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Watson, David Rowan Scott. "Precious Little: Traces of Australian Place and Belonging." University of Sydney, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1098.
Full textThe Dissertation is a meditation on our relationship with this continent and its layered physical and psychological ‘landscapes’. It explores ways in which artists and writers have depicted our ‘thin’ but evolving presence here in the South, and references my own photographic work. The paper weaves together personal tales with fiction writing and cultural, settler and indigenous history. It identifies a uniquely Australian sense of 21st-century disquiet and argues for some modest aesthetic and social antidotes. It discusses in some detail the suppression of focus in photography, and suggests that the technique evokes not only memory, but a recognition of absence, which invites active participation (as the viewer attempts to ‘place’ and complete the picture). In seeking out special essences of place the paper considers the suburban poetics of painter Clarice Beckett, the rigorous focus-free oeuvre of photographer Uta Barth, and the hybrid vistas of artist/gardener Peter Hutchinson and painter Dale Frank. Interwoven are the insights of contemporary authors Gerald Murnane, W G Sebald and Paul Carter. A speculative chapter about the fluidity of landscape, the interconnectedness of land and sea, and Australia’s ‘deep’ geology fuses indigenous spirituality, oceanic imaginings of Australia, the sinuous bush-scapes of Patrick White, and the poetics of surfing. Full immersion is recommended.
Watson, David Rowan Scott. "Precious Little: Traces of Australian Place and Belonging." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1098.
Full textD'Onghia, Danielle M. "Windows to Reverie: A Photography Exhibition of Works by Danielle D’Onghia." Ohio Dominican University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oduhonors1368528376.
Full textLee, Stephanie Maria. ""The Will to Create" Exhibition Photographic Documentation of, and Narrative on the Body of Work in Sculpture, Painting and Mandala." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2008. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/LeeSM2008.pdf.
Full textAsquith, Wendy. "Haiti and art : curating the nation for international exhibitions." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2015. http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/2027099/.
Full textLevitsky, Maria. "Invisible Cities: Photographic Fictions of Architecture." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2012. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1457.
Full textBoyd, Ailsa Margaret Susan. "A home of their own : representations of women in interiors in the art, design and literature of the late nineteenth century." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2002. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/4407/.
Full textNegrão, Wilson Renato. "Rodrigo Braga: um estudo de arquivos de processos e montagem de exposição." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2017. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/20784.
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Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq
The objective of this research is to develop a study of the archives of semiotic-based processes in contemporary art and analyzing the creative process of Rodrigo Braga to investigate the ways of art through this and to understand the artist that transits be-tween different languages. The dissertation will be developed by surveying the evolution of Rodrigo Braga’s career and his emblematic works in the last decades. Covering his sketches, annotations and drawings, even documents in creation process, and by the end, following-up in exhibitions, where the artist will be observed closely, while finishing a work, before opening for public exposure. The result of these analyzes will lead the research meeting some procedural proce-dures that will help to understand the work of Rodrigo Braga. As a new artist, with a career that is still in progress and since his work is in the process of development, the research tends to generate discoveries that are still unpublished, including the artist himself. The studies will focus on his carried out works during the last decades and on the projects which are developed during the research. Through these documents of production process, the trajectories of Rodrigo Braga will be mapped into Brazilian and international artistic context and, thus, to present how much are his works relate to the performance, photography, video, installation and the evolution of his works based on creation process
O objetivo desta pesquisa é buscar desenvolver um estudo de arquivos de processos de base semiótica na arte contemporânea, analisando o processo criativo de Rodrigo Braga e através disto investigar os caminhos da arte para entender um artista que transita entre diferentes linguagens. A dissertação será desenvolvida, através de um levantamento da evolução da carreira de Rodrigo Braga e de trabalhos emblemáticos do artista nas últimas décadas. Serão estudados, na sequência, os esboços, anotações e desenhos, ou seja, documentos de seu processo de criação e, por fim, o acompanhamento em montagens de exposições, onde o artista será observado de perto, enquanto finaliza um trabalho, antes de abrir para exposição pública. O resultado dessas análises levará a pesquisa ao conhecimento de alguns procedimentos processuais que ajudará a entender a obra de Rodrigo Braga. Por se tratar de um artista novo, com a carreira ainda em evolução, onde a sua obra está em processo de desenvolvimento, a pesquisa tende a gerar descobertas que ainda são inéditas, inclusive ao artista. Os estudos serão elaborados focando em trabalhos realizados nas últimas décadas e também nos projetos desenvolvidos no decorrer da pesquisa. Através desses documentos de processo de produção serão mapeados os percursos de Rodrigo Braga no contexto artístico brasileiro e internacional e, assim, apresentar como se dá a relação de suas obras com a performance, fotografia, vídeo, instalação e a evolução de seus trabalhos pautada no processo de criação
Lenzini, Vanessa Sobrino. "Noções de moderno no Foto-Cine Clube Bandeirante : fotografia em São Paulo : (1948-1951)." [s.n.], 2008. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/282034.
Full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas
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Resumo: O presente estudo apresenta uma coletânea de artigos sobre fotografia, publicados entre 1948-1951 no Boletim do Foto-Cine Clube Bandeirante (FCCB), fundado em 1939, em São Paulo. Esses artigos trazem um debate sobre a fotografia enquanto representação artística, inspirada nos parâmetros do pictorialismo, que divulgavam um modo de atualização da fotografia enquanto arte. Acompanhando a coletânea, este estudo pretendeu matizar as idéias dos artigos, levantando as noções que embasaram a produção fotográfica do FCCB a se projetar como 'moderna' no circuito artístico e cultural da cidade de São Paulo. Procurou-se identificar as disputas e as intenções que uma produção possui ao se divulgar como parte 40 moderno. Em sua maioria, os artigos que compõe a coletânea são traduzidos de revistas oriundas de associações fotográficas internacionais, tomando-se referência para a discussão desta prática no Clube
Abstract: This study intends to present collected articles about photography published between 1948-1951 on the Foto-Cine Clube Bandeirante (FCCB) Bulletin, founded in 1939 in São Paulo. This articles bring up a debate about photography as al1 ,artistic representation inspired on pictorialistic parameters, which spread a way to ,update photography as an art formo With the collected articles, this study tried to balance the articles ideas, raising the notions that supported the concept of FCCB's photographic production as modern in the artistic and cultural circuit of São Paulo. This study intended to identify the disputes and intentions inhen(?t to ~ production which spreads itself as part of the moderno Most of the collected articles ~~e translated ITom international photographic associations magazines and became reference for photographic discussions at the Club and stated its cosmopolitan character
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Fernandes, Maria Amélia Bizarro Leitão. "A exposição de arte portuguesa em Londres 1955-1956 "a personalidade artística do país"." Master's thesis, Instituições portuguesas -- UL-Universidade de Lisboa -- -Faculdade de Letras, 2001. http://dited.bn.pt:80/29346.
Full textNur, Goni Marian. "Réparer (avec) l'archive ? Histoires de photographies somalies et de leurs circulations (1890-2016)." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017EHES0092/document.
Full textThis thesis traces the trajectories of some selected images, first taken of and then by Somali men and women from the Horn of Africa since the late 19th century to the present.Taken during ethnographic exhibitions of Somalis in Europe (of which this workproposes a detailed timeline since 1890) or commercial and political exploration missions to East Africa, these photographs have been both the medium and vector through which a certain knowledge has been produced and circulated concerning these people. This study undertakes, therefore, to examine the modes and contexts ofproduction, consumption and filiation of these "Somali images" in learned societies and popular newspapers in France.The study of the circulation and reappropriation of these historical images today on the Internet to serve contemporary purposes then leads to an analysis of how, in the digital era, a young, Internet-savvy generation from the Somali diaspora is now reclaiming its voice (raising questions about who can speak and how) through new website and blog projects, which attempt to establish (or mend?) an alternative Somali photographic archive. Thus, these projects both question the image of Somalia in the international media (an image associated, to a great extent, with famine, Islamic terrorism, piracy and "failed states") and offer new ways of preserving and transmitting other, often buried, memories of this country and its past before the civil war in the context of a certain "destruction of history".Finally, the third and last part of this study briefly revolves around photographicpractices observed in Djibouti during fieldwork from 2010 to 2012, here again with aparticular attention to the ways in which images are produced and conserved.This thesis raises the challenge of writing an on-going history that embraces itslacunae and voids – a feature that the researcher and the "subjects" of the research share – based on evolving material and digital fragments, in an attempt to highlight how their circulations profoundly affect their meanings and they ways in which we understand and make sense of them
Demarchi, Rita de Cassia. "Ver aquele que vê: um olhar poético sobre os visitantes em museus e exposições de arte." Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, 2015. http://tede.mackenzie.br/jspui/handle/tede/1925.
Full textTheoretical reflections and images/photographies approach in this research the complex domain which involves the visitors and art exhibition museums in Brazil and abroad. Based on research methodologies in Arts (Róldan & Marin-Viadel, 2012), single images or compound as photoshoots are considered a mode of knowledge and foster studies and reflections. Apart from the dialogue among images, the experience lived and the thought of scholars from different areas, the lightness of poetry and metaphors is also included in this work as well as reflections from contemporary art and Art history. Some issues concerning the contemporary scenario which can impede the meeting between the individual and art are discussed, such as excess, spect cle, consumerism, speed, tourism. These issues constitute what was named as penumbra and nourish the attitudes of the fugitive subject visitors. There must be both for the visitor and the researcher an openness for the aesthetical experience, land of the pilgrim, in order to unveil penumbra, ambivalence, maze and twilight. This openness inspires the research as a path of pilgrimage in order to search for the understanding of the complexity of phenomena and the poetic work of capturing the images shots at the exhibitions. This research of phenomenological nature adopts the theoretical framework of authors who reflect upon contemporaneity, such as Calabrese (1988), Bauman (2001); as well as authors who value sensibility and experience, such as Bachelard (1988), Dewey(2010), Merleau-Ponty(1975), Ferreira Santos (2005), Maffesoli (1998).
Reflexões teóricas e imagens/ fotografias abordam nesta pesquisa o complexo território que envolve os visitantes e os museus de exposições de arte, no Brasil e no exterior. Com base nas metodologias de pesquisa em arte (Róldan & Marin-Viadel, 2012), imagens individuais ou compostas como foto-ensaios são consideradas uma forma de conhecimento e impulsionam o estudo e a reflexão. Além do diálogo entre as imagens, a experiência vivida e o pensamento de estudiosos de diferentes áreas, inclui-se a leveza da poesia e das metáforas, além de reflexões derivadas da arte contemporânea e da história da arte. São discutidas algumas questões acerca da paisagem contemporânea que podem dificultar o encontro do sujeito com a arte, tais como o excesso, o espetáculo, o consumo, a velocidade, o turismo, que constituem o que foi nomeado de penumbra e alimentam as atitudes dos visitantes sujeitos fugidios. Tanto para o visitante, quanto para a pesquisadora, a fim de desvelar em meio à penumbra e as ambivalências, ao labirinto e ao crepúsculo, há que se ter a abertura para a experiência estética, terreno do peregrino. Abertura que inspira a pesquisa como uma trajetória de peregrinação em busca de compreensão da complexidade dos fenômenos e o trabalho poético de captura das imagens - flagrantes nas exposições. A pesquisa de cunho fenomenológico adota como referencial teórico autores que abordam reflexões sobre a contemporaneidade tais como: Calabrese (1988), Bauman (2001); e autores que valorizam a sensibilidade e a experiência, entre eles: Bachelard (1988), Dewey(2010), Merleau-Ponty(1975), Ferreira Santos (2005), Maffesoli (1998).
Thomaz, Vera Lucia Didonet. "Objetos de pesquisa em artes plásticas: documentos poéticos e relatórios imaginais." Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, 2015. http://repositorio.utfpr.edu.br/jspui/handle/1/1268.
Full textIf what existed and was photographed in the urban landscape has allowed the incorporation of what has become visible in the artifacts named Poetic documents, in the art collection and in the curatorial of exhibitions of Art Museum Ado Malagoli at Rio Grande do Sul (2011-2014), as The poor canon: the precariousness of archeology in fine arts; in contrast, this has led to the organization of Imaginal reports corresponding to the Collection Objects for research in Fine Arts, which exist, were photographed during the experiment, and for their historical bias, were incorporated in the collection of the Paranaense Museum as well as socialized in the Pergamum (2012-2014). This methodological principle of structuring research on the photographic gesture as a creative act in transitional spaces, of the museum actions taken by human beings in relation to surrounding objects, has assured intelligent degrees of interaction beyond the era of our city Curitiba, in the south of Brazil. In this long lasting work in progress, fragmentary, because it is open and communicable as its destination should be, the sharp goal is to show and tell something where entropy and ruin may be seen in the form of art in the observed process from the start. The notions of ‘transience’, found in the book Origin of the german baroque drama; of ‘progress’ and ‘updating’, in the Book of passages, in which are displayed, respectively, the roles of “rolls” D [Boredom, the eternal return] e N [Theory of knowledge, theory of progress], both writings by Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), are placed in dialectical movement with the ‘phenomenology’ and ‘communication’, by Vilém Flusser (1920-1991), in The Gestures, of photographing between differences of ‘searching for’ the concrete relationship between the ‘knowledgeable subject’, the ‘knowable object’ and adaptation between them, giving meaning to what ‘moves the observer’. For new ways of realizing, seeing, reflecting on the art, science, staring from doubt that emerges from the report, at present, the notion of ‘space’ as a result of the binding relationship action-object- subject with totality, comes from the work The nature of space: technique and time, reason and emotion, by Milton Santos (1926- 001). In the direction of the clipping with results, were included worldviews of artists such as Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) and Paul Klee (1879- 1940), Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) and Hannah Höch (1889-1978), of the German avant- garde and of the contemporary Americans Robert Smithson (1938-1973) and Gordon Matta- Clark (1943-1978), all able to remember what they thought to do.
Campaneli, Juliana Okuda. "A fotografia documental no museu de arte: dissonâncias e consonâncias." Universidade de São Paulo, 2012. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/93/93131/tde-04042013-092536/.
Full textThis dissertation aims to identify the main mechanisms involved in the inclusion of documentary photography in art museums during the 1970s, in São Paulo. It presents three case studies about thematic and essay format photo exhibitions, accomplished at this period: A família brasileira, held at the Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo, in 1971; Xingu/Terra, part of the 13th Bienal International São Paulo, in 1975, and Bom retiro e luz: um roteiro in the Pinacoteca do Estado de Sao Paulo, in 1976. The analysis about the exhibitions formats and processes involved in their realization reveals dissonances and consonances between the purposes and interests of their proponents and/or directors. The exhibitions are also investigated from the standpoint of political relations of the time, because the intention is to identify the social functions of photography acquired in the process of its institutionalization.
Corp, Mathieu. "Des expériences du temps dans la photographie latino-americaine contemporaine." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015USPCA093/document.
Full textDuring an exhibition, images displayed under the rubric of Latin-American photography vary according to the criteria retained by both curators and critics who legitimate their selection as well as their organisation. Curatorial biases can on their own determine choices with changing ethical and aesthetic implications and thus influence the shape taken on by exhibitions according to the thematic categories retained and the textual commentaries proposed for works whose Latin-American meanings, ever since the 1990s, are less affected by geographical considerations than by historical ones. In this thesis, it is our intention to show, first, how artists, using a plethora of plastic means, impart shape and form to experiences of time and, second, how images, through and according to the present moment, can establish various relationships with the past. Enlisting a semantic-pragmatic approach, we analyse the references established by images and texts in order to measure the contextual implications borne by their temporal relations; at the same time, the plastic modalities given to these temporalities allow us to interpret their meaning
Seniuta, Isabella. "Histoire du Eye Club : les valeurs de la photographie : Paris-New York (1960-1989)." Thesis, Paris 1, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020PA01H004.
Full textThis thesis questions the invention of a phrase : The Eye Club. Invented by the American historian Eugenia Parry, it has been designating a grouping active in the 1960s-1980s composed of : Pierre Apraxine, Hugues Autexier, François Braunschweig, Françoise Heilbrun, André Jammes, Gérard Lévy, Harry Lunn, Philippe Néagu, Alain Paviot, Richard Pare, Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe. These twelve characters lived between France and the United States and are connected and related by several cultural and temporal factors. This grouping is not, strictly speaking, a circle of sociability, it is rather a constellation or a nebula made of scattered cultural positions and diverse artistic projects. The main question that guided this survey is the following: in what way does the Eye Club and its individual actors contributed to the re-evaluation of the commercial, aesthetic and institutional value of photography between the early 1960s and the late 1990s among Paris and New York ? The chronology begins with André Jammes' involvement in the world of photography and ends in 1989, the year of Mapplethorpe's death. An inquiry of archives and key players has brought to light some well-known names, and others that remained in the shadow of history. This study aims at unveiling an interdependent network of actors, whose common interests in photography have made it possible to establish, in one generation, the photography market as we know it today. The first volume of the thesis offers, from a transatlantic perspective; an investigation and analysis of this based on photographs and correspondences. The second volume brings together twenty-four interviews conducted over my five years of doctoral research. First with the main protagonists of The Eye Club (Pierre Apraxine, Françoise Heilbrun, Richard Pare and Alain Paviot), then with the families of The Eye Club and finally with various personalities from the world of photography (Frish Brandt, Peter Bunnell, Denis Canguilhem, Sylviane De Decker, Viviane Esders, Patrick Faigenbaum, Philippe Garner, Maria Morris Hamburg, Susan Kismaric, Hans Peter Kraus Jr, Harold Jones, Baudoin Lebon, Eugenia Parry, Françoise Reynaud, Samia Saouma and Daniel Wolf). Together, the two volumes sketch a history of encounters between photography enthusiasts that has, up to now, been mainly articulated in oral form between France and the United States in the 1960s and 1980s
Challine, Éléonore. "Une étrange défaite : les projets de musées photographiques en France (1850-1945)." Thesis, Paris 1, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA010506.
Full textThis doctoral dissertation treats the history of the projects of museums of photography in France between 1850 and 1945. It aims to study and identify the various conceptions of the photographic museum - documentary, artistic, historical, technical, etc. – and their history. Between the late nineteenth century and the Second World War, two main ideas coexist in the design of photographic museum: what we shall call "museum of photographs," where photography is first and foremost the means of a visual encyclopedia or documentation, and on the other hand what we shall call a "museum of photography" dedicated to photography for its own sake, not as a means of recording reality, but as a medium. This conceptual ambiguity – Is photography the tool or the subject of the museum ? — is inherent in the relationship between the photograph and the museum, and is one of the principle lines of inquiry in this study. This work examines the causes of these institutional failures given the lack of implementation of these projects, some of which were tried but never continued. It hinges on three chronological periods that trace the major developments of these projects : the years between 1850-1880, where photography and the museum meet; the years of the 'imagined museums photography’ in 1880-1910 where we can see various museum forms develop; and finally, the Interwar period which can be considered as the moment where the true battle for the museum of photography emerged
Poupard, Laure. "L’expérience visuelle du New Deal : la propagande du gouvernement Roosevelt vue à travers ses expositions photographiques, 1935-1942." Thesis, Paris 4, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA040005.
Full textThis study focuses on photographic exhibitions produced by the US government between 1935 and 1942. These exhibitions aimed to publicize the Roosevelt administration’s economic stimulus program. The study is divided into three parts. The first part outlines the political and social issues of the New Deal while shedding light on the challenges faced by the propagandists in the Roosevelt administration, as well as the appeal and function of photography and exhibitions in its propaganda program. The second part considers the role played by world fairsin the development of design techniques employed by the administration. The final section addresses the government’s artistic exhibitions and their value as propaganda
Zerman, Ece. "Nouvelles pratiques de représentation de soi de la fin de l’Empire ottoman à la république de Turquie : écrits du for privé, photographies, intérieurs." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PSLEH166.
Full textThis thesis aims to study egodocuments in a period of political and social transformations, from the 1890s to the 1930s. Our study is based on case studies: A diary, almanacs, letters, photo albums, interior photographies as well as a series of published sources. From the end of the 19th century, new forms of self-representation developed in the Ottoman Empire, often related to emergent political discourses. The diffusion of photography and the new techniques of reproduction of texts and images contributed to the development of these new forms of self-representation. Our aim is to analyze written and visual tools of self-representation, that are most of the time intermingled, in an all-encompassing approach. The study of this documentation enables us to analyze, at the individual level, the ways in which the subjects of this study made experience of a world in transformation, constructed and preserved their memories, imagined their future. This also allows us to follow the transnational circulation of objects and practices, as well as their adaption and reappropriation by a “new social base”. Our sources are also the objects of our study. We are also interested in the materialities and uses of these documents as well as in what they tell us on the experiences, emotions, senses and the mise-en-scène or the performance of the self
Sears, Antoinette Louise. "Themes of the liminal, the absurd and the unstable in the sculpture of Eva Hesse." Thesis, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/24454.
Full textThe creative component of the research project explores, through the medium of sculpture, the notion of the liminal, with a particular focus on themes of the absurd and the unstable as characteristics of liminality. These themes may be useful for investigating and providing a valuable source for critical assessment, so as to allow for the opening of and extending of debates on reading and thinking about art regarded as ‘in-between’ the poles of a binary opposition. Broadly, it seeks to explore the historical trajectory of the 1960s artist Eva Hesse in relation to these themes, and how it resonates with my own sculpture-making and development. The aim of the written research is, therefore, through engaging with a close critical and theoretically informed reading of selected examples of Hesse’s work, to identify themes and approaches which may inform and advance the understanding of my own work produced in the context of this study. Connections will be drawn to the way in which these themes facilitate a favourable space in which the making of art flourishes. As far as viewers are concerned, such work may encourage the viewer to be an active participant in a dimension of human experience potentially not yet encountered, thereby liberating viewers’ fixed and rigid perceptual constructs. Entering into a discussion of the themes of liminality, the absurd and unstable, serves this aim.
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Manqele, Sanele Nonkululeko Babongile. "Retrospecting the collection: recontextualising fragments of history and memory through the Alf Kumalo Museum Archive." Thesis, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/24524.
Full textIn 2012, the Johannesburg-based artists’ collective, Center for Historical Reenactments (CHR), presented Fr(agile), a social sculpture and public intervention, following a threeday residency at the Alf Kumalo Museum in Diepkloof, Soweto. The Fr(agile) Residency intended to reimagine the archive by searching it for points of interest related to visual artmaking. This research dissertation aims to revisit Fr(agile) in order to explore new ways of engaging the photographic archive, and artist-led processes and methodologies within this archive. The archive was never completely sorted although Kumalo had, had intentions of properly cataloguing his archive and had begun the process of digitising his photographs at his museum. With the archive closed for legal reasons, this research will draw on memory and account, and this dissertation will be presented orally. I feel it is necessary to remember what the archive was like during the residency, but to also propose ways to activate the archive through contemporary visual arts practice. The research further proposes ways in which archives can occupy a space within contemporary visual arts, how they can potentially function when looked at as contemporary objects, and begin to question the ephemeral relationship between the photographic medium, archive and memory.
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Jacobson, Ruth Hedda. "“Picture perfect”: hand-coloured photographic portraiture in South Africa in the 20th century; a study of the collection of the Aqua Portrait Studio, Johannesburg." Thesis, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/24556.
Full textThis research was instigated by a collection of uncollected portraits (completed and incomplete), photographs, letters, papers, documents, passbooks, and other materials, left behind when an airbrush portraiture studio, The Aqua Portrait Studio, closed in about 1998 after fifty years of continuous business. The portraits were created by enlarging small original photos – sometimes from two separate sources – and then colouring them with an airbrush and other materials. Because of the nature of the airbrush technique, it was possible to change the original image completely: to clothe the sitters in completely imaginary attire, for example, and pose them together with someone they had possibly never been photographed with. This process gave rise to a genre in which people could re-imagine themselves, enact other personas. Because the fifty years of existence of this studio almost coincided with the years of apartheid (the studio was open from about 1950 to about 1998), it seemed that the collection of uncollected images and notes left behind could be a source of rich information about the people who were the studio's clients, the process of acquiring airbrushed portraits, and the social and historical context in which those involved lived. I start with three fundamental questions: Since this portraiture form grew so exponentially in popularity, especially during the apartheid years, what specific significance and meaning had it taken on for the communities who were buying the portraits? What need was it meeting? What can we learn about these lives from this collection? The research takes two forms. First, it closely interrogates the material objects in the collection; and second, it tracks the routes of clients and salesmen to what were some of the former homelands of the northern part of South Africa. Both these investigations attempt to understand the possible roles and contribution of these pictures to the construction and reconstruction of self-identity under apartheid.
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Hess, Linda. "The politics of visibility in a mined landscape: the image as interface." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/19938.
Full textLandscape representations in Western art have long stood as metaphors for power relations inscribed on the earth, encoding imperial aspirations, national identity, poetic and aesthetic experiences about humankind, nature and the environment. However, contemporary landscape imagery of large-scale industrial, and particularly mining sites, have come to signify, pre-dominantly through the medium of photography, meta-narratives that go beyond the political, economic, and environmental power relations historically endemic to landscape representation. Indeed, I suggest they constitute the formation of a sub-genre within the category of Landscape. Mining activities characterise extensive landscape interventions, often with catastrophic results both above and below ground. Perhaps a mined landscape more than any other, exemplifies not only the interwoven political and economic power relations inscribed upon the land, but also testifies to the underlying pathology of the land. Contemporary landscape studies cut across disciplines and go beyond the apprehension of surface, taking into account the geological as well social histories of land, and thus signal a shift in the aesthetic experience of land, both emotionally and intellectually, and consequently the way in which land is made visible. The visualisation of these land sites through imagery has precipitated an interface of aesthetic experience that simultaneously makes visible the politics symbolically encoded in the landscape itself, and the politics that impact viewership and reception. Nevertheless, accompanying the need to make visible those land sites hugely modified by mineral extraction, from both a historical and current perspective, is an unprecedented urgency that is weighted by a political anxiety over future implications of such land interventions. This anxiety is driven by the spectral nature of mined landscapes. Although monumental in scale, mined landscapes are often ‘not seen’, partly because they exist in restricted zones or are located underground, but often they are rendered invisible through a process of assimilation and naturalisation. A case in point has been the collective presence of mine dumps along Johannesburg’s southern periphery, and which, now in the process of being re-cycled, form the focus of my selected case study, an image by British photographer, Jason Larkin and titled Re-Mining Dump 20 (2012). By seeking to bring sites of mining activity into public consciousness, contemporary representations of mined landscapes also mediate current relations between humankind and the natural environment. As an agent of mediation, I propose that an image of a mined landscape functions as an interface. By situating Larkin’s image within a theoretical framework motivated by Jacques Rancière’s politics of aesthetics and Malcolm Andrews and W.J.T. Mitchell’s landscape theory, I proceed with my investigation in the form of a two-part interrogation: one that places emphasis on theory followed by a practical, creative response to Larkin’s image by way of repeat photography of Dump 20 and its surrounds. To demonstrate the concept of interface, I ‘excavate’ the aesthetic experience of Dump 20 as both sensory apprehension and through Rancière’s lens of emancipated viewership. There is an aesthetic quality of the sublime that appears to pervade visual representations of mined landscapes. Described as industrial sublime, toxic sublime or even apocalyptic sublime, the attention-holding quality these images exercise, through a strategy of aesthetic appeal, contribute to a politics of visibility by subversively implicating the viewer as a member of the human race. Global citizenship overrides national identity in these landscape representations, disrupting a sense of belonging with one of complicit participation in the formation of mined landscapes through reliance on mineral extraction for manufacturing consumer goods. Not only do representations of mined landscapes demand a rethink about aesthetic appreciation of landscape imagery and the endemic political connotations implicated in an understanding of landscape. They actively seek to penetrate surface visibility of land by taking into account the very pathology of land as an on going narrative of human and environmental interaction and life continually in process.
Voelker, Emily Leslie. "From both sides of the lens: anthropology, native experience & photographs of American Indians in French exhibitions, 1870-1890." Thesis, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/27331.
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Slessor-Cobb, Danna. "Archival Foote-steps: the Lewis B. Foote First World War photographs and approaches to digital exhibitions." 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/30726.
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Bennett, Melissa Helen. "Raimundo: reading David Goldbatt's on the mines." Thesis, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/24481.
Full textThis dissertation uses David Goldblatt’s seminal photobook, On the Mines (1973, revised 2012) to mediate a biographical conversation with Raymond Zavala, a migrant mineworker who left Mozambique in 1962 to live and work in Johannesburg. On the Mines was used as a vehicle to examine intimate details of one man’s life in the mines, focusing particularly on a mine in Roodepoort known as Durban Deep, where Raymond worked for 38 years. During my visits with Raymond, On the Mines was kept in hand as he and I walked through what once was a prosperous mining town. We would discuss his day-to-day life as a migrant, mineworker, husband and father, and began layering and inserting our own stories and photographs over and into On the Mines in an attempt to portray a more personal account of one person’s life on the mines. Goldblatt’s photographic archive is crucial to this process in that it enabled me to initiate conversations with Raymond about his personal history, memory and identity. This research, encompassed in the visual biography presented here, was created in collaboration with Raymond. He guided me through this process by directing the narrative of his own story, recommending specific landscapes and people for me to meet and photograph. I have chosen to present this practice in the form of a photobook, so that its concept and content can be shared as a critical resolution of my visual and narrative engagement.
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Fitzpatrick, Peter Gerard Media Arts College of Fine Arts UNSW. "The Doulgas Summerland collection." 2007. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/44257.
Full textAnanmalay, Kiyara. "Ethnography and the personal: the field practices of writing and photography on the Natal leg of the ninth frobenius expedition." Thesis, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/23894.
Full textWithin this research report, I explore how the (re-)integration of writing and photography enhances an understanding of the role of the personal within documentary practices. I focus on a portion of the Frobenius Archive as my case study, specifically the documents produced during the five-week Natal leg of the ninth expedition in early 1929. The German Leo Frobenius (b.1873–d.1938) was a primarily self-taught Africanist ethnographer, who had an interdisciplinary practice that blurred the boundaries between anthropology, archaeology and history. He conducted a total of twelve expeditions within Africa between 1904 and 1935, and his objective on these expeditions was to record ways of life that he felt were vulnerable to changes due to modernity. The documents collected during the Natal leg consist of field notes, photographs, hand-drawn pictures and diary entries. The field notes comprise of a set of eleven rock art site descriptions that have been constructed by the three artists: Maria Weyersberg, Elisabeth Mannsfeld and Agnes Schulz. Weyersberg’s diary entries provide a more impressionistic set of notes, tracking the day-today unfolding of their journey (but with many gaps). The subject matter of the photographs ranges from the rock art sites and the landscapes these sites are a part of, to the people they encountered along the way. I engaging with the concept of writing, particularly through the example of Weyersberg’s personal diaries, and the ways in which these entries relate to the photographs, creating a space in between where the personal relationships would have played themselves out. Within this research report I demonstrate that writing and photography can be brought back together in order to restore something of the original encounter and that this (re-)integration offers an opportunity for a new dialogue and a new understanding to be achieved.
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Wepener, Daneille. "Conflicting conventions: space as a medium in the works of Gerhard Richter and Serge Nitegeka." Thesis, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/24581.
Full textThis dissertation aims to examine Gerhard Richter and Serge Nitegeka’s artistic practices, in order to understand and identify how artists can potentially use space as a medium and contextualise my own practice within this realm. I position the conventions and principles of space through reference to French theorists’ Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau and Michel Foucault. The thesis begins with a brief overview of the window as a painterly motif and spatially familiar everyday device in the introduction. In the first chapter, I explore the surface and reflection of the medium of glass, the colour gray, the monochrome, as well as the pictorial, in Gerhard Richter’s Eight Gray (2002). The second chapter examines the role of the frame or line in Serge Nitegeka’s Black Lines (2012), as an environment of experience that relies on painted diagrams and the illusion of perspectival space. The third chapter observes a shift in the manner in which Richter and Nitegeka experiment and extend their practices through an engagement with the mirror and the door, respectively, as ways of exploring the threshold. Finally, I discuss my own practice and reflect on the exhibition Through the Extent (2015), which was submitted as the practical component of this research.
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Boyle, Mark. "Do you like my pics? : exhibition and exegesis as self reflective study." Thesis, 2012. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/21477/.
Full textClemens, Charlotte. "Learning and teaching cultural connectedness from the secondary art room, or, Survival and success in a secondary art room." Thesis, 2014. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/25345/.
Full textWillemse, Emma Wilhelmina. "The phenomenon of displacement in contemporary society and its manifestation in contemporary visual art." Diss., 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/4343.
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