1. Show me the truth: the conditions of possibility for the invention of photography

Delmas, Didier,

The popularization of science during the eighteenth century generated, toward the end of the century, an epistemological anxiety that reached all levels of the population from the most literate scient...

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3. Knowing my place: learning through memory and photography

Allnutt, Susann,

This arts-informed inquiry uses auto-photography, rephotography, interviews, memory work and writing about the photograph as tools to draw out of the archive an understanding of the self-in-place. I f...

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5. City Gorged with Dreams: Surrealism and Documentary Photography in Interwar Paris

When the relationship between Surrealism and photography first became a subject of academic attention in the 1980s, the common view was that the core of Surrealist photography lay in staged and manipu...

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7. Colonial Photography Across Empires and Islands

Rice, Mark,

When the US acquired its colonies of Puerto Rico and the Philippines in the aftermath of the 1898 war with Spain, those colonies had to be made known to American citizens. Lanny Thompson has described...

http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/8fz4t188

9. Saisir la réalité de sa mort par l'écriture photographique: Étude des relations intermédiales entre la photographie et l'écriture dans "L'usage de la photo" et "Les années d'Annie Ernaux

Clouâtre, Mélanie,

This thesis focuses on the role of photography, and writing, as well as on on their intermedial exchanges in Annie Ernaux's L'usage de la photo and Les années. The underlying hypothesis is that Ernaux...

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