Pinboard: bookmarks for jannon tagged 'imagery'

Brooklyn Museum: Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present

via cassettemythos; quoting mts: "In Buckland's attempt to elevate the visual culture of rock music, she glosses over a lot of important stuff for the sake of history. Case in point: the Stones concert photo. It's an interesting photo, but the access for that show was restricted to *one* photographer. I don't believe that photographs are truthful, but I do care about who and what has a stake in determining the final outcome of an image -- and restricting media access certainly calls that into question. Concert photographs are typically published as 'news,' which grapples with its own issues of objectivity. Yes, this is like any other sort of photojournalism, but in the realm of music coverage, it has a variety of issues. . . . Overall, I find the exhibit to be a fascinating memory product. The music industry is a sinking ship, and here we have an exhibit that packages it as edgy and attractive."

20th.century access brooklyn control culture delicious-export documentary exhibit exhibition history imagery images industry marketing museum music news packaging photography photojournalism pop popular production propaganda
november 2009 by jannon

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Research and Education - E.A. (Eliza) Steinbock - University of Amsterdam

"The trans-disciplinarity of the project is inspired by the shimmering visual status of some cinematic images; hence, it explores how this visuality might relate to some gender states-of-becoming. The development of this central concept, “shimmering,” will allow me to address the cultural difficulty in seeing and knowing those represented transgender experiences which waver in a largely uncharted “in-between” state of gender. Moreover, I am interested in seeing how shimmering can be used as a critical concept to modify key terms such as subjectivity, corporeality, sexuality, and truth. My interests are in corporeal/material feminism, somatechnics, Deleuzian film theory, post-structuralist philosophy, the Frankfurt School, visual culture, transgender studies, queer theory and (post-)pornography."

aesthetics amsterdam becoming bodies cinema corporeality deleuze delicious-export epistemology erotics eve.sedgwick femininity feminism foucault frankfurt.school freud gender imagery images in-between knowing lability lacan marx masculinity materialism mieke.bal people philosophy pornography post-structuralism queer representation seeing sexuality shimmering somatechnics status subjectivity theory trans transgender transition truth visual visuality walter.benjamin wavering
october 2009 by jannon

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