Pub Date : 2025-06-05eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1080/17540763.2025.2484392
Briony Carlin
Reconstrucción, 2016, by Rosana Simonassi (b.1974), is a materially complex photobook that critiques the media's fascination with fatal acts of violence against women, while destabilising the relation of photobook, reader and archive. Close analysis of a specific encounter with Reconstrucción in the National Art Library in 2018 foregrounds three aspects of the book - folds, death and dirt - which emphasise realities of its circulation and consumption. While Reconstrucción ostensibly comprises restaged scenes of femicide, its use of obstructing pages, unusual folds and unexpected spills of dirt deploys the material form of the photobook to generate a more reflexive, implicated readerly encounter with the spectacle of death. By situating the photobook in relation to the artist's wider practice, the article argues the photobook offers a new logic for presentation and dissemination that: expands the artwork's conceptual resonance; re-examines photography's relationship with death; disrupts notions of authorship and readership; and speaks broadly to issues of gendered violence. These insights also reveal tensions around how photobooks are accessed and encountered in institutional spaces, virtually through databases, and in reading rooms. The epistemological regime of the museum art library thus makes ontological understandings about this individual photobook and the historiography of the medium more generally.
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Pub Date : 2024-02-27DOI: 10.1080/17540763.2023.2269401
Paula Gortázar
{"title":"Plastic borders: on the photographic frame and its virtual experience","authors":"Paula Gortázar","doi":"10.1080/17540763.2023.2269401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17540763.2023.2269401","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39970,"journal":{"name":"Photographies","volume":"7 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140424539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-02-27DOI: 10.1080/17540763.2023.2288812
Yuxiang Dong
{"title":"FROM COLONIAL MODERNITY TO POSTSOCIALISM: CHENG XINHAO’S ENCOUNTERS ON THE KUNMING–HAIPHONG RAILWAY","authors":"Yuxiang Dong","doi":"10.1080/17540763.2023.2288812","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17540763.2023.2288812","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39970,"journal":{"name":"Photographies","volume":"35 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140425748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-02-27DOI: 10.1080/17540763.2023.2269424
Orla Fitzpatrick
{"title":"BORDERLANDS: STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY AND PRESS DEPICTIONS OF THE BORDER BETWEEN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND AND THE STATE OF NORTHERN IRELAND","authors":"Orla Fitzpatrick","doi":"10.1080/17540763.2023.2269424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17540763.2023.2269424","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39970,"journal":{"name":"Photographies","volume":"272 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140427930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-02-27DOI: 10.1080/17540763.2023.2269409
Catarina Fontoura
{"title":"WILD HOME: PHOTOGRAPHY, DOMESTICITY AND MORE-THAN-HUMAN BOUNDARIES IN FIELDWORK AND EXPEDITIONARY SCIENCE","authors":"Catarina Fontoura","doi":"10.1080/17540763.2023.2269409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17540763.2023.2269409","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39970,"journal":{"name":"Photographies","volume":"30 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140427202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-02-27DOI: 10.1080/17540763.2023.2272245
Sarah Bassnett
{"title":"TREVOR PAGLEN’S BORDER ABSTRACTIONS IN THE AGE OF MACHINE VISION","authors":"Sarah Bassnett","doi":"10.1080/17540763.2023.2272245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17540763.2023.2272245","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39970,"journal":{"name":"Photographies","volume":"31 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140427483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-02-27DOI: 10.1080/17540763.2023.2271687
Muriel Hasbun
{"title":"Pulsante deseo: Representing El Salvador Across Spatial and Temporal Boundaries","authors":"Muriel Hasbun","doi":"10.1080/17540763.2023.2271687","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17540763.2023.2271687","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39970,"journal":{"name":"Photographies","volume":"37 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140427510","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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