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“What are you Taking a Picture of?”: Constructivist Psychology and the Photographic Image

Photographic creation involves an interaction between the viewer and the image, combining perception and personal construction, rather than a representation of something already existing.

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Impacts of Modernisation on the Physiognomy of the Iranian Capital

A photographic history of Tehran from the nineteenth century to the present time is presented with emphasis on the ramifications of modernisation within the urban realm.

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Photography the Dominant Aesthetic

This paper examines the visual and its aesthetic primacy, whether art or not, combined with the shock and awe of technology, especially, notions of photography as a compelling, dominant aesthetic.

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Another Lost Angel: The Visual Genius of Jim Morrison

I argue that the key to making sense of Jim Morrison is to stop trying to document his life and to focus on our cultural responses to the Morrison story.

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Images, Words, and ‘Healing’: An Experimental Course

Reports on an experimental course in which students constructed ten visual and verbal projects for purposes of exploring and 'healing' a personal trauma, such as death, anxiety, or fear.

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Illusion and the Referential Dilemma in Alfonso Parigi’s Engravings for the Court Opera, La Flora (1628)

An argument is forwarded that Parigi’s stage designs for La Flora played a major role.

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Building as Sign: Architecture in the Image Economy

An examination of the subsumation of traditional architectural orders by the proliferation of the image in a branded and globalised urban condition.

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The Photograph as Gendered Arbiter of Truth in Contemporary Detective Films

Research on recent films indicates that male and female detectives use and understand photographs quite differently in pursuit of the truth and meaning.

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The Historical Image: Film, Productivity and the Politics of the Now

The paper examines the politics of historical investigation through still images and its relation to contemporary filmic representations of migrants in Imbert's No Pasarán, Album Souvenir.

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Architectural Exploration of Art Concepts

Exploration of the interplay of methods and techniques generally accepted as belonging to either the pictorial arts or architecture.

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