Search for dissertations about: "photography from the 1970s"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words photography from the 1970s.

2. 1. Impure vision : American staged art photography of the 1970s

   Author : Moa Goysdotter; Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; vision; phenomenology; postphenomenology; visuality; Lucas Samaras; Arthur Tress; Duane Michals; Les Krims; staged photography; art photography; history of photography; 20th century photography; photography from the 1970s; American photography;

   Abstract : The aim of this study is to explore how American staged art photographers in the 1970s problematized a traditional, visualist approach to the photograph as mediator or interface between human subject and reality, which had been present in the straight photography that had dominated American art photography from the early decades of the twentieth century. Instead of viewing the camera as an objective, optical device and photographs as mechanically reproducible artistic products, the proponents of the new "staged photography" seized the possibilities of conveying holistic life experiences by employing a full range of sensory impressions. READ MORE

4. 2. Temporal and spatial variability of carbon cycling in a subarctic landscape

   Author : Torbjörn Johansson; Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Geologi; physical geography; Geology; Växtekologi; Plant ecology; Permafrost; Herbivory; Subarctic; Aerial photography; Vegetation change; Carbon balance; fysisk geografi;

   Abstract : This thesis deals with the carbon balance in a subarctic landscape at different temporal and spatial scales. Its focus is mainly on the peatland and mountain birch forest (Betula pubescens ssp. czerepanovii) ecosystems within the Abisko area in northernmost Sweden. This is an area with a temperature close to the 0 OC mean annual isotherm. READ MORE