An innovative study of contemporary photography in France
This compelling publication traces the broad arc of photography’s development in France from the 1970s to the present day. A decade-by-decade ...account reveals unexpected points of convergence between practices that are not usually considered in a comparative perspective. These include photographic practices in contemporary art, documentary, photojournalism, and fashion. Author Olga Smith sets these practices in dialogue with French philosophy – the writings of Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, and Jacques Rancière – to produce an innovative study of the intersections between the photographic image, text, practice, and theory. This analysis is guided by an understanding of photography as deeply engaged with historical, cultural, and intellectual events that defined French national experience in the contemporary period. Landscape provides a particular focus to study issues of key significance, including national identification, colonial past, legacies of modernization and environmental breakdown.
This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).
Few studies have investigated parent's experiences with racism in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Our objective was to explore how parents perceive their interactions with NICU staff and ...if/how racism in the NICU was experienced. Parents of infants receiving care in an urban NICU completed fixed choice surveys regarding their experiences and demographics, with 6 open-ended questions to elaborate on their fixed-choice responses. Using a constant comparative method informed by Constructivist Grounded Theory, we identified 3 main themes from the comments provided by 97 respondents: Care and harm coexisting, racism often manifesting as neglectful care, and the power differential is most impactful during times of parent advocacy. Parents spoke positively regarding their experiences and also reported disparate treatment attributed to their racial/ethnic identity. Racism was experienced by inappropriate comments and apathy toward parent requests, occurring during intimate interactions between staff and parents. Descriptions of parental advocacy efforts highlighted the lack of power they held in relation to the NICU staff. We recommend strengthening the focus on equity and mitigating power imbalances in the NICU.Few studies have investigated parent's experiences with racism in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Our objective was to explore how parents perceive their interactions with NICU staff and if/how racism in the NICU was experienced. Parents of infants receiving care in an urban NICU completed fixed choice surveys regarding their experiences and demographics, with 6 open-ended questions to elaborate on their fixed-choice responses. Using a constant comparative method informed by Constructivist Grounded Theory, we identified 3 main themes from the comments provided by 97 respondents: Care and harm coexisting, racism often manifesting as neglectful care, and the power differential is most impactful during times of parent advocacy. Parents spoke positively regarding their experiences and also reported disparate treatment attributed to their racial/ethnic identity. Racism was experienced by inappropriate comments and apathy toward parent requests, occurring during intimate interactions between staff and parents. Descriptions of parental advocacy efforts highlighted the lack of power they held in relation to the NICU staff. We recommend strengthening the focus on equity and mitigating power imbalances in the NICU.
This interview with British photographer John Davies traces the development of the artist's career from the 1970s to the present day, with a particular focus on his engagement with the subject of ...landscape representation in the urban context. The interview highlights a number of key aspects of Davies' practice, including the use of the high vantage point and geographical maps, and discusses the social and cultural implications of designating landscape as a product of historical process.
Photography situates landscape in a physical context, as well as in relation to us. “When we ‘see’ a landscape, we situate ourselves in it”, observed John Berger. Framing, focus and depth of field ...identify clearly our position as the viewing subject, and it was this especially proximate relationship to the fundamental acts of looking, perceiving and understanding that has made photography invaluable for many artists engaging with the subject of landscape. This special issue gathers contributions from a growing body of international scholarship dedicated to the study of photographic representations of landscape in the contemporary period (since the 1980s). Approaching this subject from a range of disciplinary perspectives that include art history, aesthetics and geography, the authors address the relationship between photography and landscape. The term landscape signifies here the practice of visual representation of space, whereas photography relates to a range of practices in contemporary art that engage, in a substantive manner, with photography as a medium and a technology.. To examine the outcomes of the convergence of photography and landscape is the main objective of this volume.
This interview with British photographer John Davies traces the development of the artist's career from the 1970s to the present day, with a particular focus on his engagement with the subject of ...landscape representation in the urban context. The interview highlights a number of key aspects of Davies' practice, including the use of the high vantage point and geographical maps, and discusses the social and cultural implications of designating landscape as a product of historical process.
MAKING VISIBLE Smith, Olga
Photographies,
20/9/2/, Letnik:
11, Številka:
2-3
Journal Article
Recenzirano
This article analyses recent photographic practices that make visible underlying realities faced by Western societies today as they struggle to reconcile contradictions between their policies on ...race, immigration and ethnicity and the quest for an integrated national identity. The main case studies are drawn from the works of Mohamed Bourouissa and Tobias Zielony. The article demonstrates how their photographic projects confront the logic of social and cultural marginalisation of the immigrant communities, which often overlaps with their spatial consignment to urban peripheries. By combining reality and fiction, symbolism and documentation, these projects offer alternatives to the modes of representation available in photojournalism, as well as re-connecting with the genre of street photography.
This essay considers Christian Boltanski’s engagement with photography in the 1970s, at a time when its circulation was still largely confined to the realms of amateur practice. However, this was ...also the period that prepared the eventual acceptance of photography as a form of art, thereby raising questions regarding the function and the status of the artist-photographer. These issues were explored by Boltanski in his series Images modèles (1973-1975) and his playful and sometimes knowingly false autobiographic reconstructions. His engagement with the polemic surrounding the institution of authorship, as articulated by Roland Barthes in ‘The Death of the Author’ (1968), is interpreted in the context of intellectual, historical and artistic events in France in the 1960s–1970s. In so doing an evaluation is offered of Boltanski’s contribution to the history of photography, while challenging a number of dominant critical approaches to this artist’s work.
MAKING VISIBLE Smith, Olga
Photographies,
06/2018, Letnik:
11, Številka:
2-3
Journal Article
Recenzirano
This article analyses recent photographic practices that make visible underlying realities faced by Western societies today as they struggle to reconcile contradictions between their policies on ...race, immigration and ethnicity and the quest for an integrated national identity. The main case studies are drawn from the works of Mohamed Bourouissa and Tobias Zielony. The article demonstrates how their photographic projects confront the logic of social and cultural marginalisation of the immigrant communities, which often overlaps with their spatial consignment to urban peripheries. By combining reality and fiction, symbolism and documentation, these projects offer alternatives to the modes of representation available in photojournalism, as well as re-connecting with the genre of street photography.
Child Studies Multiple Sparrman, Anna; Hrechaniuk, Yelyzaveta; Anatoli Smith, Olga ...
Culture unbound,
2023, Letnik:
15, Številka:
1
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Recenzirano
Odprti dostop
This text is an exploration of collaborative thinking and writing through theories, methods, and experiences on the topic of the child, children, and childhood. It is a collaborative written text ...(with 32 authors) that sprang out of the experimental workshop Child Studies Multiple. The workshop and this text are about daring to stay with mess, “un-closure” , and uncertainty in order to investigate the (e)motions and complexities of being either a child or a researcher. The theoretical and methodological processes presented here offer an opportunity to shake the ground on which individual researchers stand by raising questions about scientific inspiration, theoretical and methodological productivity, and thinking through focusing on process, play, and collaboration. The effect of this is a questioning of the singular academic ‘I’ by exploring and showing what a plural ‘I’ can look like. It is about what the multiplicity of voice can offer research in a highly individualistic time. The article allows the reader to follow and watch the unconventional trial-and-error path of the ongoing-ness of exploring theories and methods together as a research community via methods of drama, palimpsest, and fictionary.
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