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The Subject As Object: Photography and the Human Body – Michelle Henning (2000)

Posted in Photography Theory, tagged , , , , , , , , , on December 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »

After finding aspects of Stuart Hall’s text difficult to grasp in parts I turned to a chapter from Photography: A Critical Introduction (edited by Liz Wells) to try and get a better handle on the relevance of psyschoanalytic theory to photography criticism. It explains Freud’s take on voyeurism and fetishism clearly and concisely. Representations of [...]

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Stereotyping As A Signifying Practice – Stuart Hall (1997)

Posted in Photography Theory, tagged , , , , , , on December 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »

This entry discusses an extract from the book Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices. In it, Stuart Hall examines stereotyping and how this practice is employed to construct negative representations of people and groups. We routinely make sense of the world using types – broad categories of things with common characteristics. This allows us to [...]

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