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Photography Consists of Collaboration: Susan Meiselas, Wendy Ewald, and Ariella Azoulay

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Ariella Azoulay
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 187–201.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3454496
Published: 01 May 2016
.... The repertoire of photographic works by Wendy Ewald, Susan Meiselas, and myself includes many such projects, but we put them side by side with projects in which, for example, the relationship between the different protagonists is less clear, the intentions behind the acts of photography are less favorable...
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Photography, Subjectivity, and the Politics of the Image from Helke Sander to Angela Schanelec

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Mary Hennessy
Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (3 (99)): 49–73.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-7142176
Published: 01 December 2018
... ( The All-Around Reduced Personality—Redupers , West Germany, 1978), and Berlin School director Angela Schanelec’s Marseille (Germany, 2004). Examining each film’s attitude toward photography through the lens of Siegfried Kracauer’s postwar theory of film realism, this article relates the politics...
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Women with Cameras: The Invention of the Selfie in the Photography of Anne Collier

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Liz Linden
Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (2): 195–207.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-7584964
Published: 01 September 2019
... specifically positioned as an artifact of our contemporary moment in technology and culture, addressing some of the more widely held assumptions about selfies and selfie culture today. Copyright © 2019 Camera Obscura 2019 Anne Collier selfie Woman with a Camera mirror photography appropriation...
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Photography, the Archive, and the Question of Feminist Form: A Conversation with Zoe Leonard

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Huey Copeland
Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (2 (83)): 177–189.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2209952
Published: 01 September 2013
... film The Watermelon Woman (US, 1996), and You see I am here after all (2008), a gridded concatenation of vintage postcards depicting views of Niagara Falls. Zoe Leonard lives and works in New York. An artist who works primarily with photography and sculpture, she has exhibited extensively since...
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A Feminist Still: Documentary Form and Untimely Critique in Sheba Chhachhi’s Protest Photography

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Lakshmi Padmanabhan
Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (3 (105)): iv–29.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8631535
Published: 01 December 2020
... the political stakes of documentary photography’s formal conventions. First, it analyzes candid snapshots of recent protests for women’s rights in India, focusing on an iconic photograph by Chhachhi of Satyarani Chadha, a community organizer and women’s rights activist, at a rally in New Delhi in 1980...
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Remixing to Queer the Archives of Diaspora: Qajar Photography and the Persian Carpet

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Nazli Akhtari
Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (3 (111)): 1–29.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-10013590
Published: 01 December 2022
... the archives of nineteenth-century Iran, the article argues that the digital (mis)use of archives exposes what forms such as the Persian carpet and photography erase: each medium's close ties with power, labor, gender, and sexuality. It develops a relational approach to understandings of photography...
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Agnès Varda: Photography and Early Creative Process

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Rebecca J. DeRoo
Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (1 (106)): 215–229.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8838613
Published: 01 May 2021
...Rebecca J. DeRoo Abstract Agnès Varda frequently presented her career as encompassing three domains: photography, cinema, and visual art. While her cinema and late-career artistic work are widely accessible, her early photography remains a growing area of study. Moreover, it has often been repeated...
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Shooting the Mother: Fetal Photography and the Politics of Disappearance

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Carol A. Stabile
Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (1 (28)): 178–205.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-10-1_28-178
Published: 01 January 1992
...Carol A. Stabile Copyright © 1992 by Indiana University Press 1992 Figure 1. Shooting the Mother: Fetal Photography and the Politics of Disappearance Carol A. Stabile what name shall we call our selves now our mother is gone...
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Dead Woman Glowing: Karla Faye Tucker and the Aesthetics of Death Row Photography

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Karen Beckman
Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (1 (55)): 1–41.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-19-1_55-1
Published: 01 May 2004
... feminism and terrorism, and on the representation of car crashes in photography, film, and literature. Figure 1. Protestors at Tucker’s execution Dead Woman Glowing: Karla Faye Tucker and the Aesthetics of Death Row Photography Karen Beckman On 3 February 1998, the state of Texas...
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The Whiteness of Privacy: Race, Media, Law

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Eden Osucha
Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (1 (70)): 67–107.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2008-015
Published: 01 May 2009
... directly inspired by that article, Osucha links the doctrine's fundamental concern with privacy-as-property to new understandings of subjectivity, commodification, and the image produced at the nexus of an emergent commercial mass media and technological and social transformations of photography...
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Making Space: Deborah Willis and the Archive of Black Visual Culture

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Jasmine Nichole Cobb
Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (3 (105)): 132–141.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8631595
Published: 01 December 2020
...Jasmine Nichole Cobb In this interview, artist and scholar Deborah Willis describes the work of excavating and organizing the history of Black photography. Willis’s groundbreaking scholarship helped to formally establish an archive of Black visual practice before libraries and cultural institutions...
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Collectivity: Part 1

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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 1–2.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3454408
Published: 01 May 2016
... and short-form reflections—that address such topics as collaboration in photography, cinema, and video; utopias and dystopias; history and memory; modes of singleness and of togetherness; technology, embodiment, and intimacy; and feminist and queer collective practices in media and activism in various times...
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Three by Three: Lisa Cholodenko’s Attachment Trilogy

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Lee Wallace
Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (3): 97–125.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-7772399
Published: 01 December 2019
.... Whether the relationships are straight, gay, or bisexual; maternal, paternal, or filial; motivated, situational, or opportunistic; whether the worlds they inhabit are those of art photography, popular music, or medicine; whether their compulsions are addictive, obsessive, or narcissistic; the common story...
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Immaterial Child Labor: Media Advocacy, Autoethnography, and the Case of Born into Brothels

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Pooja Rangan
Camera Obscura (2011) 25 (3 (75)): 143–177.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2010-012
Published: 01 December 2011
... is a reading of Born into Brothels , an award-winning film documenting the codirector and photojournalist Zana Briski's humanitarian project to emancipate the children of prostitutes in India by training them in photography and creating avenues for them to sell their own photographs of brothel life. A close...
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Collectivity: Part 2

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the Camera Obscura collective
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 1–2.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3661973
Published: 01 December 2016
... analyses and short-form reflections—that address such topics as collaboration in photography, cinema, and video; utopias and dystopias; history and memory; modes of singleness and of togetherness; technology, embodiment, and intimacy; and feminist and queer collective practices in media and activism...
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Varda's Third Life

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Dominique Bluher
Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (1 (106)): 187–213.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8838601
Published: 01 May 2021
... up and expand on her lifelong passion for still and moving images, painting, photography, and cinema. The author also shows how Varda has rethought and reworked certain subjects that mattered to her throughout her career, by means proper to this new medium. Varda always had the gift to give us...
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Reconstructing Documentary: Connie Hatch's Representational Resistance

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Abigail Solomon-Godeau
Camera Obscura (1985) 5 (1-2 (13-14)): 112–147.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-5-1-2_13-14-112
Published: 01 September 1985
... not identified as a feminine one. Thus, in noting that throughout the history of photography women have rarely functioned as professional photographers, although frequently employed in entrepreneurial concerns as “operators,’ ’ assistants or assembly-linelabor for printing...
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Modernist Logic in Feminist Histories of Art

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Amelia Jones
Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (3 (27)): 148–165.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-9-3_27-148
Published: 01 September 1991
... of Barbara Kruger , Kate Linker. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1990. Photography at the Dock: Essays on Photographic History, Institutions, and Practices , Abigail Solomon-Godeau. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991. Copyright © 1992 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1991 Reviews...
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The Quick and the Dead: Surrealism and the Found Ethnographic Footage Films of Bontoc Eulogy and Mother Dao: The Turtlelike

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Fatimah Tobing Rony
Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (1 (52)): 129–155.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-18-1_52-129
Published: 01 May 2003
... made by Salvador Dali, Luis Buñuel, Man Ray, and the like truly exploit to the fullest what many theorists have called the photographic principle of Surrealism. This principle contends that only photography embodies the Surrealist notions of the cou- pling of two realities—a principle noted...
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The Camera: Je/La Caméra: Eye (Babette Mangolte)

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Constance Penley
Camera Obscura (1979) 1-2 (3-1 (3-4)): 194–197.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-1-2-3-1_3-4-194
Published: 01 May 1979
... and filmmaking, working closely with Marcel Hanoun, Yvonne Rainer, Chantal Aker- man, Richard Foreman, Trisha Brown, Lucinda Childs, Michael Snow and Joan Jonas. She has recently had an exhibition of her photography in New York at P.S. 1 and has just completed shooting Richard Fore- man’s new film...
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