Ever since the foundation of the online video platform YouTube in 2006 and the online social media platforms Facebook (2004) and Twitter (2006), the mass spreading of the animal rights...Show moreEver since the foundation of the online video platform YouTube in 2006 and the online social media platforms Facebook (2004) and Twitter (2006), the mass spreading of the animal rights organisations’ undercover footage over the Internet has caused a lot of controversy and has resulted in for example the dismissal of certain animal products by major companies under the pressure of the media. Evidently, these photographs and videos do affect people. This observation was the starting point of my research and lead me to the main research question: Which characteristics of the media photography and film are exploited in three approaches to footage shot in factory farms by undercover investigators of animal rights organisations?Show less
My interest in the field of work which I will be discussing in this thesis has also been very important in my own photographic work. Before I had even been reading about phototherapy, I was using...Show moreMy interest in the field of work which I will be discussing in this thesis has also been very important in my own photographic work. Before I had even been reading about phototherapy, I was using my own photographs in this kind of context. For me personally photography has been helpful in order to cope with the challenges that I have faced moving between countries for the last ten years. Thus, I began to be more intrigued in actual phototherapy and therapeutic photography. Since it seemed that there was some confusion over the terms I wanted my thesis to draw a distinction between these two. What came to be even more important in the end was to reveal how phototherapy was developed. In order to find the answer, I began to explore the 19th century paintings and medical drawings in the hope that they could reveal some connections to phototherapy. From there I explored how photography came to be invented and how its therapeutic potential came to be discovered within psychiatry. Here the influence of psychoanalysis had to be taken into account as well as the rise of feminism in 1960s-1970s. Thus chapter one is devoted to the question of how phototherapy was developed and what came to influence this development. In order to understand better the therapeutic value of photographs, I will also look at how ordinary people have used photographs in a therapeutic way which is the main focus of chapter two. Post-mortem photography will be discussed in this context as a practice which brought comfort to people who were grieving over the death of a loved one. I am also intrigued in analysing what kind of role Kodak, the company that created snapshot photography played in the construction of ideas of how people should use their cameras and how they should represent themselves. This will lead into a discussion of feminist subversion and Jo Spence who could be considered as one of the pioneers of phototherapy or more preciously re-enactment phototherapy. Analysing the therapeutic use of photographs amongst ordinary people will also add more understanding of the actual development of phototherapy which is my main focus in this thesis. The last chapter is devoted to the question of how photography has been used in a therapeutic way in arts. The American photographer Nan Goldin is my key artist here as she has found photography’s power as a medium to visually explore her own identity as well as that of others. I will be looking at her work in comparison to paintings created by Vincent Van Gogh, Frida Kahlo and Egon Schiele, much in a similar way as I was trying to find the traces of phototherapy in the 19th century paintings. In this context mirrors will also be discussed in relation to Lacan and Jung as part of explaining the human need for the search of wholeness within themselves. Furthermore I am intrigued in finding out whether Goldin has used photography only for her own personal healing or has it been also aimed to help others? Through this I will hopefully be able to find connections between her practice and that of Jo Spence’s. After carrying out this research, I am able to answer the question of how phototherapy came to develop and how the therapeutic value of photographs have been cherished previously by its different practitioners.Show less
Onderzoek naar de wisselwerking tussen film en kunst, in het bijzonder tussen de film Vertigo (1958) van Alfred Hitchcock en de multimedia-installatie Judy's Bedroom (1992) van de Amerikaanse...Show moreOnderzoek naar de wisselwerking tussen film en kunst, in het bijzonder tussen de film Vertigo (1958) van Alfred Hitchcock en de multimedia-installatie Judy's Bedroom (1992) van de Amerikaanse kunstenaar David Reed (1946).Show less
In dit werkstuk wordt uit boeken opgebouwde kunst vergeleken met andere vormen van kunst waarbij het materiaal een geschiedenis als een zelfstandig medium heeft. Eerst zal de juiste terminologie...Show moreIn dit werkstuk wordt uit boeken opgebouwde kunst vergeleken met andere vormen van kunst waarbij het materiaal een geschiedenis als een zelfstandig medium heeft. Eerst zal de juiste terminologie worden vastgesteld, daarna worden de onderzoeksobjecten (Wentworths False Ceiling, Lehmanns The Scribe's house en Dettmers Tower 1 (Britannica) vergeleken met collagekunst en daarna met assemblage art en appropriation art, aan de hand van de vraag "hoe verhouden deze vormen van kunst zich tot elkaar en wat leert ons dit over de boekkunst?"Show less
