Feelings of disgust may have effects on one’s moral judgment; specifically that experience of disgust has linked to increased severity of moral judgments. Additionally, one’s political beliefs may also affect one’s moral judgment, such as conservatives tend to make harsher judgment toward moral situations and behaviors. A 2 x 2 x 2 factorial quasi-experiment has been proposed to study 420 participants, legal adults from both conservative and liberal neighborhoods, randomly assigned to one of two conditions, disgust-eliciting versus neutral. Participants will view either four disgust-eliciting photographs or four neutral photographs, and then complete survey questions on disgust rating, moral judgment, disgust sensitivity, and political self-identification. It is hypothesized that, participants who identify as liberals, will feel less disgusted by the photos than conservative participants, and have more lenient moral judgment, whereas participants who identify as conservatives, will feel more disgusted by the photos than liberals, and have much harsher moral judgment.

Thèse (M.A.) -- Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 2005. / Bibliogr.: f. [63-64]. Document électronique également accessible en format PDF. CaQCU

The following graduate report is the review of my artistic developments after three years of rigorous training in photography at The University of Texas at Austin. After a long period of not producing artwork, my entrance into graduate school at UT was the first step for beginning to take pictures and rethinking my objectives as an artist. I have to confess that when I was applying to graduate school I did not consider art as the profession I wanted develop in my life; instead, I applied to schools that had an strong focus in commercial photography. As a Colombian, most of my concerns were more about how to make a living. In my hometown, the only way to be independent is through a professional job, rather than what in the United States is called blue-collar work, including waiting tables or services in general. When I realized again that I was immersed in an endless dialogue about art, I had to reconsider my objectives to assume the idea of how I was going to combine my creative skills with a strong research in contemporary thinking about the visual image. My three biggest challenges when entering graduate school were finding a subject to begin to photograph again, exploring the idea of being part of a new community considering my arrival from a different country, and developing strong technical photographic skills. My relation to the United States in my artwork was the first thematic. Since I was a child and until my undergraduate research project, I always came to the United States as a spectator that experienced the country from the outside. My longest encounter as an observer was in 2004 when I came to do research on illegal immigrants for my undergraduate theses research. At that time, my approach to photography and art was mostly documentary where the visual result was based on video interviews and formal portraits of a minority I was interested in. I tried to find an explanation for the immense flow of people across the border between the United States and México. Once I was already here, after three years, living in a different city, I realized that I still was interested in photographing people and decided to focus on American stereotypes. Probably one of the issues I began to face was that I discovered that I was not enjoying carrying my camera all the time and thinking as a photographer that documented daily life. My interest was more in using the camera for specific projects rather than documenting my surroundings. At that point, I realized that staging was going to be the main modus operandi for creating artwork. From there I began to think in different projects that were developed throughout the three years of the program. / text

The notion of doubledeath, as an idea to generate work, can be seen as both an ironic reflection on the medium of photography and a critical attempt to comment on contemporary culture. In short, the inherent characteristics of the photographic medium and its function within society are combined. Photography embodies both death and the beginning of something autonomous and new in the very moment of the picture-taking process. A photograph is a mere simulation of what was once there, in front of the lens, transformed onto photographic paper. It then opens up a whole range of new possibilities to the viewer. The photograph's almost life-like appearance informs the photographic myth that is the idea that a photograph provides evidence of absolute truth. This characteristic together with the possibility of manipulating and altering a photograph has been continuously exploited by mass media to influence, make and guide our perceptions towards reality. These characteristics of image-making have left the borders between fiction and fact blurred. Living in a world of over-mediation it is hard to escape and find one's way around in this melting pot of the various realities suggested. Reality today is informed by the present trace of an absent original. When this is recorded photographically, it could be described as a doubledeath. Both this research documentation and the studio work are social comments on contemporary life and artmaking. Where photographs record scenes from life informed by visual simulation (the presence of the absent) the notion of doubledeath becomes most obvious. Moreover, they reflect contemporary culture, addressing and investigating concerns fueled by today's omnipresent commodity and life-style culture, and provoking thoughts about illusion and the crises of the real. In the 21st century we interact with, acknowledge, accept or even prefer the surface over the essence of things, and real experience becomes more diluted.

A dissertação investiga a ação do diretor de teatro no âmbito da criação de imagens, e procura definir um conceito de imagem teatral tendo como modelo artístico e teórico, a fotografia. Em que medida a imagem teatral pode ser pensada a partir da imagem fotográfica? Como diferenciar cena e imagem no teatro? Visando responder a tais perguntas, o trabalho realiza um estudo conceitual das relações entre a fotografia e o teatro, recorrendo à literatura teórica das duas áreas, bem como, a textos psicanalíticos, dando especial atenção à estética da imagem construída, e à presença da encenação na produção fotográfica contemporânea. Além disso, examina o processo criativo de O problema do carteiro chinês, com o objetivo de discorrer e ponderar sobre os procedimentos de criação de uma peça totalmente baseada em imagens fotográficas, bem como, das relações entre teatro e fotografia observadas na prática. A partir do trânsito entre teoria e prática, realiza-se uma reflexão sobre o componente visual do espetáculo teatral na contemporaneidade. / This Master´s dissertation investigates the action of theater director within the scope of image creation, and seeks to define a concept of theatrical image based on the theoretical and artistic model of photography. To what extent the theatrical image can be considered from the photographic image? How to differentiate scene and image in the theater? In order to answer these questions, the work makes a conceptual study of the relationship between photography and theater, using the theoretical literature from both areas, as well as the psychoanalytic texts, giving special attention to the aesthetics of constructed image and the presence of the staging in contemporary photographic production. Furthermore, it examines the creative process of O problema do carteiro chinês (The chinese postman´s problem) in order to discuss and ponder the procedures for creating a play based entirely on photographic images, as well as the relationship between theater and photography observed in practice. From the transit between theory and practice, we reflect on the visual component of the contemporary theatrical spectacle.

A dissertação investiga a ação do diretor de teatro no âmbito da criação de imagens, e procura definir um conceito de imagem teatral tendo como modelo artístico e teórico, a fotografia. Em que medida a imagem teatral pode ser pensada a partir da imagem fotográfica? Como diferenciar cena e imagem no teatro? Visando responder a tais perguntas, o trabalho realiza um estudo conceitual das relações entre a fotografia e o teatro, recorrendo à literatura teórica das duas áreas, bem como, a textos psicanalíticos, dando especial atenção à estética da imagem construída, e à presença da encenação na produção fotográfica contemporânea. Além disso, examina o processo criativo de O problema do carteiro chinês, com o objetivo de discorrer e ponderar sobre os procedimentos de criação de uma peça totalmente baseada em imagens fotográficas, bem como, das relações entre teatro e fotografia observadas na prática. A partir do trânsito entre teoria e prática, realiza-se uma reflexão sobre o componente visual do espetáculo teatral na contemporaneidade. / This Master´s dissertation investigates the action of theater director within the scope of image creation, and seeks to define a concept of theatrical image based on the theoretical and artistic model of photography. To what extent the theatrical image can be considered from the photographic image? How to differentiate scene and image in the theater? In order to answer these questions, the work makes a conceptual study of the relationship between photography and theater, using the theoretical literature from both areas, as well as the psychoanalytic texts, giving special attention to the aesthetics of constructed image and the presence of the staging in contemporary photographic production. Furthermore, it examines the creative process of O problema do carteiro chinês (The chinese postman´s problem) in order to discuss and ponder the procedures for creating a play based entirely on photographic images, as well as the relationship between theater and photography observed in practice. From the transit between theory and practice, we reflect on the visual component of the contemporary theatrical spectacle.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:16:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 patricia.pdf: 10314725 bytes, checksum: 715f5c31241bfc42e4c33c08b3d4387a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-05-10 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / Between 1976 and 1981 Bernard Faucon staged window mannequins of children for photographic mise en scènes. These mise en scènes present celluloid dummies with glass eyes arranged in scenes constructed to appear natural and familiar (such as outdoor promenades, games and picnics) and belong to the series called Les Grandes Vacances. In some images, and disturbing the fictions, a living child is seem naked among the manequins. This research focus on the relation between verisimilitude and inverisimilitude as found between the living child and the non-living ones in this series. It also deals with the relation between the experience of time and the photographic gaze. As far as methodology is concerned, our study is based in authors such as Roland Barthes, Maurice Blanchot e Sigmund Freud, who approach, each of them in his own field of reaserch, the connections of the gaze with life and death, as well as with verisimilitude and inverisimilitude. The conclusions indicate that, in these photographs, life and truth are not to be searched in reality, for they ermerge from the non-living and the inverisimilitude. It is the mannequin, rather than the living body, that concentrates the power of guiding the gaze to places where it can experience true affections and fictionalize possible lifes. The true and living body is impossible / Entre 1976 e 1981, Bernard Faucon realizou mise en scènes fotográficas com manequins de vitrine infantis. Reunidas na série que viria a se chamar Les Grandes Vacances, elas apresentam bonecos de cera e olhos de vidro em cenas construídas para parecerem naturais e familiares como passeios ao ar livre, jogos e piqueniques. Em algumas imagens, um menino vivo, de corpo descoberto, aparece em meio aos manequins, para abalar as ficções. Esta pesquisa se debruça sobre a questão da verossimilhança e da inverossimilhança, pautada na relação entre a criança viva e a não-viva nestas imagens. Também buscamos explorar como nelas se articula a experiência do tempo e o olhar fotográfico. Metodologicamente, este trabalho parte de um diálogo com um conjunto de autores, como Roland Barthes, Maurice Blanchot e Sigmund Freud, que tangenciam, cada qual em seu próprio campo de estudo, a relação do olhar com a vida e a morte, bem como com a verossimilhança e a inverossimilhança. As conclusões às quais chegamos indicam que em Les Grandes Vacances a vida e a verdade não são buscadas pelo lado da realidade, mas emergem do não-vivo e do inverossímil. Percebemos que é o manequim que concentra todas as potências de conduzir o olhar a experienciar afetos verdadeiros e a fabular vidas possíveis. O corpo vivo e verdadeiro é impossível