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Introduction: Adjusting the Depth of Field
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Ángeles Donoso Macaya
Published: 14 January 2020
... Chilean military coup Chilean cultural field Officialist media Libro Blanco Chile Ayer Hoy Depth of field in photography Rosalind Krauss Nelly Richard Documentary photography John Tagg Susan Sontag Ariella Azoulay Visual field Expanding field Photographic practice Photojournalism in Chile...
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Doing Blues Fieldwork
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David Evans
Published: 08 November 2022
...This chapter discusses methodological issues in fieldwork in areas such as Folklore, Ethnomusicology, Cultural Anthropology and Documentary Photography, with particular attention to fieldwork in blues music. It discusses issues such as the purpose and organization of the research, preparation...
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Sometimes the Field Came to Us
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Marina Bokelman and David Evans
Published: 08 November 2022
... University of California Los Angeles UCLA Welding Pete Robert Pete Williams Mississippi Fred McDowell Blues Documentary Photography Al Wilson MB : The field came to us in the form of visiting blues musicians, which meant we could interview and record in the peace, privacy, and comfort of our own home...
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Going Up the Country: Field Notes from 1966
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Marina Bokelman and David Evans
Published: 08 November 2022
... Louisiana Mississippi Fieldwork Documentary Photography DE : Before we traveled south together in 1966, I had already made a preliminary investigation of a circle of musicians from Tylertown, Mississippi, beginning with Babe Stovall. They were all part of a diaspora from Tylertown that had crossed...
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The “Unrepresentable”
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Margaret Iversen
Published: 27 February 2017
...This chapter is concerned with issues surrounding documentary photography of atrocities and art based on such images. It begins with a critical account of the controversy surrounding the 2001 exhibition in Paris of photographs of Nazi concentration and death camps. Some critics condemned...
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Jean Toche: Impressions from the Rogue Bush Imperial Presidency (2009)1 1
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Kristine Stiles
Published: 21 March 2016
...This chapter examines Jean Toche's 2009 exhibition Impressions from the Rogue Bush Imperial Presidency , seen as an indictment of the deceitful, empire-building Bush administration and how it operated with criminal villainy. Documentary photography bears witness to moments...
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Published: 09 April 2018
... Alexander Subjectivity Bowery the Bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems The Rosler Semiotics of the Kitchen Rosler Videos by Rosler Vital Statistics of a Citizen Simply Obtained Rosler Critical realism Realism Solomon Godeau Abigail documentary photography portraits Avedon, Richard Rosler...
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American Studies Road Trip
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Matthew Frye Jacobson
Published: 13 May 2019
... police violence Boston Afghanistan Al Qaeda Cuban Missile Crisis El Salvador Grenada Gulf War Haiti Iran Kosovo Nicaragua Panama Somalia Sudan Vietnam War World War II Great Recession immigration BP oil spill documentary documentary photography 92 The camera loves a good...
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Afterword
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Matthew Frye Jacobson
Published: 13 May 2019
... Bannon Steve Charlottesville Va Nixon Richard Obama Barack Spencer Richard Islamophobia Child Lydia Maria Lewis John Documentary photography history historiography 2016 election Trumpism Can the camera serve as an historian’s instrument? This is the question that drove my experimental...
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How Mr. Eastman Changed the Face of American Religion
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Rachel McBride Lindsey
Published: 30 October 2017
... Riis Jacob San Francisco Social photography Albums Beholding Material culture National Daguerreotype Gallery News photography Relic Visual politics Icon Vernacular photographs Visual culture Kodak The Brownie snapshot documentary photography vernacular photography study of religion...
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Documentary Photography and the Visual Politics of Race and Religion
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Rachel McBride Lindsey
Published: 07 March 2018
... Carlos Hiro Sui Hutterites Japanese Independent Congregation Church Mormonism San Lorenzo Holiness Church Born Free and Equal Photographs of the Loyal Japanese Americans at Manzanar Relocation Center Inyo Manzanar Relocation Center phonograph Yonemitsu Francis Koju documentary photography...
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Published: 06 February 2020
... Mailey William McSparran James Soldier 028 Soldier V Kennedy Liam Violence photo-journalism documentary photography Bloody Sunday Battle of the Bogside Scarman tribunal Widgery tribunal Constable Robert Simpson: During the period I was there I did not see any civilians throwing stones. Lord...
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The Insubordination of Photography: Documentary Practices under Chile's Dictatorship
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Ángeles Donoso Macaya
Published online: 17 September 2020
Published in print: 14 January 2020
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Photographing race and madness: annual reports of psychiatric hospitals in the US South in the early twentieth century
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Élodie Edwards-Grossi
Published: 28 February 2023
... Louisiana psychiatric institutions 1930s segregation moral therapy occupational therapy Jim Crow Black labour documentary photography From the 1860s onward, public psychiatric institutions were created in the US South to treat Black patients with mental disorders: some of the establishments had...
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Published: 01 February 2018
... disappearance Temeck Tamar objectification self care Documentary photography Self/subjectivity illness narcissism sexuality performance ABR: In their projects, Intra-Venus , The Picture of Health and The Final Project , Hannah Wilke and Jo Spence...
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Remembering Invisibility: Documentary Photography of the Nuclear Age (1998)1 1
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Kristine Stiles
Published: 21 March 2016
... “nucleography” for the unparalleled visual traces of the bomb's light, “nucleographic” for documentary photographs of the nuclear age, and “nucleocide” for that war that is its legacy. It also considers documentary photography as a branch of nucleography. atomic bombs Brixner Berlyn Hiroshima Japan...
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How to Look at the Photographs
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Marina Bokelman
Published: 08 November 2022
... Oxford English Dictionary Holmes Mrs Myrt Documentary Photography Flash Context Cropping Low-light photography My mother’s brother was a photographer. He had a darkroom in the tiny bathroom of his New York City apartment where he developed, cropped, enlarged, and printed his work. He photographed...
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On the Road Again: Field Notes from 1967
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Marina Bokelman and David Evans
Published: 08 November 2022
... Fieldwork Documentary Photography DE : On August 18, 1967, I received the MA degree in Folklore and Mythology from UCLA. My thesis was “The Blues of Tommy Johnson: A Study of a Tradition.” Rather than wait for the commencement ceremony, Marina and I took off for the South on August 13. The results...
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Spiti: some notes on the practice of documentary photography
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Patrick Sutherland
Published: 01 March 2016
... by the challenging and complex relationships he has developed with the local communities who live there. As Sutherland notes “The practice of documentary photography is rarely straightforward. It is seldom about mechanically recording the world” but is a process in which images emerge from...
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Sensational Remediations
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Igor Krstić
Published: 01 May 2016
... to demonstrate the (dis-)continuities between nineteenth and twenty-first century documentary photography of slums. How The Other Half Lives Riis 1890 New York anthropology reform movement remediation Riis J A slumming social documentary photography Beard R Dickens C Egan P Glasgow Liverpool London...