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... containing certain photographic‐mechanical evidence to prove someone's existence in a scientific manner. Such a belief in the scientific nature of camera images bears a striking similarity with positivist historical approaches. Contrastingly, what Kracauer saw in film as a medium was rather the presence...

... the shots coming from before dropping to the floor. Mere seconds later, the murderer was caught with a homemade gun, his motivation not quite clear. The whole sequence took only a few seconds and was caught on multiple mobile phone cameras used in a mundane way to snap pictures of the local event...

..., but something that might be associated with the queer, a form of defiance aiming to “undo restrictively normative conceptions” of sexuality and gender. After considering Byun as an icon of transgressive gender and sexuality, this essay delves into her queer camera work and visual narrative structure...

... of the intimately embodied vision, haptic camera, reflexive performances, as well as subjectivized editing strategies manifest in their works, I demonstrate that Shi and Cui not only present alternative perspectives on identity issues from inside the queer communities but, more significantly, they practice a boldly...

...Nicole Huang Family portraits from the 1960s and 1970s have been a source of inspiration for contemporary Chinese artists. In recent experimental works, many artists have used family portraits to reinvent the very ideas of the camera, the album, and the familial gaze as vehicles of longing...

..., they are characterized by the camera’s introspective gaze, a gaze directed toward the filmmaker herself. The films show various reflexive images of the director, such as her shadows, her reflections on a car window, and her images taken by her relative. This introspective (self-mirroring) style of Kawase’s documentaries...

... does photojournalism become a kind of witnessing linked to the work of mourning? How are trauma and grieving braided together in the experience of photographers covering war? What is the role of the camera, and what are the ambivalent effects of the technical and aesthetic imaging of the dead...

... “independence” as an ontopolitical premise of archipelagic lives. Archipelagic optics indexes a form of decolonial sensing by refuting the impersonal, monocular eye of military cameras used by multiple empires to surveil Pacific islands. As this article will demonstrate, the decolonial goes beyond...

... depicting a butoh performance — or a butoh performer — these films frequently use medium-­long shots or long shots. The camera is situated outside the performance space, positioned as an “objective” observer of an event. There is an inclination...

... in the same year as The Ends of the Earth, makes use of occa- sional direct address to camera on the part of its subjects, while Ying Wei- wei’s The Box (Hezi, 2001) reproduces the talking head in a more traditional form in its opening sequences...

... of Taiwan Cinema. Cai, however, like his famous New Taiwan Cinema predecessor Hou Hsiao-hsien (Hou Xiaoxian), is a film practitioner who speaks mainly through the experiments of film art and the aesthetics of his camera...

... 634 through its multiple frames — ­pictorial, spatial, and ideological. A photo is more than material evidence of what took place in front of the camera: it contains vestiges of the photographic apparatus and the frame imposed...

... of this sequence, Yasuko remains immobile in the center of the picture, preventing Motoki from reenacting Endo's shot. As Motoki's camera continues to record, a mail delivery man unexpectedly comes into the frame and asks Yasuko to step away from the mailbox. Yasuko does not respond. A policeman suddenly runs...

...- tory, in which shared memories and memory objects can move from one realm to another, shifting meaning and context, the camera image-pho- tograph, film, and video/television-plays a very particular role. Images have profound capacities...

..., 1972, USSR) forms, in a form of cutting that is used to fragment the human figure, in the prominent use of windows and doorways as framing devices, and in circular camera movements that sensuously traverse space (figs. 5 – 6...

...Figure 3 Illustration in Children's Morning Post (“Anxiang he yanqiu” 1933 : 1) showcasing structural affinities between the human eye and the camera. ...

... . Armstrong Carol . 1993 . “Biology, Destiny, Photography: Difference According to Diane Arbus.” October 66 : 28 – 54 . Azoulay Ariella . [2006] 2008 . The Civil Contract of Photography . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press . Barthes Roland . [1981] 1993 . Camera Lucida...

.... With such technical devices as long takes, expressive or static camera framing, and sound-image disjunctions, the places and landscapes in both films are perceived as the nonhuman agent that has long witnessed and preserved the collective memory and trauma of the victims and survivors, however illegible or invisible...