Caption "D8. Across the Injasuti Valley to Champagne Castle, Monk’s Cowl, Cathkin Peak. Oct. 1958."

Caption "Landrover climbing a hill. The ridges are snow stripes in the grass – a common feature in the reserve. Oct. 1958."

Caption: “TW 3. Trees left at roadside on National Road, just west of Umzimkhulu.”

Caption: “TW 5. Dept. of Forestry’s method of identifying trees in Hogsback Forest. Oct. 1955.”

Cette thèse a pour objet les textes de Walker Evans (1903-1975), publiés de son vivant et signés de son nom. Figure majeure de la photographie américaine, dès l'exposition "American Photographs", au Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) de New York en 1938, et le livre éponyme, Evans a d'abord voulu devenir écrivain. Sauf une décennie fondatrice pour son oeuvre photographique, du début des années 1930 au début des années 1940, il n'aura, de sa vie, cessé d'écrire. Il a cependant peu théorisé sur la photographie, et ne s'y est résolu que tard. Un essai est consacré à la relation d'Evans, photographe, à l'écriture ; une anthologie réunit la plupart de ses écrits et propos, chaque texte bénéficiant d'une introduction qui le présente et l'analyse,s'appuyant notamment sur les Walker Evans Archive conservées au Metropolitan Museum of Artde New York ; un volume iconographique reproduit des publications d'Evans alliant ses textes et des images. Critique pour le magazine Time (1943-1945), au côté de son ami Agee, puis collaborateur du magazine Fortune (1945-1965), Evans invente dans ce périodique une forme de portfolio juxtaposant texte court qu'il rédige et images, les siennes ou celles d'autres, sur dessujets relevant souvent d'une culture vernaculaire. Il signe par ailleurs dans la presse des critiques,notamment sur la photographie. À partir de la fin des années 1960, alors qu'il enseigne à l'université Yale de New Haven, il publie plusieurs textes essentiels pour l'histoire du médium,dont un entretien avec Leslie Katz, au moment de sa seconde rétrospective au MoMA en 1971.Evans y fonde l'expression "style documentaire", qui qualifie sa photographie, et entraîne avec elle tout un pan de la création contemporaine. Hors Atget, les références qu'il donne pour son art sont littéraires, Flaubert et Baudelaire, ou James, Proust, Nabokov – indiquant l'importance qu'eurent toujours à ses yeux l'écriture, et le style. / This thesis aims to provide a critical study of the texts Walker Evans (1903-1975) signed and published during his lifetime. One of the most important photographers of the United States, from his exhibition "American Photographs," at the Museum of Modern Art(MoMA) of New York, and the eponymous book, in 1938, Evans first wanted to become a writer. With the exception of one decade, from the early 1930s to the early 1940s, when hefocused solely on photography and produced the core of his work, never in his life did Evansstop writing. However, he did not theorize about photography but sparingly, and quite late in life. An essay is considering the relation of the photographer to writing ; a selective anthology gathersmost of his texts, each with an introduction which presents and analyses its contents, in the light of sources from the Walker Evans Archive at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; an iconographical volume reproduces Evans's publications combining his texts and images. Evanswrote as a critic for Time Magazine (1943-1945) beside his friend Agee, then contributed to Fortune(1945-1965). He there invented the form of portfolios combining a short text he would write and images, either by him or by others, often times on vernacular subjects. Furthermore, he would sign critical essays in various periodicals, particularly on photography. From the end of the 1960s, while he was teaching at Yale University, he would publish a few theoretical writings which are decisive for the history of the medium, notably the interview with Leslie Katz which was published at the occasion of Evans's second retrospective at MoMA, in 1971. Here Evans coined the phrase "documentary style", which qualified his own photography, and would apply to manyworks by contemporary artists. At get being his main reference for photography, the other references he mentions are principally literary: Flaubert and Baudelaire, or James, Proust, Nabokov. They indicate how concerned the photographer was, always, with writing, and style.

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This research report examines the notion of the photographic document as subjective register in contemporary South African visual culture. It provides a critical framework for considering my own photographic practice, which explores how photographs can be used to concretize emotion and to register the subjectivity of the photographer. In exploring this subjectivity, I consider the notion of truth-value in the photographic document, especially in socio-documentary photography, focusing on some examples from the South African ‘struggle’ tradition. I then look at the shift towards a personal approach in photography in South Africa, using the exhibition Democracy’s Images: Photography and Visual Art after Apartheid as a case study of these shifts towards the personal in South African photography. The show helps to locate my own work, which is highly invested in the personal. The notion of affect is unpacked in considerable detail since my own work focuses primarily on the evocation of emotional experience.

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No / This paper explores the responses of 17 participants to using photo-elicitation as part of a project exploring their daily experiences of work-life balance. We explicitly asked participants about their experiences of using the method that involved taking photographs of their work-life balance experiences and interpreting these photographs through participation in semi- structured interviews. Participants took 108 photographs in total. We explore important methodological issues for researchers seeking to use these methods and explain that photograph-elicitation has much to offer management and organizational researchers. A major benefit of the method is the role of photographs as a ‘conversational technology’ in encouraging re-interpretation and reflection of experiences in a manner not always achieved when using other qualitative techniques.

This study evaluated photographs used in Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News and World Report in stories about biotechnology and food safety issues from the years 2000 and 2001. This study implemented a semiotic methodology to determine if the messages conveyed by the photographs positively or negatively communicated agricultural issues. This research found that the news magazines had a balanced number of positive and negative photographs. Data indicated that many of the photographs involved similar subjects and, therefore, could be promoting stereotypes. This research also examined the technical methods used by photographers and found that the majority of the photographs were taken with very similar camera settings. This study also found that magazines use a large number of staged shots as opposed to a more documentary style. This staging indicates that photographers have control in the messages communicated to the viewer of the photograph.