The Domestic Interior And The Self In Contemporary Photography

Author : Jane Simon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000954388

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The Domestic Interior and the Self in Contemporary Photography by Jane Simon Pdf

By carefully conceptualising the domestic in relation to the self and the photographic, this book offers a unique contribution to both photography theory and criticism, and life-narrative studies. Jane Simon brings together two critical practices into a new conversation, arguing that artists who harness domestic photography can advance a more expansive understanding of the autobiographical. Exploring the idea that self-representation need not equate to self-portraiture or involve the human form, artists from around the globe are examined, including Rinko Kawauchi, Catherine Opie, Dayanita Singh, Moyra Davey, and Elina Brotherus, who maintain a personal gaze at domestic detail. By treating the representation of interiors, domestic objects, and the very practice of photographic seeing and framing as autobiographical gestures, this book reframes the relationship between interiors and exteriors, public and private, and insists on the importance of domestic interiors to understandings of the self and photography. The book will be of interest to scholars working in photographic history and theory, art history, and visual studies.

Author : Julie Bonzon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000953251

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The Market Photo Workshop in South Africa and the 'Born Free' Generation by Julie Bonzon Pdf

This study presents the history of the Market Photo Workshop (MPW) in Johannesburg and works produced by its new generation of photography students. Founded in 1989 by internationally renowned documentary photographer David Goldblatt, the MPW has reflected upon South African political struggles and sociocultural changes since its creation. Its foundation parallels a moment in time when photography was considered a ‘truth telling’ genre and an essential source of documents deployed against the apartheid regime. This book reflects on the evolution of the MPW in the post-apartheid era and explores how its new generation of students engages the photographic tradition of this institution and the revolutionary times that accompanied its creation to question their present moment. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual studies, photography, African studies, cultural studies and post-colonial studies.

Author : Susan Bright
Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-05
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781580933001

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Auto Focus by Susan Bright Pdf

Auto Focus features a dazzling array of self-portraits by seventy-five of the world’s foremost contemporary photographers. Photography writer and curator Susan Bright provides a clear guide through this significant and dynamic genre, showing how issues of identity—whether national, sexual, racial, personal, or artistic—are key to understanding the work of many of today’s leading photographers. This lavishly illustrated, accessible survey is organized into five thematic chapters: diaristic and autobiographical images; pictures of the body; the use of masks and masquerade; the return to studio portraiture and the photographic album; and performance, both public and private. An informative illustrated introduction explains the history of the photographic self-portrait from the 1840s to the late twentieth century, providing an invaluable context for the recent surge in artists’ images of themselves. From intimate images of introspection and those that consciously challenge notions of ethnicity and sexuality to dramatic, stylized photographs of dreamlike scenarios, Auto Focus shows how one of the longest-established artistic genres continues to fascinate artists today.

Author : Penny Sparke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351573634

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"Biography, Identity and the Modern Interior " by Penny Sparke Pdf

Through a series of case studies from the mid-eighteenth century to the start of the twenty-first, this collection of essays considers the historical insights that ethno/auto/biographical investigations into the lives of individuals, groups and interiors can offer design and architectural historians. Established scholars and emerging researchers shed light on the methodological issues that arise from the use of these sources to explore the history of the interior as a site in which everyday life is experienced and performed, and the ways in which contemporary architects and interior designers draw on personal and collective histories in their practice. Historians and theorists working within a range of disciplinary contexts and historiographical traditions are turning to biography as means of exploring and accounting for social, cultural and material change - and this volume reflects that turn, representing the fields of architectural and design history, social history, literary history, creative writing and design practice. Topics include masters and servants in eighteenth-century English kitchens; the lost interiors of Oscar Wilde's 'House Beautiful'; Elsa Schiaparelli's Surrealist spaces; Jean Genet, outlaws, and the interiors of marginality; and architect Lina Bo Bardi's 'Glass House', S?Paulo, Brazil.

Author : Catharine R. Stimpson,Barbara Hershey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Photography
ISBN : UOM:39015015477279

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Reflections by Catharine R. Stimpson,Barbara Hershey Pdf

Author : Peter Galassi (Museumskurator)
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Domestic relations
ISBN : UCSD:31822016853467

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Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort by Peter Galassi (Museumskurator) Pdf

Author : Charlotte Cotton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Photography, Artistic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133021290

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The Photograph as Contemporary Art by Charlotte Cotton Pdf

"An essential guide."--Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Author : Sally Miller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-26
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781000181999

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Contemporary Photography and Theory by Sally Miller Pdf

Contemporary Photography and Theory offers an essential overview of some of the key critical debates in fine art photography today. Building on a foundational understanding of photography, it offers an in-depth discussion of five topic areas: identity, landscape and place, the politics of representation, psychoanalysis and the event. Written in an accessible style, it introduces the critical literature relevant to photography that has emerged over recent decades. Moving beyond seminal works by writers such as Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, and Susan Sontag, it enables readers to explore an extended canon of theorists including Jacques Lacan, Judith Butler and Giorgio Agamben. The book is illustrated throughout and analyses a range of works by established and emergent artists in order to show how these theoretical concepts are central to understanding contemporary photography. These 15 short essays encourage readers to apply critical thinking to both their own work and that of others. They are the perfect starting point for essays as well being of suitable length for assigned readings, making this the ideal resource for learning about contemporary photography and theory.

Author : Lynn Churchill,Dianne Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317086291

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Occupation: ruin, repudiation, revolution by Lynn Churchill,Dianne Smith Pdf

Bringing together an international range of contributors from the fields of practice, theory and history, this book takes a fresh look at occupation. It argues that occupation is a prospect that begins with ruin--a residue from the past, an implied or even a resounding presence of something previous that holds the potential for transformation. This prospect invites us to repudiate, re-imagine and re-define lived space, thereby asserting occupation as an act of revolution. Authors drawn from the fields of architecture, urbanism, interior architecture, dance dramaturgy, art history, design and visual arts, cultural studies and media studies provide a unique, holistic view of occupation, examining topics such as: the authority of architecture; architecture as an act of revolution; women in hypersexual space; occupation as a serialized act of ruin; and the definition of space as repudiation. They discuss how acts that re-invent territory and/or shift boundaries--psychological, social and physical--affect identity and demonstrate possession. This theme of occupation is significant and topical at a time of radical flux, generated by the proliferation of hypermedia, and also by the dramatically shifting environmental, political and economic context of this era. The book concludes by asserting that it is through occupation (private and public: real, virtual, remembered, re-invented) that we appear or disappear as the individual or collective self, because the spaces we construct assert particular agendas which we may either contest or live in accord with.

Author : Raphael Samuel
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781844679355

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Theatres of Memory by Raphael Samuel Pdf

When Theatres of Memory was first published in 1994, it transformed the debate about what is to be considered history and questioned the role of “heritage” that lies at the heart of every Western nation’s obsession with the past. Today, in the age of Downton Abbey and Mad Men, we are once again conjuring historical fictions to make sense of our everyday lives. In this remarkable book, Samuel looks at the many different ways we use the “unofficial knowledge” of the past. Considering such varied areas as the fashion for “retrofitting,” the rise of family history, the joys of collecting old photographs, the allure of reenactment societies and televised adaptations of Dickens, Samuel transforms our understanding of the uses of history. He shows us that history is a living practice, something constantly being reassessed in the world around us.

Author : Susan Bright
Publisher : Art / Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1908970103

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Home Truths by Susan Bright Pdf

Published to coincide with an exhibition held at the Photographers' Gallery and Foundling Museum in London and touring to Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Photography, this beautiful and striking book examines contemporary interpretations of one of the most enduring subjects in the history of picture-making: the image of the mother. Focusing on the work of twelve international photographic artists, the publication challenges the stereotypical or sentimental views of motherhood handed down by traditional depictions, and explores how photography can be used to address changing conditions of power, gender, domesticity, the maternal body, and female identity. The work featured here is highly personal, often documentary in approach and with the individual subject at its centre, reflecting photography itself in the twenty-first century. The featured artists offer very different views of contemporary motherhood, from the devoted to the dysfunctional, representing the myriad ways that becoming - or even trying to become - a mother can radically alter a woman's sense of self and how others perceive her. The book's essays, illustrated with dozens of comparative images from antiquity to the present day, present the historical and contemporary context of the mother figure. Curator of the exhibitions and volume editor Susan Bright traces the history of photographs of motherhood from the nineteenth century to our 'postfeminist' age. Simon Watney weaves a fascinating narrative of the Madonna figure through the centuries. Nick Johnstone looks at the presentation of the mother from the perspective of the father, and considers how images of fatherhood compare, while Stephanie Chapman lays out the moving history of London's Foundling Museum through photographs and repositions the mother in a story of loss where she is strangely absent. Presenting contemporary thinking on motherhood through an exploration of its changing representation in photography, Home Truths provides a fresh and unique insight into one of the most universal and well documented of experiences.

Author : Claire Raymond
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Identity (Philosophical concept).
ISBN : 0367765756

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The Selfie, Temporality, and Contemporary Photography by Claire Raymond Pdf

Dreaming the Self: Selfie Practice, Temporality, and Artificial Intelligence -- The Capitalist Affect -- Embodied Self: Temporality, Ontology, Mortality -- Numbering Identity: The Algorithmic Self -- Archive, Memory, Identity -- Selfie-as-Mask -- Celebrity Self-Fashioning -- Self-Portrait Performance.

Author : Centre for Contemporary Photography (Fitzroy, Vic.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Photographers
ISBN : 0987293389

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True Self by Centre for Contemporary Photography (Fitzroy, Vic.) Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9078487119

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The Unwanted Self by Anonim Pdf

Author : Moritz Neumüller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-21
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781317212362

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The Routledge Companion to Photography and Visual Culture by Moritz Neumüller Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Photography and Visual Culture is a seminal reference source for the ever-changing field of photography. Comprising an impressive range of essays and interviews by experts and scholars from across the globe, this book examines the medium’s history, its central issues and emerging trends, and its much-discussed future. The collected essays and interviews explore the current debates surrounding the photograph as object, art, document, propaganda, truth, selling tool, and universal language; the perception of photography archives as burdens, rather than treasures; the continual technological development reshaping the field; photography as a tool of representation and control, and more. One of the most comprehensive volumes of its kind, this companion is essential reading for photographers and historians alike.