Dissertation submitted in partial compliance with the requirements for the Master's Degree in Technology: Photography, Durban University of Technology, 2012. / The aim of this research is to document and evaluate the Imvunge group of street photographers in Durban with specific reference to the development of photographic and business skills from 1999 to 2009. This study will focus on a discussion of how members of the Imvunge group started their photographic careers as street photographers and how, through participating in projects and workshops, they developed their photographic skills and became professional photographers. This will include an investigation of both photographic skills such as image capturing, lighting techniques, image presentation and visual literacy; as well as business skills such as basic accounting and marketing. Chapter One provides an account of the history of photographic techniques and street photography in Europe, Africa, South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal and Durban in order to provide a context to the formation of the Imvunge group of photographers. Chapter Two provides an historical background of the candidate’s work as a street photographer in Durban from 1969 to 1989, before registering at Technikon Natal for formal training in photography. It also discusses his life history from being a young businessman, a lecturer, in order to provide information regarding the business and photographic skills acquired and which he was able to impart to street photographers. Chapter Three documents the formation of the Imvunge Street Photographers’ group; the partnership between the Imvunge group and the Durban Art Gallery, the Imvunge group’s exhibitions and projects, the history of selected members of the Imvunge group and an analysis of their work to provide evidence of an improvement in their photographic skills. The conclusion will present findings from this research project and will include a proposal for areas of research. / DUT Postgrad Development and Support Directorate.

The conceptual foundation for my work lies in the idea of "interaction." I work towards exposing this idea in its more basic and routine form, as well as the broad scope of it. Ranging beyond the common associations made with human to human interaction, my work enters a number of realms including environmental, architectural, and intra-personal interactions, working amongst the subtleties of each. I seek to create an image of relate-able experience, thus I feel the medium of photography is necessitated, as it is rooted in the idea of documentary and realism, in effect, cataloguing images of or influenced by the outside world.

Esta pesquisa intitulada Verdade ou mentira? Considerações sobre o flagrante, o pseudoflagrante e a composição na fotografia de German Lorca, tem como assunto a fotografia de rua que o fotógrafo paulistano German Lorca realizou entre o final da década de 1940 e início dos anos 1950, no âmbito do Foto-Cine Clube Bandeirante. O estudo demonstra a maneira como Lorca utiliza-se do flagrante e de seu falseamento (denominado livremente de pseudoflagrante na dissertação), muitas vezes enfatizando a composição da fotografia por meio do corte. A fim de atingir esse objetivo a dissertação fundamenta-se em questões que remontam à tradição da busca da representação do movimento na arte ocidental, passando pela fotografia de rua que vem sendo praticada desde meados do século XIX, no exterior e no Brasil. Assim, mostra como noções implícitas nesse amplo contexto teriam servido de parâmetros para a produção das cenas cotidianas de German Lorca, dentro da fotografia moderna brasileira. / This research is called Verdade ou Mentira? Considerações sobre o flagrante, o pseudoflagrante e a composição na fotografia de German Lorca (True or False? Considerations on The Snapshot, The Pseudosnapshot and The Composition in German Lorcas Photography). The research has as it subject the street photographs taken by Lorca a Sao Paulo photographer , from the late 1940s to the early 1950s, within the scope of the Foto-Cine Clube Bandeirante (Bandeirante Photo-Cine Club). The study shows how Lorca uses the snapshot and its forgery (loosely called pseudosnaphot in this dissertation), often emphasizing the photographs composition by means of the cut. To meet this objective, the dissertation is based on issues that go back to western arts traditional search to represent movement, through street photographs that have been taken since the mid-nineteenth century, both in Brazil and abroad. In this way, it shows how implicit notions in this broad context would have served as parameters for German Lorcas production of everyday scenes, within modern Brazilian photography.

The role and position of the documentary street photographer is examined in the context of other forms of contemporary visual survey, including Google Street View. The Street View methodology is critically examined and related to the methodologies of other visual artists, including street photographers Peter Black and Robert Frank. Comparisons are drawn between the methodological restrictions imposed by Street View and those imposed by the photographers in the course of their practice. The issue of authorship is discussed and the lack of specific authorship of Street View is related to its inability to augment the viewer's personal sense of space. Wainuiomata, a suburb of Hutt City in Wellington, New Zealand, is introduced as a location for the author's research into how documentary photography might operate. The author's own phenomenological history is considered, and it is proposed that Wainuiomata may act as a mirror which reflects a sense of place derived from personal history, triggered by the visual landscape. The author's installation work The 1 p.m. Project is discussed and contextualised as a response to the author's research findings.

Esta pesquisa intitulada Verdade ou mentira? Considerações sobre o flagrante, o pseudoflagrante e a composição na fotografia de German Lorca, tem como assunto a fotografia de rua que o fotógrafo paulistano German Lorca realizou entre o final da década de 1940 e início dos anos 1950, no âmbito do Foto-Cine Clube Bandeirante. O estudo demonstra a maneira como Lorca utiliza-se do flagrante e de seu falseamento (denominado livremente de pseudoflagrante na dissertação), muitas vezes enfatizando a composição da fotografia por meio do corte. A fim de atingir esse objetivo a dissertação fundamenta-se em questões que remontam à tradição da busca da representação do movimento na arte ocidental, passando pela fotografia de rua que vem sendo praticada desde meados do século XIX, no exterior e no Brasil. Assim, mostra como noções implícitas nesse amplo contexto teriam servido de parâmetros para a produção das cenas cotidianas de German Lorca, dentro da fotografia moderna brasileira. / This research is called Verdade ou Mentira? Considerações sobre o flagrante, o pseudoflagrante e a composição na fotografia de German Lorca (True or False? Considerations on The Snapshot, The Pseudosnapshot and The Composition in German Lorcas Photography). The research has as it subject the street photographs taken by Lorca a Sao Paulo photographer , from the late 1940s to the early 1950s, within the scope of the Foto-Cine Clube Bandeirante (Bandeirante Photo-Cine Club). The study shows how Lorca uses the snapshot and its forgery (loosely called pseudosnaphot in this dissertation), often emphasizing the photographs composition by means of the cut. To meet this objective, the dissertation is based on issues that go back to western arts traditional search to represent movement, through street photographs that have been taken since the mid-nineteenth century, both in Brazil and abroad. In this way, it shows how implicit notions in this broad context would have served as parameters for German Lorcas production of everyday scenes, within modern Brazilian photography.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T20:19:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Jose Joao Name.pdf: 43545230 bytes, checksum: 93f414005c68b2c4bc1d2e5f02c05515 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-12-06 / Street photography or urban photography, in terms of photographic style, historically results not only from a new instrumentalization made available by technological progress in the first half of the XIXth century, but also, and above all, from social and psychological conditions which started to reign in that period. This new way of representing the objective world brought innovative particularities like the combination of elements such as mental image, double, objective traces and aura in one perception object: photography. Such particularities are found in the concept of photogeny, one of the denominations given to the charm of photographic images, which is examined here based on Edgar Morin s studies. The analysis of the concept of photogeny leads us, in search of precursors, to the idea of aura in Walter Benjamin s writings, showing intersections which are particularly interesting and elucidative of both concepts. In Walter Benjamin s reflections are included phenomena such as crowd, shock and flâneur upon which are based our own reflections on the conditions which caused changes in the perception, receptiveness and response of the growing stimuli resulting from new ways of coexistence and mobility in the metropolis. Another approach related to the charm, the aura and the temporality of the photography, such as the temporal punctum, is integrated into these previous concepts and analyzed with the concept of photogeny. Thus, the purpose of this dissertation is the constitution of a more embracing corpus enabling the understanding of the complexity of the photographic phenomenon. The metropolis, object of the urban photographer, through its physiognomy, plays a major role in this dissertation, showing itself, like on a photograph, as a psychophysical mechanism whose charm dwells in the indistinguishable relation between the objective world and the imaginary / A fotografia de rua ou fotografia urbana, enquanto estilo fotográfico, decorre historicamente não apenas de uma nova instrumentalização proporcionada pelos avanços tecnológicos que se iniciaram na primeira metade do século XIX, mas, sobretudo, das condições sociais que vigoraram a partir desse período. Esse novo meio de representação do mundo objetivo trouxe consigo particularidades inovadoras, como a combinação de imagem mental, duplo, vestígios e aura em um objeto de percepção: a fotografia. Essas particularidades encontram uma confluência no conceito de fotogenia, uma das denominações atribuídas ao encanto das imagens fotográficas, que, aqui, é trabalhado tomando por base a trabalho de Edgar Morin. A análise do conceito de fotogenia remete-nos, na busca por precursores, à noção de aura em Walter Benjamin e apresenta interseções particularmente interessantes e elucidativas para ambos os conceitos. Nas reflexões deste último autor, que incluem os fenômenos da multidão, do choque, do flâneur, baseiam-se nossas análises sobre as condições que provocaram alterações na percepção, receptividade e resposta aos estímulos crescentes originados pelas novas formas de convivência e mobilidade na metrópole. Outra abordagem relacionada ao encanto, a aura e a temporalidade na fotografia, como o punctum temporal, é integrada às concepções anteriores e analisada em conjunto com a concepção de fotogenia. Dessa forma, o objetivo desta dissertação é constituir um corpus mais abrangente que dê conta da complexidade do fenômeno fotográfico. A metrópole, objeto do fotógrafo urbano, através da sua fisionomia e fisiognomia, ocupa um papel central nesta dissertação, revelando-se, como em uma fotografia, um mecanismo psicofísico, cujo encanto possui a sua base na relação indistinguível entre o mundo objetivo e o imaginário

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T14:52:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Jose Joao Name.pdf: 43545230 bytes, checksum: 93f414005c68b2c4bc1d2e5f02c05515 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-12-06 / Street photography or urban photography, in terms of photographic style, historically results not only from a new instrumentalization made available by technological progress in the first half of the XIXth century, but also, and above all, from social and psychological conditions which started to reign in that period. This new way of representing the objective world brought innovative particularities like the combination of elements such as mental image, double, objective traces and aura in one perception object: photography. Such particularities are found in the concept of photogeny, one of the denominations given to the charm of photographic images, which is examined here based on Edgar Morin s studies. The analysis of the concept of photogeny leads us, in search of precursors, to the idea of aura in Walter Benjamin s writings, showing intersections which are particularly interesting and elucidative of both concepts. In Walter Benjamin s reflections are included phenomena such as crowd, shock and flâneur upon which are based our own reflections on the conditions which caused changes in the perception, receptiveness and response of the growing stimuli resulting from new ways of coexistence and mobility in the metropolis. Another approach related to the charm, the aura and the temporality of the photography, such as the temporal punctum, is integrated into these previous concepts and analyzed with the concept of photogeny. Thus, the purpose of this dissertation is the constitution of a more embracing corpus enabling the understanding of the complexity of the photographic phenomenon. The metropolis, object of the urban photographer, through its physiognomy, plays a major role in this dissertation, showing itself, like on a photograph, as a psychophysical mechanism whose charm dwells in the indistinguishable relation between the objective world and the imaginary / A fotografia de rua ou fotografia urbana, enquanto estilo fotográfico, decorre historicamente não apenas de uma nova instrumentalização proporcionada pelos avanços tecnológicos que se iniciaram na primeira metade do século XIX, mas, sobretudo, das condições sociais que vigoraram a partir desse período. Esse novo meio de representação do mundo objetivo trouxe consigo particularidades inovadoras, como a combinação de imagem mental, duplo, vestígios e aura em um objeto de percepção: a fotografia. Essas particularidades encontram uma confluência no conceito de fotogenia, uma das denominações atribuídas ao encanto das imagens fotográficas, que, aqui, é trabalhado tomando por base a trabalho de Edgar Morin. A análise do conceito de fotogenia remete-nos, na busca por precursores, à noção de aura em Walter Benjamin e apresenta interseções particularmente interessantes e elucidativas para ambos os conceitos. Nas reflexões deste último autor, que incluem os fenômenos da multidão, do choque, do flâneur, baseiam-se nossas análises sobre as condições que provocaram alterações na percepção, receptividade e resposta aos estímulos crescentes originados pelas novas formas de convivência e mobilidade na metrópole. Outra abordagem relacionada ao encanto, a aura e a temporalidade na fotografia, como o punctum temporal, é integrada às concepções anteriores e analisada em conjunto com a concepção de fotogenia. Dessa forma, o objetivo desta dissertação é constituir um corpus mais abrangente que dê conta da complexidade do fenômeno fotográfico. A metrópole, objeto do fotógrafo urbano, através da sua fisionomia e fisiognomia, ocupa um papel central nesta dissertação, revelando-se, como em uma fotografia, um mecanismo psicofísico, cujo encanto possui a sua base na relação indistinguível entre o mundo objetivo e o imaginário

A dissertação (\"Em Flagrante - leitura de fotografias de rua do cotidiano da cidade de São Paulo nas duas primeiras décadas do século XX\" tem por fio condutor a história cultural ao lidar com a representação fotográfica. O objetivo da pesquisa realizada e o de apresentar dois pontos de vista diferenciados do comportamento do homem urbano na cidade de São Paulo antiga. Essas visões cunham o memento da modernidade da fotografia, gerada pelo flagrante ou instantâneo, que e um dos impulsos para o surgimento da cultura de massa estruturada no universo dos textos visuais. O enfoque central parte da leitura de dois olhares contrastantes de uma mesma cidade: a fotografia aplicada nas revistas A Vida Moderna e A Cigarra e o trabalho autoral do fotógrafo italiano Vincenzo Pastore. As interpretações imagéticas permitem uma reflexão sobre a questão da formação cultural da identidade brasileira no primeiro quarto do século XX. / The dissertation (Snapshots- street photographs of everyday So Paulo, during the first two decades of the twentieth century\", takes cultural history as a conducting wire, while dealing with photographic representation. The objective of the study is to present two distinct points of view of the urban man on the São Paulo streets of old. These images enhance the moment of modern photography, brought about by the snapshot, as being one of the drives for the emergence of visually based mass culture. The main focus arises in observing two contrasting photographic documentation of the same city: those of the photographs employed in the magazines A Vida Moderna (Modern Life) and A Cigarra (The Cricket) and those of the Italian photographic artist Vincenzo Pastore. The interpretations of the pictures allow for an analysis of the roots of Brazil\'s cultural identity in the first quarter of the twentieth century.