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Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:42:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Flavia Maria Goncalves Lobo.pdf: 2224138 bytes, checksum: 5e7eae42e14e1b919b36477a4b5b6404 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-08-22 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This research tries to elucidate the question of the credibility of the photographic image after the technological age. That is, it is not a research that works pautada in the untiring quarrel if the photograph shows to the real or a trace of the real, this is a philosophical and semiótic bias, however to this research it more mentions this problematic one as part of the passage of the history of the carried through studies already until today with the photographic image, moreover this is a quarrel that already very was incited in the half academics and for the enthusiastic ones of the subject. The studies had been directed more for the credibility of the ampler point of view as for the individuals in general, the laypeople, fans of the photograph, to the readers of periodicals and magazines, at last, the people in a general way. After the digital technology doubts on the credibility in the photographic image they had started to hang in air, for the fact of that previously the people did not give account that the photographs could be modified, that the photograph is a process that always was modified, that already it was born manipulated for being chemical a physical process. The research walks to the side of sociology, therefore it was with the technological evolution that these questions had come to up, the individuals had started to buy cameras in very bigger number of what they bought has 30 years behind, the majority of the people has a compact cameras, cameras in the cellular ones, as well as almost everybody has access the internet and see transmitted images being of a side for the other, interacting of this form intensely. Today we live a imagétic society. In way that the photographic image is losing force in what its credibility says respect. One searched diverse sorts of representation of the photograph; journalism, authorial, conceptual and advertising, since its analogical production until our days with the imagétic profusion of the digial age and in each photographic language the research in shows different behavior to them with respect to credibility in the respective photographic productions / O estudo procura elucidar a questão da credibilidade da imagem fotográfica depois que surgiram aparelhos fotográficos mais avançados em tecnologia e em precisão de imagem. Não é uma pesquisa pautada pela discussão se a fotografia mostra o real ou um traço do real. Esta pesquisa menciona tal questão, porém mais como parte do percurso da história dos estudos já realizados até hoje com a imagem fotográfica, mesmo porque essa é uma discussão que já estaria muito acirrada nos meios acadêmicos e entre os entusiastas do assunto. Os estudos direcionaram-se mais para a credibilidade do ponto de vista mais amplo no que se refere aos indivíduos em geral, os leigos, amadores da fotografia, aos leitores de jornais e revistas, enfim, às pessoas em geral. Depois da tecnologia digital, dúvidas sobre a credibilidade da imagem fotográfica começaram a pairar no ar, pelo fato de que as pessoas anteriormente não se davam conta de que as fotografias pudessem ser alteradas, que a fotografia era um processo que sempre fora alterado, que já nasceu manipulada por ser um processo físico/químico. A pesquisa caminha ao lado da socioeconomia, pois foi com a evolução tecnológica que essas questões vieram à tona, os indivíduos começaram a comprar câmeras em número muito maior do que compravam há trinta anos, inúmeras pessoas possuem câmeras compactas, câmeras nos celulares, assim como quase todo mundo acessa a internet e veem imagens sendo transmitidas simultaneamente em vários lugares interagindo intensamente. Hoje vivemos uma sociedade imagética. A imagem fotográfica está perdendo força no que diz respeito à sua credibilidade.Pesquisaram-se diversos gêneros de representação da fotografia; jornalística, amadora, autoral, conceitual e publicitária, desde sua produção analógica até os nossos dias com a profusão imagética da era digital. Em cada linguagem fotográfica a pesquisa revela diferentes comportamentos no que se refere à credibilidade das produções fotográficas de quem está atrás da câmera

In my master thesis I deal with a retouch of contemporary journalistic photography (in the period from 90's to the present). Thus they are digital photographs, which I compare with analogue photography. Retouch of analogue photography was technically more exacting than retouch of digital photography and people couldn't imagine the way of editing photography therefore they trusted to it. I assume that the truth pretension was preserved in the case of journalistic photography. My hypothesis is that the media play upon the truth pretension of the journalistic photography. The photography should have represented the reality. But nowadays we already know that it is not have to be like that. Nevertheless detection of edited photographs evokes a scandal, a shock and a discussion. The media retouch photographs and thereby actually modify the reality. The whole my hypothesis is: The media play upon the truth pretension of the journalistic photography which they edit with use of retouch technique thereby they modify the reality and it evokes a scandal after revealing the edited photography.

This netnographic and autoethnographic study examines self-presentation and impression formation through photographs presented on a gay online dating community, Qruiser. The theoretical framework of Goffman’s performance of self and Asch’s formation of impression was developed based on semiotic signifiers and signified. The study was carried out through participant observation of 200 gay daters’ photographs, online interviews, group discussions and narratives of the author’s personal experience. Observation showed that gay daters primarily presented six categories of photographs: self-portrait, daily pictures, travel pictures, sexually explicit pictures, pictures of objects, and black and white pictures. The daters were asked to justify their photographs in self-presentations, and the responses showed that the signs in the photographs could be both intentional and unintentional. Online interviews and group discussion participants suggested that there were distinctions of central and peripheral signifiers in impression formation. Furthermore, participants felt that misunderstanding of impressions resulting from dating photographs was unimportant, due to the compensation of textual presentation and messages.

Set up as a visual investigation, the research explores how the addition of paint and graphite materials onto the surface of found and discarded photographs, creates a visual and conceptual disjuncture by punctuating and altering the temporal frame of the photograph. The research is positioned in relation to Susan Sontag’s description in On Photography (1977) as to how the photograph can at once “transfix” and “anesthetize” the subject matter, which through the passage of time serves to create an “aesthetic distance,” and Roland Barthes’ observation in Camera Lucida (1980) that the photograph is “platitudinous.” The tendency to project nostalgic sentiment onto the found vernacular photograph is explored, drawing on Susan Stewart’s notion of the authentic object in On Longing (1984), which, it is argued, when expressed in the form of the found photographic object, becomes an emblem of loss, further exaggerating the sense of distance and impenetrability. Working specifically with the found photograph prompts a questioning of previous critical commentaries concerning painting over photographs, as in Gerhard Richter’s ‘Overpaintings,’ where Joannes Meinhardt (2009) suggests that the addition of paint intensifies the essential “speechlessness” of the photograph. This research extends these discourses and contributes a counter critical position, supported and articulated through an original body of work. It proposes that the applied paint on the surface of the found photograph punctures the essential “speechlessness” and unknowability magnified within this subset of photography. The very physical materiality and difference offered by the paint medium ruptures the perception of distance and mediates the tendency towards nostalgic interpretations, bringing a level of stability and certainty in the face of the uncertain, fluctuating meaning and temporal plane of the found photograph.

Daguerreotypes, nineteenth century photographs made entirely of metal, tarnish easily when exposed to atmosphere or other corrosive environments. The removal of such corrosion products has always been a controversial issue due to the irreversibility and potential damage inflicted by the treatment process. When performed using the proper technique and tools, electrochemical cleaning has been shown to remediate daguerreotype corrosion without causing damage to the object. This investigation explores in detail the effects of electrochemically treating daguerreotypes to better comprehend the physical, chemical, and aesthetic changes which occur during tarnish remediation. Such analysis includes understanding the extent to which tarnish is removed from the object, whether the microstructure and surface roughness are altered, and whether deposits are formed on the surface as the result of cleaning. Before characterizing the effects of treatment, a reliable and consistent electrochemical cleaning method was optimized on modern, custom-made daguerreotype coupons. These coupons were tarnished in controlled settings to create silver sulfide or silver oxide, two commonly found daguerreotype corrosion products. They were then treated by the optimized electrochemical cleaning process, which involved immersing the object in a 0.1 M NaNO3 electrolyte and connecting it to a platinum counter electrode, an Hg/Hg2SO4 reference electrode, and a potentiostat. Tests were executed to determine the most effective voltage for removing each corrosion product. Full characterization of the modern coupons was performed prior to corrosion, after corrosion, and after electrochemical remediation to provide full understanding of the treatment effects. Characterization techniques include scanning electron microscopy/energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, atomic force microscopy, x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. The optimized process was also tested on three nineteenth century daguerreotypes, and the changes fully characterized and compared to those of modern samples. Both silver sulfide and silver oxide were noticeably reduced as the result of electrochemical cleaning, while the treatment process did not alter the physical and chemical features of the daguerreotype image particles or silver base layer. The results provide a much better understanding of the electrochemical cleaning process on a chemical and microscopic level, allowing conservators to make informed, scientifically-supported treatment decisions for their clients and institutions.

My work addresses notions of the American landscape through image, memory, and experience. Using found images, video, and a variety of materials to make objects I investigate the intersection of external representations of landscape in American culture and internalized desires of landscapes.

There are many archival photography collections that are forgotten or ignored because of their lack of accompanying written documentation. Despite this, these collections have tremendous value which can be discovered through alternate methods of research and analysis. This thesis provides an example of how to approach and research such collections by examining the work of Ernest William Albert Crocker, whose business, Trio Photograph and Supply Company, operated in Victoria from 1908-1946. It presents an introductory review of Crocker's life and work from what he left behind in the Trio Photograph Collection which consists of over 20,000 images. This thesis examines his photographs from both documentary and aesthetic perspectives and constructs a comparison between Crocker's work and that of a contemporary Vancouver photographer, Leonard Frank (1870-1944). It establishes an appreciation for the significance of the Trio Photograph Collection within the contexts of social and photo-history and lays the foundation from which any future research of Crocker' s photographs can begin. / Graduate

O propósito principal desta dissertação é realizar uma primeira análise da vida e da obra do fotógrafo santista José Dias Herrera, considerando a sua relevância como profissional no contexto da história da fotografia no Brasil, assim como o valor documental da sua obra para a história de Santos. Nosso estudo procura abarcar o período que vai de 1937, quando Herrera iniciou sua carreira como fotógrafo, até os dias de hoje. Do seu enorme acervo, foram selecionadas imagens que documentam as transformações da paisagem e dos hábitos urbanos de Santos, a presença de personalidades de projeção nacional e internacional, bem como, os grandes dramas políticos que afetaram o País, ao longo do tempo. É nossa esperança que este trabalho venha contribuir para a memória da cidade de Santos através da fotografia. / This paper aims at carrying out a first analysis of the life and work of a santista photographer called José Dias Herrera, taking into account his importance as a professional in Brazil historical context, as well as the contribution of his work to the history of Santos. This research tried to cover the period from 1937, when Herrera initiated his career as a photographer, until today. From his collection it was selected the images that show the transformation in the scenery and in the urban habits of Santos, personalities nationally or internationally famous as well as huge political dramas that has affected the country through the years. We hope that this paper will contribute to the memory of Santos through photograph.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-05T19:35:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 7 / Nenhuma / Os encontros mobilizados nas migrações entre culturas são uma temática emergente que envolve muitos cidadãos brasileiros e outros cidadãos do mundo. Este relatório apresenta uma pesquisa que investigou o encontro de brasileiros migrantes com a China, procurando entender os processos, intensidades, afetos e afecções que nesse encontro emergiram. Para tanto utilizamos a carto(foto)grafia, que se constituiu de um entrelaçamento da cartografia com a fotografia. A exploração do campo ocorreu durante nove meses na cidade de Dongguan, situada ao sul da China. Realizamos uma intervenção com dez brasileiros residentes nessa cidade, na qual os migrantes produziram imagens fotográficas sobre seus encontros, imagens que foram discutidas posteriormente em oficinas. A atenção cartográfica permitiu-nos a seleção de algumas fotografias que foram analisadas a partir de processos de criação e significação, bem como foram relacionadas com a observação do campo e as intensidades que apareceram nessa intervenção. Os brasileiros m / The mobilized encounters in the migrations between cultures are an emergent thematic that involve many Brazilian citizens and other citizens of the world. This report presents a research investigating the encounter of Brazilians expatriates with China, seeking to understand the processes, intensities and affections that emerged from this encounter. In such a way we use the carto(photo)graphy, meaning the interlacement of the cartography with the photograph. The exploration of the field occurred during nine months in the city of Dongguan, situated in south China. An intervention was carried through with ten Brazilian residents in this city. Each expatriate produced photographs about their encounters. Images that were later discussed in workshops. The cartographic attention allowed us the election of some photographs that were analyzed by process of creation and meaning. The photographs were also related to field comment. The Brazilian expatriates create an existential territory in which they share the difficu