This thesis explores the application of corporeally bereft urban landscapes in the medium of photography. In my case study, I examine Mauricio Lima's photographs as he retraces Eugéne Atget's steps...Show moreThis thesis explores the application of corporeally bereft urban landscapes in the medium of photography. In my case study, I examine Mauricio Lima's photographs as he retraces Eugéne Atget's steps in Paris during the height of the COVID pandemic of 2020. I aim to provide insights into the multiple roles and meanings that “empty places” can take on and connote. To elucidate, I engage with concepts such as the decontextualized place, Benjamin's notion of the Optical Unconscious, rephotography, and appropriation. Additionally, I question the use, shifts, and possible expanded meaning gained through the combination of images with text.Show less
This thesis researches a number of key conceptualisations of photography that lead the photographic discourse. One of its leading threads runs via two domains which supposedly stand in opposition...Show moreThis thesis researches a number of key conceptualisations of photography that lead the photographic discourse. One of its leading threads runs via two domains which supposedly stand in opposition to one another: the aesthetic domain of the photograph has hampered its socio-political manifestation. A photograph identified as a work of art is at disadvantage of finding recognition for its social or political value since quality is measured first and foremost by means of aesthetic parameters. In Ariella Azoulay's theoretical work on photography lies a means of bridging photography’s aesthetic dimension to its socio-political nature. Using the concept of sensus communis as a tool for understanding Azoulay's conceptions, this thesis looks into the transitioning understanding of photography’s socio-political nature in relation to its aesthetic nature that evolved during the historical course of photographic theory.Show less
Een voorbeschouwing van de machtstrijd tussen Ambassadeur in Cuba Benjamin Sumner Welles en Cordell Hull in 1933 wanneer Welles op het eiland is om toe te zien op een machtsoverdracht
In zijn werk 'The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere' beschrijft Jürgen Habermas hoe er in de 18de en 19de eeuw een bourgeois publieke sfeer ontstond in Duitsland, Frankrijk en Groot...Show moreIn zijn werk 'The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere' beschrijft Jürgen Habermas hoe er in de 18de en 19de eeuw een bourgeois publieke sfeer ontstond in Duitsland, Frankrijk en Groot-Brittannië. In deze scriptie wordt, aan de hand van Benjamin Franklin, gekeken of in Brits koloniaal Amerika deze sfeer ook voet aan de grond kreeg.Show less
