Reconsidering Documentary Photography

2020 ◽  
pp. 14-71
Author(s):  
Michelle Bogre
Keyword(s):  
Documentary Photography

scholarly journals Subjective documentary photography in ‘Normalised’ Czechoslovakia (1968-89). Decoding Vladimír Birgus’ work

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (19) ◽  
pp. 101
Author(s):  
Paula Gortázar
Keyword(s):  
Documentary Photography

El objetivo de este artículo es estudiar la aplicación de una ‘mirada subjetiva’ en el documentalismo fotográfico desarrollado en Checoslovaquia durante el periodo de Normalización (1968-1989). La intención del texto es comprender cómo debemos entender la noción de lo ‘subjetivo’ en relacción a la fotografía documental Checoslovaca y su relevancia artística durante las últimas dos décadas de régimen comunista. A través del análisis de la obra de Vladimír Birgus, el artículo estudia cómo los principios de subjetividad fotográfica permitieron a determinados fotógrafos Checoslovacos expresar su crítica hacia el régimen comunista mediante el uso de una serie de mensajes codificados en sus fotografías.

scholarly journals ‘Leaving Dublin’: Photographic portrayals of post-Celtic Tiger emigration – a sociological analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 635-653
Author(s):  
Breda Gray
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Documentary Photography ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
Celtic Tiger ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Immigration And Emigration ◽  
Multiple Media ◽  
Complex Circuits ◽  
Media Channels ◽  
The City

This article analyses David Monahan’s photographic portrait series of over 120 people before emigrating from post-Celtic Tiger Ireland, entitled ‘Leaving Dublin’. As a digital series that circulates across multiple media channels, it moves beyond the tradition of documentary photography into a more hybrid aesthetic, political and media environment. As well as inserting these images in multiple circulatory platforms and replicable formats, the series disrupts the dominant visual culture of emigration by expressively recasting how it is seen and thought. This article argues that the highly stylised and unsentimental aesthetic adopted by Monahan pushes the images beyond the established visual culture of sentimental departure, visualising instead transnational and multicultural histories and politics through complex circuits of migration. As such, it highlights what Mieke Bal sees as the instability of migratory culture in the city landscape. At the same time, however, it re-enacts particular social distinctions and divisions. Just as new trajectories, relationalites and stories ‘appear’ as constitutive of Dublin and contemporary mobility, so also other trajectories, relationalities and mobilities are disappeared in ways that keep an exclusionary topography and politics of mobility in place. This is evident in the insistent and persistent separation between Irish asylum-seeking/immigration and emigration-focused digital photographic projects. So, although digitisation facilitates reflexive ways of communicating contemporary migration, and Monahan’s project succeeds in forging subtle connections, it also re-enacts structured disconnection and forgetting.

scholarly journals Perceptions of Needs, Assets, and Priorities Among Black Men Who Have Sex With Men With HIV: Community-Driven Actions and Impacts of a Participatory Photovoice Process

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 155798831880490 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina J. Sun ◽  
Jennifer L. Nall ◽  
Scott D. Rhodes
Keyword(s):  
Black Men ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Black Msm ◽  
Documentary Photography ◽  
Medical Systems ◽  
The Public ◽  
Future Aspirations ◽  
Community Forum ◽  
Sex With Men

Black men who have sex with men (MSM) with HIV experience significant health inequities and poorer health outcomes compared with other persons with HIV. The primary aims of this study were to describe the needs, assets, and priorities of Black MSM with HIV who live in the Southern United States and identify actions to improve their health using photovoice. Photovoice, a participatory, collaborative research methodology that combines documentary photography with group discussion, was conducted with six Black MSM with HIV. From the photographs and discussions, primary themes of discrimination and rejection, lack of mental health services, coping strategies to reduce stress, sources of acceptance and support, and future aspirations emerged. After the photographs were taken and discussed, the participants hosted a photo exhibition and community forum for the public. Here, 37 community attendees and influential advocates collaborated with the participants to identify 12 actions to address the men’s identified needs, assets, and priorities. These included making structural changes in the legal and medical systems, encouraging dialogue to eliminate multiple forms of stigma and racism, and advocating for comprehensive care for persons with HIV. As a secondary aim, the impacts of photovoice were assessed. Participants reported enjoying photovoice and found it meaningful. Results suggest that in addition to cultivating rich community-based knowledge, photovoice may result in positive changes for Black MSM with HIV.

At Berkeley

2018 ◽  
pp. 192-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Mark Cohen ◽  
Leigh Raiford
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Political Mobilization ◽  
Fund Raising ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Documentary Photography ◽  
Public Higher Education ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Student Activists ◽  
The University

In “At Berkeley: Documenting the University in an Age of Austerity,” Michael Mark Cohen and Leigh Raiford address documentary’s evolving capacity for political mobilization by focusing on the role of documentary photography and film in the struggle around austerity at the University of California, Berkeley. While the university administration used documentary’s graphic appeal to enlist alumni in a fund-raising campaign that effectively naturalized the privatization of public higher education, students took up documentary forms to challenge the logic of neoliberalism. Working with Cohen and Raiford, who teach at UC Berkeley, student activists produced their own counterdocuments, repurposing documentary images that the university uses to sell education in an era of skyrocketing tuition fees, and rendering themselves as active participants in the struggle to reshape the university and the broader society.

Documentary Photography

Illuminations ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 170-173
Author(s):  
Elizabeth McCausland
Keyword(s):  
Documentary Photography
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