Other People’s Stories: Bringing Public-Generated Photography into the Contemporary Art Museum [PDF]
, 2013 Constituting the ‘defining other’ of art photography, amateur photographic practices have long been neglected or specifically excluded from official histories of photography.
Moschovi, Alexandra, Galani, Areti
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Morocco in Colonial Photography [PDF]
, 2021 This article represents an attempt to approach the notion of colonial discourse and photography more closely with the exigencies that put Morocco under the zoom of the colonial lens.
Laachiri, Soufiane +1 more
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Class, consumption and currency : commercial photography in mid-Victorian Scotland [PDF]
, 2013 Electronic version excludes material for which permission has not been granted by the rights holderThis thesis examines a thirty year span in the history of Scottish photography, focusing on the rise of the commercial studio from 1851 to assess how ...
Laurence-Allen, Antonia
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Unfolding the act of photography [PDF]
, 2014 This thesis discusses the multifaceted status of the photograph, as a contribution to understanding the mechanics of the production of meaning within the photograph.
Kantas, Vasileios
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La photographie comme absence : histoires en creux (Afrique, fin xixe-début xxe siècle)
Sources, 2023 Photographic material can sometimes pose an overwhelming and distorting presence, especially when it comes to the writing of history. Some of the first visual recordings of African social worlds via photography would long serve as a model for images of ...
Daniel Foliard
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Tātara e maru ana: Renewing Ancestral Connections with the Sacred Rain Cape of Waiapu Kōkā Hūhua
Pacific Arts, 2023 This photo essay is based on the artist’s doctoral research and exhibition Tātara e Maru Ana—The Sacred Rain Cape of Waiapu . The PhD thesis interrogated the history of photography in Ngāti Porou to show how lens-based image-making can enact Mātauranga ...
Natalie Robertson
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Culture & History Digital Journal, 2023 Spanish Guinea, as the largest Spanish colonial territory in sub-Saharan Africa, was the object of scientific attention by several official Spanish institutions such as the Institute of African Studies (IDEA) and the Ethnological and Colonial Museum of ...
Luis Calvo Calvo
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Photography and diaspora: Interpretations and explorations in Indian migration studies
Journal of Indentureship and its Legacies, 2023 This essay utilizes the rich photographic collections of the Herrnhut Archive, Rijksmuseum and Tropenmuseum to explore alternative ways of understanding the colonial Indian labour diaspora, to infuse new meanings into old pictures and to draw upon the ...
Sarojini Lewis
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Reputations made and lost: the writing of histories of early twentieth-century British photography and the case of Walter Benington [PDF]
Walter Benington (1872-1936) was a major British photographer, a member of the Linked Ring and a colleague of international figures such as F H Evans, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and Alvin Langdon Coburn.
Crow, Robert
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‘Permanent Displays’ as Unsettling Layers of Epistemologies, Politics and Aesthetics
Museum & Society, 2019 This article argues that museum exhibitions often are formed through multiple layers. It presents readings of two contrasting exhibition narratives, the ethnographic display at the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo and the national history exhibition at
Sigrid Lien, Hilde Wallem Nielssen
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