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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 164–188.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Basuli Deb Abstract Photography, not only by imperial men but also by imperial women, has played a significant role in portraying the Muslim woman as the apolitical exotic of orientalist fantasies. The legacy of colonial photography by European women travelers continues to haunt the media...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 484–507.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Basuli Deb Abstract Photography, not only by imperial men but also by imperial women, has played a significant role in portraying the Muslim woman as the apolitical exotic of orientalist fantasies, its legacies haunting the media of the global North even today. Imperial feminist representations...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 348–373.
Published: 01 October 2023
...Grace L. Sanders Johnson Abstract This essay explores the relationship between imaging, archival cataloging, and African diasporic belonging through the developed and undeveloped photography of Haitian anthropologist Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain. Using her family correspondences and research...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 332–359.
Published: 01 October 2024
... and globalized in a way that helps sales. This is done purposefully using text and graphics, including digital storytelling, buzzwords, and vibrant photography. Contrary to the Marxist framework of alienation, artisans are presented as workers who find joy in their work. Alt-profits invite consumers to buy...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 161–182.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Lily Mabura; Ronak Husni Abstract Bader Hirsi (1968–) is a renowned Yemeni British filmmaker whose works include the documentary The English Sheikh and the Yemeni Gentleman (2000) and the feature film A New Day in Old Sana’a (2005) . This essay explores how photography and film creatively interact...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 436–454.
Published: 01 October 2022
... , no. 1 : 79 – 87 . Cookman Claude . 2008 . “ Henri Cartier-Bresson Reinterprets his Career .” History of Photography 32 , no. 1 : 59 – 73 . Grigsby Darcy Grimaldo . 2015 . Enduring Truths: Sojourner’s Shadows and Substance . Chicago : University of Chicago Press...
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 26–52.
Published: 01 September 2015
... Cried was developed upon invitation from the prestigious Getty Museum, as Weems was tapped to participate in an exhibition curated by Weston Naef called Hidden Witness: African Americans in Early Photography. Weems's contribution brilliantly troubles the very premise underlying Hidden Witness: the idea...
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Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 132–140.
Published: 01 September 2011
... in our faith and survival. The "imagined" and the "real" are tightly woven into the fabric of photography. Historically, the images of Haiti throughout the world rarely show what was real in the lives of Haitian people; they continued to perpetuate what others imagined. Through the photography, research...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 1–38.
Published: 01 March 2004
... of authenticity, transparency, and veracity. Belief in objectivity in news reporting, and faith in the mechanical qualities of the camera have long supported assertions about photojournalism's ability to witness. In the 1930s, the popularity of documentary photography, news reels, and the new picture magazines...
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Meridians (2005) 6 (1): 82–110.
Published: 01 September 2005
... at the Houston Center for Photography; Light Work in Syracuse, New York; Sepia International in New YorkCity; DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts; and Center for Photography at Woodstock, New York.6 Her work has also recently been showcased in the Victoria and Albert Museum's summer 2002 series entitled...
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Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 163–167.
Published: 01 September 2011
... is also a writer, performer, and educator who teaches photography, poetry, multi-media studies, and global history, seeking to stimulate artistic expression, critical inquiry, and social activism in her students. In 1995, she received her BS in International Studies from Bowie State University...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 97–106.
Published: 01 September 2018
... Esquilín , born in Puerto Rico, has more than twenty-five years of experience working as a journalist for the main newspapers of Puerto Rico and in collaborations for international TV and newspapers. She has complemented her journalistic career with teaching and photography in self-management initiatives...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 268–271.
Published: 01 March 2004
...) entitled Just Advocacy: Women'sHumanRights,TransnationalFeminismand thePoliticsof Representation (Rutgers University Press, forthcoming). Her new research project is VisibleWarsandAmericanNationalism: Militarization and Photography, 1970s to thepresent. HARRYETIE MULLEN is the author of six books, most...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 513–521.
Published: 01 December 2020
... photography We are 49 million Black women—in other words, 25 percent of the Brazilian population. We experience the most perverse racism and sexism by virtue of being Black and women. We face daily White supremacy and patriarchy and sexism, which constitute a system of oppressions that prompt Black...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 150–162.
Published: 01 September 2018
... selves as students, workers, and members of families spliced together with themselves dressed casually or in poses that might seem threatening. Such a photography project, Campt theorizes, represents how the sitters “actively anticipate their premature deaths through these photos” (109). These self...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 465–489.
Published: 01 October 2024
... publics took shape through “marches, protests, educational forums, and conferences” (Jadallah 2004 : 77), but also through engagements with photography. As a medium of both visual art and scientific documentation, traditional photography is imbued with what Tom Gunning refers to as the medium’s “truth...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 1–7.
Published: 01 April 2019
... filmmaker Bader Hirsi’s creative blending of media forms in his 2005 feature film, A New Day in Old Sana’a, also works to recover and represent Yemen’s complex heritage, including legacies from the Horn of Africa and Western colonialism. Mabura and Husani argue that the use of photography, filmography...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 169–179.
Published: 01 April 2023
... of inclusion and exclusion,” and “grounded theory” come together in this essay through photography in an effort to expand on Bourdieu’s poststructuralist theories in examining the art field as a construct that reveals power struggles and power relations beyond national borders (Jurt 1995 ; 1998), even...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 413–435.
Published: 01 October 2022
... realization of the power of photography in organizing against white supremacy points to the role of aesthetic force in the relationship between rendering Black life and rendering Black art. In addition to aesthetic force, and more recent work on “groundwork aesthetics,” her writing suggests mastery, failure...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 231–239.
Published: 01 October 2023
... solidarities in the context of intersecting and competing imperialisms, settler-colonialisms, and nationalisms. Serendipitously, in analyzing Comhaire-Sylvain’s photography, Sanders Jonson draws on the work of our cover artist, Haitian-American anthropologist Gina Athena-Ulysse, whose piece “Indigo” offers...