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...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...

... 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...

...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 ...

... 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...

.... 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...

..., have produced portraits that visual- Copyright © 2004 by Camera Obscura Camera Obscura 56, Volume 19, Number 2 Published by Duke University Press 1 2 • Camera Obscura ize and celebrate their subjects’ own particular styles of self- (and other-) fashioned masculinity. The works of both...

... expose us to ourselves while always foregrounding the woman, and women, behind, before, and beyond the lens. Copyright © 2021 by Camera Obscura Published by Duke University Press 2021 7. Bluher, “Other Portrait,” 49. 8. Anthony Gritten, “ Listening , by Jean-Luc Nancy,” trans. Charlotte...

... 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...

.... 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...

.... 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...

... potatoes puts the “utopian” project Patatutopia even more in perspective. Série patates coeur features heart-shaped potatoes lovingly pictured on makeshift pedestals, well lit in front of backgrounds chosen in accordance with the “personality” of the potato. These “portraits” do not anthropomorphize...

... 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...

...- 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...

... [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...

...Figure 2. Nicole Vedrès in 1964. Portrait de Nicole Vedrès (dir. Jean-Claude Bergeret, France, 1964). Television program ...

...- 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...