dans ces stations " archipels ", coupées de l'habitat traditionnel existant, la faible proportion d'habitants permanents a conduit à donner la parole à des interlocuteurs qui en sont les destinataires essentiels : les " touristes ", généralement tenus à l'écart de l'exercice de concertation et de conception urbaine. À la croisée des recherches en urbanisme et en tourisme, l'intérêt s'est porté sur les représentations que ces habitants temporaires se font des espaces publics dans lesquels ils vivent et qu'ils font vivre en retour. Plus précisément, l'objectif de cette recherche consiste à révéler, par une enquête photographique, les marqueurs microterritoriaux identifiés par les touristes, sur lesquels les projets de requalification pourraient, le cas échéant, prendre appui. Axées sur la "libre" catégorisation de plus de cent trente images, ces enquêtes ont été menées à titre expérimental dans une station littorale (Seignosse-Océan) et une station de montagne (Gourette). Ces destinations sont abordées par une approche transversale pensant la réciproque entre leur conception (modalités de structuration urbaine) et leur réception (les représentations des touristes), afin de mieux saisir les enjeux de leur restructuration. Quels sont les lieux urbains emblématiques ? Comment envisager leur valorisation et leur mise en scène ? Quelle place accorder aux piétons dans ces stations qui ont laissé la part belle aux circulations motorisées ? Autant de questions qui ont émergé dans ce travail de recherche centré sur la caractérisation du vieillissement et l'identification des enjeux de requalification de ces destinations aujourd'hui cinquantenaires.
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Marwah, Kshitij. "Tensor photography : exploring space of 4D modulations inside traditional camera designs." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/91833.
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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2013.62
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 95-99).
Light field photography has gained a significant research in the last two decades: today, commercial light field cameras are widely available demonstrating capabilities such as post-capture refocus, 3D photography and view point changes. But, most traditional acquisition approaches either multiplex a low resolution light field into a single sensor image or require multiple photographs to be taken for acquiring high resolution light field. In this thesis, we design, implement and analyze a new light field camera architecture that allows capture and reconstruction of higher resolution light fields in a single shot. The proposed architecture comprises three key components: light field atoms as sparse representation of natural light fields, an optical design to allow capture of optimized 2D light field projections and robust sparse reconstruction methods to recover a 4D light field from a single coded 2D projection. In addition we also explore other applications including compressive focal stack reconstructions, light field compression and denoising.
by Kshitij Marwah.
S.M.
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Hotsko, Jennifer. "Beyond the frame : a liminal space in contemporary South African photography." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9231.
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Includes bibliographical references.Anthropologists and ethnographers documenting the African subject – as soldiers of the colonial enterprise, dominated early practices of photography in Africa. These endeavors manufactured a visual narrative that was uniform in its approach to Africa's landscape, which largely persists in the popular imagination.In the early 1990s with the fall of apartheid and transition towards democracy, South Africa's landscape witnessed a new current in the medium of photography; photographers who had been documenting the 'struggle' were suddenly deprived of the central focus of their work. Creative artistic expression, which had been largely restricted, blossomed. This paper examines four of South Africa's 'new generation' of photographers who have seen unprecedented success both in South Africa and in the West. This paper examines whether these photographers and their images are confronting and challenging the stereotypical stock photographs that have misrepresented South Africa's landscape.
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Gardner, Lisa. "Organic Space." VCU Scholars Compass, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10156/1371.
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Trillo, Derek. "'The flow of life' : photographing architecture as populated spaces." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2017. http://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/621298/.
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Many critics have highlighted the gulf between the experience of architecture and its representations via photography, suggesting a more humanistic and temporal portrayal. My research questions whether, in pursuing alternatives to conventional, commercial architectural photography, a more dynamic view can be revealed, one that is closer to the experience of encountering the built environment: episodic, temporal and in flux. I believe temporality and motion are indicative of the life of a building: both habitually omitted from traditional commercial representations. Practical and conceptual challenges directed me to techniques depicting ‘still’ and ‘moving’, that intersect with several of photography’s discourses: the evidential value of images constructed over time, the perception of movement in still photography and negotiations between description and creativity. My methodology is an empirical investigation drawing on principles of the scientific analysis of motion (chronophotography): interpretive, yet with evidential rigour. This allies to Henri Bergson’s concept of duration, Futurism, Cubism and cinematic animation, whence I take the portrayal of motion and multi-point perspectives in still images. By identifying examples from painting and illustration, I reveal a temporal approach, building up images over time, utilising observation, interpretation, editing, iteration and presentation. My subject matter is limited to what is found and what appears during each session; from this bricolage of serendipitous events selections are made throughout the practice’s reiterative process. I argue the case for appropriating the artist’s licence to interpret, producing an abbreviation of a longer period while remaining informative. I challenge Kracauer’s contention that the true ability to depict the city is exclusive to cinema, by using a static medium to represent ever-changing landscapes populated by transient characters in ephemeral scenes. My practice bridges the gap between architectural photography and the ‘photography of architecture’. I identify two anomalies that inform the practice: firstly the difference between mainstream architectural photography during the inter-war period and concurrent, vibrant, animated representations of the city in film and painting. Secondly, my case studies illustrate differences between architectural photography and visual representations in other media (CAD-generated images, architectural models and sketches); the animated nature of the latter negating the notion of commercially-driven work being necessarily objectified, pristine and sterile.
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Sotinel, Frédéric. "Itinéraires urbains." Phd thesis, Université Rennes 2, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00813183.
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Cette thèse est basée sur une approche empirique des espaces urbains, enrichie de nos réflexions personnelles et de nos recherches. Notre questionnement principal concerne les liens entre forme et usage, par exemple dans quelle mesure la configuration d'une ville, ou d'un quartier, est déterminée par les activités humaines et les modes de vie actuels et à venir de ses habitants. Nous avons retenus plusieurs exemples significatifs dans différentes métropoles, surtout à Berlin, mais aussi à Helsinki, Londres, Montréal et New York. Avec notre position d'architecte--‐photographe, nos itinéraires sont un bon moyen d'explorer et d'essayer de comprendre les espaces urbains. En tant que photographe et témoin de situations urbaines singulières, nous sommes ancrés dans le présent, et nous recherchons ce qui façonne l'identité d'un lieu particulier, nous traduisons nos observations par la photographie qui nous aide ultérieurement à développer notre réflexion et à organiser nos arguments. En tant qu'architecte, nous examinons ces situations urbaines, nous analysons les principes et les objectifs urbains et architecturaux qui les sous--‐tendent de manière à identifier les modes d'articulation entre forme et usage. Nous plaçons ainsi les processus de transformation urbaine dans leur ouverture à l'évolution de la société. Les itinéraires urbains nous conduisent à percevoir et à penser la ville dans ses rapports de proximité en tant qu'espace pour la vie
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Vaughters, Amy Lillian. "Delineated Space." VCU Scholars Compass, 2007. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd_retro/58.
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This document is a detailed description of the work produced throughout my graduate study in the Department of Photography and Film at VCU. Topics discussed in relation my photographic process include: stage, memory, character, the forgotten, and nostalgia.
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Martin-Rainaud, Claude. "Dans le regard de la chambre." Thesis, Avignon, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015AVIG1143/document.
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Par un trou, l’image renversée de ce qui se trouve à l’extérieur se projette à l’intérieur d’une chambre obscure. Ce phénomène, à l’oeuvre en permanence dans les espaces naturellement sombres, dans les yeux de l’homme et de la plupart des animaux, occasionnellement à l’intérieur de l’habitation, est aussi le principe à la base de la photographie et du cinéma. Ce problème d’optique a été observé et décrit pour la première fois en Europe dans les Problemata d’Aristote. Au cours des siècles, ce principe du «phénomène de la camera obscura» a été étudié et utilisé pour mesurer le temps et l’espace, effectuer des observations et des expériences astronomiques, produire des images ou des spectacles. Ces dernières décennies, les sciences ont démontré que pour prendre vie, se reproduire et évoluer, la matière s’est emparée progressivement de ce phénomène issu de la lumière. À travers la vision, il a un rôle premier dans notre perception du monde et notre conscience d’être. Cependant, rares sont les études de ses caractéristiques et de ses applications naturelles, techniques et esthétiques. Notre recherche voudrait contribuer à faire émerger une cohérence globale dans ces domaines. La méthode utilisée ici repose sur une pratique artistique de la capture photographique dans la camera obscura elle-même des images qui y apparaissent. En outre, cette pratique s’appuie sur une approche analytique fondée sur un choix de sources philosophiques, scientifiques et romanesques, poétiques et cinématographiques. Nous suivons d’abord à travers ces documents la genèse des objets techniques qui se rattachent au phénomène de la camera obscura. Puis la recherche se focalise sur certains artistes qui sont présumés avoir fait usage, ou qui ont effectivement employé des appareils «optiques» pour réaliser leurs oeuvres depuis le quinzième siècle. Nous concluons sur la démarche et l’oeuvre de certains photographes contemporains qui se consacrent à photographier le phénomène de la camera obscura, dont les travaux ouvrent à l’art de la photographie des perspectives inédites, tout en se référant à des questions picturales fondamentalesThrough a hole, the inverted image of what is outside, is projected inside a dark room. This phenomenon,constantly at work in naturally sombre closed spaces, in the eyes of humans and most animals, occasionallyinside habitations, is also the optical principle that made photography and motion pictures possible. This opticalproblem was observed and described for the first time in Europe by Aristotle in his Problemata. Then, over thecenturies, this “camera obscura phenomenon” was studied and used to measure time and space, makeastronomical observations and experiments, produce images or theatrical performances. In the last few decades,science has demonstrated that for matter to come to life, breed and evolve, it has gradually taken hold of thisphenomenon produced by light. Through vision it plays a fundamental role in our intimate perception of theworld and our self-consciousness. However, few academic studies address its natural, technical as well asaesthetic characteristics. This research will try to bring forth a global coherence in this field. The method that weuse is founded on our artistic practice of the photographic capture of the images as they appear inside thecamera obscura. In addition, this practice is also based on an analytical approach founded on a range ofphilosophical, scientific and fictional sources including poetry and movies. We follow through these documentsthe genesis of the technical objects related to the camera obscura phenomenon. Then, our research focuses onsome artists alleged to have, or have actually utilized "optical" devices to perform their works of arts since thefifteenth century. We conclude with the approach and practice of some contemporary photographers committedto photographing the camera obscura phenomenon, whose works of arts open new perspectives forphotographic art, yet still refer to fundamental questions about art
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Green, Nigel. "Photography and the representation of modernist architectural space : from the melancholy fragment to the colour of utopia." Thesis, University of Kent, 2007. http://www.research.ucreative.ac.uk/id/eprint/1060.
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The questions that this project poses are centred on an examination of photography's relationship to modernist architectural space. Polarising the melancholic and the utopian, the definition of photography is extended to include its manifestation across a number of diverse sites and processes. What is the connection between the processes and technology of photography and its representation of modernist space? How can these relationships inform and articulate a photographic practice? This thesis comprises five key areas of investigation, with each theoretical chapter being followed by a complementary sequence of photographic images. The first section considers the process of `fragmentation' in relation to a body of photographs which I have termed `fragments'. These images reveal the aspirational or utopian content of modernist architecture as a condition of loss or melancholy. The second section develops the notion of the `fragment' in relation to `allegory', which I argue, opens photography to metaphoric interpretation thus taking on the duality of meaning. The third section uses W. G. Sebald's novel Austerlitz and Kracauer's work on history, to locate this duality within Husserl's Lebenswelt. The fourth section shifts the emphasis of inquiry towards an examination of how the utopian emerges within specific aspects of the photo-reprographic process, such as the error of misregistration in colour printing. This forms the basis for a development of the practice into the field of the photographic representation of colour. The fifth section looks at how colour has been added to the monochromatic image in a series of postcards of modernist architecture from the 1930's thus suggesting a site of utopian investment With reference to Kristeva and Benjamin I develop the notion of colour as an excess of meaning indicative of utopian aspiration. The conclusion of the project is firmly located in the practice outcome and a body of work, which I have termed `constructed images'. Representing a convergence of the five themes, these reveal the ability of photography to uniquely articulate the utopian-melancholy polarity, a transformative process, intervening into architectural space to indicate new ways of thinking about it.
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Wampler, Carson A. "Ideas of space." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2007. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1051.
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Prieto, Aguaza Alberto. "Imagen fotográfica y textualidad. La obra de Wright Morris, Duane Michals y Sophie Calle." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/7442.
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Aparentment la funció de la imatge és la d'il·lustrar l'acció que es desenvolupa al text i la funció del text és explicar allò que visualitzem a la fotografia. Més enllà d'aquesta complementarietat, les relacions s'amplien a la imatge fotogràfica, davant les imatges sintètiques, pel seu estatus com a index. El diàleg entre ambdós mitjans expressius genera una alteració mútua, d'una banda a les coordenades espai-temps i d'una altra a la noció de referencialitat; és a dir, ni una fotografia és únicament un document real ni un text, és una ficció. S'observen aquestes relacions a les obres de Wright Morris, Duane Michals y Sophie Calle a través d'un element visual i conceptual característic de cada un d'ells -finestra, mirall i ombra- que relaciona la forma de conèixer el món i conèixer el jo.Aparentemente la función de la imagen es la de ilustrar la acción que se desarrolla en el texto, mientras que éste debe explicar lo que vemos en aquella. Más allá de esta complementariedad, las relaciones se amplían en el caso de la imagen fotográfica, frente a las imágenes sintéticas, debido a su especial estatus como index. El diálogo entre ambos medios expresivos genera una alteración mutua, tanto de las coordenadas espacio-temporales como de la noción de referencialidad: ni una fotografía es sólo un documento real ni un texto literario una ficción. Se observan estas relaciones en la obra de Wright Morris, Duane Michals y Sophie Calle mediante un elemento visual y conceptual característico de cada uno de ellos -ventana, espejo y sombra- que relaciona la manera de conocer el mundo y de conocerse uno mismo.
At first sight, the role of the image is to illustrate the action taking place within a text, whereas this one has to explain what we see in the image. Beyond this collaboration, we find deeper relationships when talking about photographic image, in opposition to synthetic images, due to its special status as index. Dialogue between photography and a so-called literary text creates a mutual alteration, related not only to time and space but also to the question of referentiality: neither a photograph is only a real document nor a text is a fiction. We observe these changes in the works of Wright Morris, Duane Michals and Sophie Calle by means of three visual and conceptual elements -window, mirror and shadow- which connect the way to know the world and ourselves.
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Otte, Gary (Gary James) Carleton University Dissertation Architecture. "Photographing the void: the camera and the representation of Islamic architecture." Ottawa, 1999.
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Fein, Zachery E. "The Aesthetic of Decay: Space, Time, and Perception." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1305892741.
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Lu, Nadine Chi-mei 1965. "Radiometric sensitivity comparisons of multispectral imaging systems." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/277036.
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Multispectral imaging systems provide much of the basic data used by the land and ocean civilian remote sensing community. There are numerous multispectral imaging systems which have been and are being developed. A common way to compare the radiometric performance of these sensors is to examine their noise equivalent change in reflectance, NEDeltarho. The NEDeltarho of a sensor is the reflectance difference that is equal to the noise in the recorded signal. In order to directly compare the sensors, calculations of the parameter being compared need to have a common basis. This thesis compares the noise equivalent change in reflectance of seven different multispectral imaging systems (AVHRR, AVIRIS, ETM, HIRIS, MODIS-N, SPOT-1/HRV, and TM) for a set of three atmospheric conditions (continental aerosol with 23 km visibility, continental aerosol with 5 km visibility, and a Rayleigh atmosphere), five values of ground reflectance (0.01, 0.10, 0.25, 0.50, and 1.00), a nadir viewing angle, and a solar zenith angle of forty-five degrees.
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Estepa, Juan. "An exploratory adaptation of Visitor Employed Photography for determining the open space preferences of seniors." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ47322.pdf.
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Garner, Kelsey. "Why do students take photographs on geology field trips connections between motivations and novelty space /." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1211556530.
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Garner, Kelsey Lynn. "Why Do Students Take Photographs on Geology Field Trips: Connections Between Motivations and Novelty Space." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1211556530.
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Valuskova, Najib Malin. "Fragments of forgotten spaces." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-229860.
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This thesis takes its starting point in four Stockholm locations; a self-service laundromat, a residential townhouse, a pedestrian tunnel and a public bath. They have emerged during different times but are brought together by their habitual and mundane character. They possess qualities that may not be seen at first glance, but becomes visible at a second or third viewing. The aim for this thesis has been to find what lies slightly out of sight – hidden yet visible. Through several steps of translations and fragmentation new scenarios have emerged.
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Padfield, D. "Mask - Mirror - Membrane : the photograph as a mediating space in clinical and creative pain encounters." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2013. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1421421/.
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Pain is difficult to communicate and constrict into the verbal or numerical scales commonly used. This thesis explores how photographic images can expand pain dialogue in the consulting room to include aspects of experience frequently omitted using traditional measures. It draws on material generated by the face2 face project, a collaboration with facial pain specialist Professor Joanna Zakrzewska and clinicians and patients from University College London Hospitals. The project has many strands: art workshops for clinicians and patients to attend together; the co-creation of photographs with facial pain patients reflecting their experience at different points in their treatment journey; the creation of an image resource developed as an innovative communication tool for clinical use; and an artist’s film focusing on doctor-patient dialogue and the role of narrative. The thesis argues that photographs of pain placed between patient and clinician can trigger more negotiated dialogue in the consulting room. It presents the co- creation of ‘pain portraits’ with pain sufferers as part of a Fine Art practice, extending the boundaries of what is considered Fine Art by shifting the power- dynamics inherent within the act of portraiture. Through shared control of the lens and a negotiated aesthetic, pain sufferers retain control of how their pain is visualised, instead of being on the passive receiving end of a medical/photographic gaze. The thesis explores and questions the specificities of photography as a particularly apposite medium for this work. It validates and makes visib le the invisible subjective experience of pain, addressing its incommunicable nature. Semiotic and metaphoric analyses of the material reveal the possibility of a developing inter-subjective and trans -cultural iconography for pain. The thesis aims to demonstrate that not only is medicine capable of providing new material for the gallery space, but art is capable of bringing new knowledge into the consulting space.
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Benson, Jennifer L. "Properties of water ice clouds over major Martian volcanoes observed by MOC /." Connect toOnline Resource-OhioLINK, 2006. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?acc_num=toledo1163799718.
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Sonzogni, Annalisa. "Reconfigurations of interior spaces : an investigation through photography, architecture and site-specific installation." Thesis, Kingston University, 2015. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/37869/.
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This thesis examines the mechanisms of site-specific installation in photography, drawing on contemporary architectural debates around relationships between image and space, as well as debates in fine art around participatory practices involving installation. The project has involved a synthesis of practical research, through the production of artwork, throughout the research period. I consider the outcomes of writing, photographing and photographic installation to be at parity with one another, in the spirit of what Jane Rendell calls 'critical spatial practice'. The focus and physical context for this inquiry is the former Lilian Baylis School, built in 1964 by the Architects' Co-Partnership (ACP) for the London County Council in the Borough of Lambeth. It served its function as a school up until 2005 after which it was used for community programmes. In 2011 the site, by then Grade II listed, was restored and converted into new flats. The concept of visual memory serves as a theoretical basis of my project. I take up architect Aldo Rossi's idea of acting as a way of tracing a process of transformation, and also using these traces as a form of site-specific intervention, as an action in relation to this transformation. These aspects of transformation inform the work of making visible the memory of a place through photography and its spatial installation, engaging viewers in this process.
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Peláez, Ana María. "Le toucher du visuel /." Thèse, Chicoutimi : Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 2005. http://theses.uqac.ca.
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Esfahani, Najva. "La muse : théâtre et théâtralité dans la photographie de mode." Thesis, Paris 5, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA05H022.
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L’étude se construit sur deux axes. Dans le premier, elle cherche à expliciter la fonction du lieu dans la séance photographique de mode, la manière dont la rêverie du photographe crée dans sa pensée un mannequin qui correspond à un espace ; ou bien, un endroit qui ressemble au modèle. Par une observation esthético compréhensive et une démarche phénoménologique, la recherche se concentre sur l’imaginaire de l’espace clôt dans l’image de mode, le logis, la maison, la chambre, etc. Tout en nous positionnant sous un angle holistique ; le concret avec le transcendant, le microcosme avec le macrocosme sont mis en relation. C’est alors que nous percevons la valeur du terroir et du territoire dans l’image de mode. Agissant comme un miroir reflétant le réel et notre société actuelle, la photo devient un monde en miniature. Après la rêverie de l’habitat, son image et son interrelation avec la personne, le réel et le groupe social, dans un deuxième axe, nous nous intéressons à la présence du modèle. La présentation du mannequin lors du casting s’appuie sur la sociologie interactionniste en observant les habitus du modèle, les comportements appris et répétés, ainsi que les imitations dans un contexte donné, dans une scène. C’est aussi la flexibilité du mannequin qui attire notre attention, son interaction avec le photographe, ainsi que le jeu devant la caméra. De plus, la représentation du modèle devant l’appareil puise sa source dans l’inconscient collectif et mythologique. En faisant une comparaison entre le jeu devant l’appareil technique et les théâtres archaïques et traditionnels, nous constatons que, dans le jeu du mannequin, il se manifeste des incarnations archétypales. Celles-ci se distinguent des habitus et des comportements appris, ainsi que des émotions. De même, l’influence du « bassin-sémantique » et la vitalité du mythologique, prennent lieu dans un espace-temps présent. C’est alors par la description qu’on aboutit à une explication ; il s’agit de procéder par la démarche comparative qui déplace le centre culturel et historique en l’alignant en parallèle avec d’autres systèmes. Cette démarche est donc concrètement plurilatérale. C’est ainsi que nous décryptons le retour, à notre époque, de l’archaïque, à la fois en observant le contenu de l’image photographique et la représentation du mannequin devant la caméra. Nous tissons donc, selon la méthode comparative weberienne et durandienne, des liens entre différents phénomènes n’ayant pas la même finalité, mais possédant la même formeWith considering our observations in the field, there is a return of the archaic in the superficial aspects of existence as fashion photography. We noticed that on the one hand, models intended to look at fashion magazines and to reproduce the poses and attitudes of the current season, and doing so, they continued to represent socially the models attitude and confirm the position in a community. On the other hand, we noticed a similarity between fashion theatricality in front of the camera with traditional theatre which embodies archetypes. We noticed as well that printed fashion pictures aim to represent a cultural message belonging to our particular period and culture. But at the same time, they always transmit strong symbols and archetypes that are mythological. To interpret the symbols, we mainly used the work of Gilbert Durand. According to him, it is not society and culture that produce mythology, but mythology that creates ideology and artistic expressions. The work of Michel Maffesoli gives us as well an understanding of everyday life phenomena in post modernity
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Vale, Sam. "Collecting rooms : objects, identities and domestic spaces." Thesis, University of the Arts London, 2014. http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/7782/.
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This practice-based enquiry into United Kingdom based collecting rooms reveals five participants’ motivations, frustrations and satisfactions manifested in the creation of their spaces. Through the examination of theorists and commentators in the distinct but related fields of cultural theory, sociology and art, the thesis proposes that a collector’s past can be witnessed through memories generated by and within the space. The thesis also advances the idea that part of the experience of the space takes place in the present but simultaneously imagines the future. I have constructed spatial portraits using semi-structured interviews, photography and video, which explore the environment of each collector thus gaining insights into individual circumstances and personal situations. Narrative within this enquiry takes three intersecting forms: firstly the account of the construction of each collecting room, which divests objects of their historical origins, replacing these with personal associations or meanings devised by each collector. Secondly, each participants’ re-telling of their narratives and thirdly through the re-presentation of the collectors’ narratives to an audience. The latter brings my agency as an artist into focus. Uniting all three narrative forms, the creative practice intends to produce a metanarrative of each collecting room that further investigates the temporality of the space through the combined use of still photography, video and sound. Constructed from a symbiotic relationship between theory and practice, the research uses a methodology that combines Sensory Ethnography with Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis. This methodology explores the idiosyncrasies of each collector, engendering an extensive investigation of the individual collecting spaces. This detailed approach formed and eventually determined the number of participants, resulting in the production of a developmental case study and four original re-presentations that respond to ideas and debates on collecting, material culture and domestic space. These artworks that have been informed by combining existing research methods and constitute my contribution to new knowledge, disclosing ideas and observations which combine narrative and experience not necessarily discernable from theoretical arguments alone.
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Pillaudin, Marine. "L'enfance dans l'art : espace transitionnel, transfiguration et transfert dans le dessin, la photographie et la vidéo." Thesis, Paris 1, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA010511.
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S'appuyant sur une pratique personnelle du dessin, du collage et de la photographie, cette thèse de poïétique explore le thème de l'enfance dans l'art. Conçue comme un " work in progress", elle part d'une recherche sur l'intimité du dessin afin de construire un regard singulier sur : l'exposition de photographies et de vidéographies témoignant de traumas d'enfants. Elle vérifie l'hypothèse selon laquelle l'artiste puise dans sa propre enfance et dans celle des autres afin de conquérir des territoires de créations ignorés, là où prend corps l'altérité intime. La première partie analyse notamment les œuvres de Louise Bourgeois, Mike Kelley et Rosemarie Trockel, pour comprendre comment leurs processus créateurs réactivent l'espace transitionnel et ses phénomènes en nous immergeant dans des souvenirs d'enfances perdus. Dans une deuxième partie, c'est la transfiguration et l'altération radicale des visages d'enfants photographiés par Diane Arbus, Lewis Hine, Sebastiâo Salgado, ou filmés par Gillian Wearing qui sont interrogées. La réflexion se poursuit autour d'enjeux esthétiques et politiques liés à l'utilisation de ces images par des artistes tels que Mathieu Pemot et Catherine Poncin. Enfin, la troisième partie est centrée sur l'œuvre de Gerhard Richter traitant du transfert en tant que processus permettant d'actualiser, par la répétition, les événements passés qui le hantent. Le faire-œuvre qui en témoigne fait corps, devenant ainsi capable de figer ces blessures. Notre thèse, c'est que l'expérience d'un« absorbement » total dans ces œuvres nous incluant et nous excluant simultanément permet à l'artiste et au regardeur de reconnaître l'histoire des autres en luiRelying on personal experience in drawing, collage and photography, this thesis on poiesis explores the subject of childhood in Art. Designed as a work in progress, it stems from the intimacy of drawing and aims at constructing a singular outlook from the display of photography and films depicting childhood trauma. It verifies the hypothesis stating that the artist peers into his own childhood and that of others in order to conquer creative fields hitherto ignored, at the threshold of the intimate other. The first section scrutinizes the works of Louis Bourgeois, Mike Kelley and Rosemarie Trockel striving to understand how their creative processes reactivate transitional space -and its associated phenomena- by immersing us in distant recollections of childhood. The second section questions the transfiguration and the dramatic alteration of children's faces filmed and photographed by Diane Arbus, Lewis Hine, Sebastiâo Salgado and Gillian Wearing. The thesis then pursues on to evaluate the aesthetic and political stakes bound to the use of these images by artists, the likes of Mathieu Pemot and Catherine Poncin. Ultimately, the third part is centred on the work of Gerhard Richter dealing with transfer as a means of resurfacing -through reiteration- past events that haunt him. The resulting product thus making it possible to set these wounds in stone. Mythesis is that the experience of total absorption/immersion in these works -simultaneously including and excluding us- makes it possible for the artist and the observer to acknowled e the narratives of ethers within themselves
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Law, Amber. "Elsewhere." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3067.
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The photographer discusses the work in Elsewhere, her Master of Fine Arts exhibition held at East Tennessee State University in the Reece Museum, located in Johnson City, Tennessee. The exhibition is displayed from March 1 through March 31, 2016 and consists of 17 color photographs and 3 videos representing a body of work that visually communicates the photographer’s interest in transient lifestyles.
The influence and research regarding the concept is communicated by a focus on artists, literature and art historical knowledge that pertain to Law’s work. The artists included are Rineke Dijkstra, Jocelyn Lee, Lise Sarfati, Stephen Shore, Robert Frank, Rania Matar, Gregory Crewdson, and Walker Evans, as well as Edward Hopper, Lucian Freud, and Rachel Whiteread, and the poet Charles Baudelaire, among other writers referenced and other topics concerning aesthetics of travel and space.
Images of the photographer’s work and a catalogue of the exhibition is included.
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O'Neill, Elena. "Fotografia Performática." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2008. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=1167.
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Este trabalho se propõe pensar a fotografia performática. Embora esta noção não tenha sido ainda definida, é possível identificar em algumas obras de Eugène Atget, László Moholy-Nagy, Marcel Duchamp e Gordon Matta-Clark particularidades que me levaram a nomeá-las dessa forma. A tentativa de definir o conceito de fotografia performática assim como algumas reflexões sobre esses trabalhos a partir dessa definição, me permitiram abordar questões tais como o confronto da continuidade da percepção com a multiplicidade de uma visão não sintética, a impossibilidade da memória de completar mentalmente aquilo que não se apresenta como visível recorrendo a objetos semelhantes, o desconforto frente a situações que não conhecemos e a insatisfação de nossos hábitos visuais. Considerar a fotografia como ato, como atividade concreta, implica um posicionamento e uma intervenção no real, plausível de afetar diversos níveis da experiência humana. Uma ação impulsionada pela obra e intrínseca à formação de uma realidade estética, que questiona convicções, desmaterializa pontos de vista fixos, dissolve os a priori e aprofunda níveis de percepção. Mas ainda que nos coloque frente a alguns desafios, também nos permite, entre outras coisas, dotar as imagens fotográficas de plasticidade e assim tirar o aspecto fixo delasThis thesis is an approach towards thinking photography as performative. Although this concept not been defined yet, it is possible to identify certain aspects in some of the works of Eugène Atget, László Moholy-Nagy, Marcel Duchamp and Gordon Matta-Clark that lead to name it that way. Trying to outline the notion of performative photography as well as some considerations on the works of those artists based on that concept, allowed inquiring issues such as the confront between the continuity of perception and the multiplicity of a non-synthetic vision, the impossibility of memory to complete mentally that which does not present itself as visible unless having recurring to similar objects, the inadequacy we feel facing unknown situations and the non-satisfaction of our visual habits. Photography as an act, as a concrete activity, involves taking a position and interfering in reality, affecting several levels of human experience. An action driven by the work itself and intrinsic to an esthetic reality, that questions convictions, dissolves previous ideas and demands deeper levels of perception. Although it forces us to face some challenges, it also enables us to bestow plasticity to photographic images, thus removing their fixed condition
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Soukhakian, Fazilat. "The Private Revealed: A Search for a New Modernity Through the Lens of the Shah and Contemporary Photographers in Iran." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1522057558134736.