Archive for the ‘Politics & Photography’ Category
Schwartz, Joan M; Ryan, James R. ‘Photography and the Geographical Imagination’ Picturing Place: Photography and the Geographical Imagination ed. by Joan M. Schwartz and James R. Ryan (London: I.B.Taurus, 2003) 1-18 p.1 More than one hundred and fifty years later – despite ongoing and unresolved debates over the status of photography as a fine art and over [...]
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Warning
Flusser, Vilém. ‘Warning’ Into the Universe of Technical Images trans. by Nancy Ann Roth (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011) 3-4 p.3 Utopia means groundlessness, the absence of a point of reference. We face the immediate future directly, unequivocally, except inasmuch as we cling to those structures generated by utopia itself. That is what has [...]
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Danger
Cadava, Eduardo. ‘Danger’ Words of Light: Theses on the Photography of History (Chichester: Princeton University Press, 1997) 47-59 p.47 It is because the question of reproducibility extends far beyond the realm of art that it raises the possibility of the democratization of death. Not only does technical reproducibility change our relation to death, but the incursion of the [...]
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Politics
Cadava, Eduardo. ‘Politics’ Words of Light: Theses on the Photography of History (Chichester: Princeton University Press, 1997) 44-47 p.44 What is at stake in the question of technological reproducibility – in the question of photography, for example – is not whether photography is art, but in what way all art is photography. For Benjamin, as soon as [...]
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Photographic Archives
Bezencenet, Stevie., Bresheeth, Haim. ‘Photographic Archives’ Photographic Practices: Towards a different image ed. by Stevie Bezencenet and Philip Corrigan (London: Comedia, 1986) 61-64 p.61 The problem is that this multiplicity of imagery [found in private and public archives] is often not accorded any significance and consequently not ‘mapped’. Such a process involves an attitude, before [...]
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History
Cadava, Eduardo. ‘History’ Words of Light: Theses on the Photography of History (Chichester: Princeton University Press, 1997) pp.1-5 p.1 [In 'Theses on the concept of History'] Benjamin’s consideration of the historical and philosophical questions suggested by the rise and fall of photography can therefore be understood as an effort to measure the extent to which the [...]
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Smith, Shawn Michelle. ‘Race and Reproduction in Camera Lucida’ Photography:Theoretical Snapshots ed. by Long, J.J., Nobel, Andrea, and Welch, Edward (Oxon: Routledge, 2009) pp.98-111 p.98 A close reading of [Camera Lucida] discovers that many of Barthes’s most important and influential insights are informed by complicated, and sometimes vexing, personal-political inclinations. Indeed, Barthes’s very conception of photography is [...]
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{rowan lear} findings- “Lots of barbed wire entanglements” : tiny portrait of young woman
- Children playing cricket
- Squinting boy holding dog with lead
- Woman standing in kitchen, hiding behind wooden boardImage © Craigmillar Archives Trust
- Two girls and two boys, standing beside field of cowsImage © Craigmillar Archives Trust
- Woman in dress standing by building at end of driveway
- Two prints of portrait of boy with shirt and jacket
- Young girl with hat and doll sitting on chair in garden
- Landscape with tree nursery/orchard
- Man playing on ship deck under lifeboat with woman reading
- Two (twin?) boys in matching clothes standing in field
- Young man with hat and pipe standing against corrugated metal wall
- Island from sea
- Man with hat on donkey
- People standing in archway
- Man, woman and two boys paddling in water
- Two men on side street with steps
- Two women standing with twin boys and carrying girl
- Man and three women sitting on grass under trees
- Village, trees and valley
- {writings}
- Shilpa Gupta: Someone Else 22 April 2012
- TANT 4 March 2012
- Let us tell the stories of the dead 21 January 2012
- This is a photograph 10 October 2011
- My brother’s photograph 22 April 2010
- Not my mother’s album 2 February 2010
