Curated by Abodid Sahoo
Research papersI keep coming back to.
Written by their respective authors, not by me. Collected here for their connections to autoethnography, photography, grief, memory and human emotions.
The reading shelf
Art
Focuses on the photographic autopathographies produced by artists Hannah Wilke and Jo Spence, examining their use of self-representation to document and explore illness and the body.
Explores the relationship between photography and memory, specifically focusing on "The Representation of the Unrepresentable in Gustavo Germano’s Absences."
Examines the photographic series *House and Space2* by Francesca Woodman, focusing on her spectral, semi-absent presence in unhomely locations. It uses Bracha L. Ettinger's matrixial theory to challenge the non-affirmative understanding of her self-portraits as works of disappearing subjectivity.
A PhD thesis that considers what a "queering of photography" entails, proposing a new concept of the photographic image that addresses its materiality and generative principle. It aims to overturn the binary-rooted logic (e.g., truth/falsehood, copy/original) that underpins dominant photography discourse.