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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (2 (77)): 1–31.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Irene Gustafson This article analyzes Shirley Clarke's seminal film, Portrait of Jason (US, 1967). Through an examination of the film's formal qualities within the context of its production and reception, this article argues that the film is best understood as a “screen test.” The relatively scant...
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Published: 01 September 2021
Figure 1. Robert Haller, Portrait of Carolee Schneemann (1978). Photographic print, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. © Robert Haller. Made available by permission. Photograph © 2021 Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
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in Maria Hirszbein: An (In)visible Figure of Polish Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 December 2021
Figure 1. Portrait photo of Maria Hirszbein with her dog, Czwartek. © Filmoteka Narodowa – Instyut Audiowizualny
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in “The very palpitation of life!”: “The Leaves Are Stirring” in Context
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 December 2022
Figure 2. Nicole Vedrès in 1964. Portrait de Nicole Vedrès (dir. Jean-Claude Bergeret, France, 1964). Television program
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Published: 01 May 2023
Figure 1. Production photograph, Portrait d'une jeune fille de la fin des années 60 à Bruxelles (dir. Chantal Akerman, Belgium, 1994). Collections Cinematek / Chantal Akerman Foundation. © Jean-Michel Vlaeminckx / Cinergie
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (3 (114)): 173–201.
Published: 01 December 2023
... Andrea has itself been framed as belonging to the genre of the self‐portrait, although it certainly isn't straightforwardly autobiographical. In fact, Lovely Andrea calls into question the very notions of “self” and “portrait” by interrogating the conditions of possibility for each, as well...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (1 (112)): 31–53.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Figure 1. Production photograph, Portrait d'une jeune fille de la fin des années 60 à Bruxelles (dir. Chantal Akerman, Belgium, 1994). Collections Cinematek / Chantal Akerman Foundation. © Jean-Michel Vlaeminckx / Cinergie ...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 175–185.
Published: 01 May 2016
... produced as part of this project, Self-Portrait with Three Women (dir. Zhang Mengqi, China, 2010) and Children's Village (dir. Zou Xueping, China, 2012), the article argues that the project produces a counterhistory through collective film production in a digital format. These films foreground...
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (3 (105)): iv–29.
Published: 01 December 2020
.... It attends to the way in which such photographs turn personal scenes of mourning into collective memorials to militancy, even as they embalm their subjects in a state of temporal paralysis and strip them of their individual history. It contrasts these snapshots to Chhachhi’s collaborative portrait of Chadha...
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (2 (56)): 1–45.
Published: 01 September 2004
..., have produced portraits that visual-
Copyright © 2004 by Camera Obscura
Camera Obscura 56, Volume 19, Number 2
Published by Duke University Press
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ize and celebrate their subjects’ own particular styles of self- (and
other-) fashioned masculinity. The works of both...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (1 (106)): 61–85.
Published: 01 May 2021
...-portraiture vis-à-vis Jean-Luc Nancy's texts, “The Look of the Portrait” and L'Autre Portrait ( The Other Portrait ), 5 these pages shift toward Nancy's thoughts on listening and the “formation of a subject first of all as the rhythmic reployment/deployment of an enveloping between ‘inside’ and ‘outside...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (1 (70)): 67–107.
Published: 01 May 2009
... to a legal case largely
premised on “The Right to Privacy.” As I will elaborate in this
essay, Roberson v. Rochester Folding Box Company (1902) concerned a
young white woman whose photographic portrait had been sold by
a photographer to a company who used her image to market a pre...
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Camera Obscura (2005) 20 (1 (58)): 185–207.
Published: 01 May 2005
.... She also produces television documentaries and short films. Velvet portrait of the “dusky maiden” from Velvet Dreams
(dir. Sima Urale, New Zealand, 1997).
Courtesy of TopShelf Productions
Darkness and Light:
Dusky Maidens
and Velvet Dreams
Sarina Pearson
Historically, Pacific...
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Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (1 (61)): 71–103.
Published: 01 May 2006
.... Lee,
Joe Johnston, Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, and Thomas J.
“Stonewall” Jackson, as well as a large commemorative portrait of
Jefferson Davis. The book comprises formal records, such as Man-
igault’s war papers, but also scraps and tokens of experience, such
as a piece...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (1 (106)): 187–213.
Published: 01 May 2021
... to and a détournement of a traditional altarpiece. Of the work, Varda wrote, “I had certainly thought of early paintings with a predella composed of narrative scenes. (Fra Angelico painted seventeen portraits of saints on the bottom of his large Crucifixion , and even added eleven smaller portraits on the upper half...
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Camera Obscura (2000) 15 (1 (43)): 163–191.
Published: 01 May 2000
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to cooperate with the film project.
In the cellar of the antique store, among the hundreds of
objects that recollect the greatness of Persia’s past and its relation
to the world at large, Modabber finds a dusty portrait of a woman
he recognizes as his wife...
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Camera Obscura (2000) 15 (2 (44)): 75–103.
Published: 01 September 2000
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ing voice of the narrator superimposed, is repeated at irregular
intervals throughout Jean-Luc Godard’s JLG/JLG—Autoportrait de
décembre [ JLG/JLG—Self-portrait in December] (France, 1994).
But how are we to interpret it? Is it primarily a visual...
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Camera Obscura (1983) 4 (2 (11)): 132–145.
Published: 01 September 1983
... [Empress From the Lean-to]
TV film episode in the series "Generation Problems."
1979 EvaMattes-Fragen an eine Mutter [EvaMattes-Questions Fora Mother]
Documentary about the film actress Eva Mattes.
1979 Portrdt eines Scbauspieiers [Portrait ofan Actor...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (3 (111)): 69–85.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Figure 2. Nicole Vedrès in 1964. Portrait de Nicole Vedrès (dir. Jean-Claude Bergeret, France, 1964). Television program ...
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Camera Obscura (2011) 25 (3 (75)): 143–177.
Published: 01 December 2011
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lery link is located at an eye-line level with the title in the naviga-
tion bar — and you click instead on “About the Kids,” a tapestry
of portraits unfolds, revealing close-up individual photos of the
child stars of Born into Brothels. These portraits, accompanied by
the briefest...
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