Schlagwort: Trauma
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Saraí Ojeda : Where your gaze can’t reach me
Between text and image, this photobook illustrates the complex history of three generations of women in the author’s life. The mother’s house, full of dolls and peculiar objects, becomes a space of fantasy and terror, serving as a metaphor of a complex and dramatic familial story that Ojeda approaches by oscillating between fiction and reality.
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David Lundmark : X60 – X84
After a close relative unexpectedly took his life, photographer David Lundmark decided to seek out others who had been affected by suicide – privately or through their professional roles. Partly because he wanted to process his own grief and try to understand what had happened, but also to break the media silence on suicide.
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Tsai Ting Bang : Born from the Same Root
Is it the illnesses that lead to the decay of life, or is it the decay of life that causes the illnesses? What are the forces and reasons behind pushing us, as brothers, into entirely different adult worlds? What is the emotional bond between brothers? Through photographing Hsien, I aim to try and understand these…
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Jill Bennett : Empathic Vision. Affect, Trauma and Contemporary Art
This book analyzes contemporary visual art produced in the context of conflict and trauma from a range of countries, including Colombia, Northern Ireland, South Africa, and Australia. It focuses on what makes visual language unique, arguing that the „affective“ quality of art contributes to a new understanding of the experience of trauma and loss.
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Ahndraya Parlato : Who is Changed and Who is Dead
In Who is Changed and Who is Dead, Ahndraya Parlato uses the life-changing events of her mother’s suicide and the birth of her children as the genesis for an expansive project exploring the contradictory and complex conditions of motherhood.
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Ulrich Baer : Spectral Evidence. The Photography of Trauma
In this remarkable contribution to photographic criticism and psychoanalytic literature, Ulrich Baer traces the hitherto overlooked connection between the experience of trauma and the photographic image.
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Margaret Iversen : Photography, Trace and Trauma
Just as a photograph registers things that to some extent bypass artistic intention and convention, so also the event that precipitates a trauma bypasses consciousness leaving an indexical trace on the psyche. Both involve the chance exposure to something which leaves an indelible impression.
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Frances Guerin, Roger Hallas (Hrsg.) : the image and the witness. Trauma, Memory and Visual Culture
It explores the role of the material image in bearing witness to historical events and the visual representation of witnesses to collective trauma.
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Tamás Bényei, Alexandra Stara (Hrsg.): The Edges of Trauma. Explorations in Visual Art and Literatur
A collection of essays by an international group of scholars, The Edges of Trauma: Explorations in Visual Art and Literature addresses the vast cultural and discursive construction that trauma has become in recent decades.
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Miki Hasagawa : Internal Notebook
The structure of the dummy reveals an eclectic use of notebook style and a very thorough research. The dummy deals with the emotional cries of children raised in abusive homes.
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Anna Maria Antoinette d’Addario : Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light
In Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light visual metaphors are beautifully woven together, addressing challenging concepts such as the silence and despair surrounding the tragic death of a beloved sibling, especially when compounded by the horror of murder and violation.
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Jessica Hines : My Brother’s War
My Brother’s War tells the story of a soldier, Gary Hines, and his younger sister’s search to understand the circumstances surrounding his life with Post Traumatic Stress – and his untimely death by his own hand ten years after returning home from war.