The Power of Abstraction: The Photography of Sonya Noskowiak
By Alanna O’Riley. Sonya Noskowiak (1900-1975) was an American photographer and member of Group f.64, a collective of Californian photographers during the 1930s. Named after the smallest aperture on a camera, Group f.64 was united by a contempt for the dominant pictorialist aesthetic, instead embracing the values of ‘straight photography.’ …
Pushpamala: A Performative Deconstruction of the Typography of Indigenous Women Through a Postcolonial Lens
By Katja Neef.
Photography has always been a method to record important moments in time while providing accuracy by capturing the subject, its setting, and the surrounding environment. Yet, seen through a postcolonial lens, photography specifically employed by ethnographers and anthropologists in the 1900s was instrumentalised to create the subordinate 'other' by fixating on differences by removing context…
The Theatricality Of The Everyday: A Question Of Absorption In Contemporary Photography
By Annie Curtis
In the interest of portraying the utmost naturalism, immersion has long been employed by artists to suggest the unique quality of ‘being-in-the-world’ that defines our very existence. Indeed Heidegger explains his conception of ‘dasein,’ or human beings, as inseparable from the sphere in which they live, permanently ‘in pursuit’ of meaning rather than simply ‘being present’ as mere ‘entities’ or objects…
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