Dancing to the music of the till— John Goto’s Ukadia

Dancing to the music of the till— John Goto’s Ukadia explores the photographic montage work of Goto in relation to an analysis of contemporary cultures of consumption

Roy DeCarava: Selected Works

In this essay, Mark Durden reflects upon a selection of images of Roy DeCarava presented at an exhibition at David Zwirner gallery in London 13 years after his death. What is remarkable about DeCarava’s work is its multivalency, subtle and nuanced in response to the world around him, avoiding polemical or didactic stances. Aware of the documentary’s association with photographers who would picture Harlem from the outside, DeCarava declared: “I'm not a documentarian, I never have been. I think of myself as poetic, a maker of visions, dreams, and a few nightmares.”  In its poetic register, DeCarava’s images possess a symbolic resonance, with implications of segregation and separation, as playing a part in the metaphorical representation of the people captured on his images.&nbsp

The Comparative Method in religious studies

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The Idea of Álvaro Siza: Ocean Swimming Pool

a newspaper format publication by Scopio editions of photographs of Siza’s Ocean Swimming Pool comple

Photography and the book: from Fox Talbot to Christian Boltanski

Photography and the Book examines the use of photograph in differing books, from Fox Talbot's The Pencil of Nature to the photo-books of the contemporary French artist, Christian Boltanski. Spanning nearly 150 years of photography, from the first book with photographic plates to artist's books produced from the late 1960s to early 1990s, the choice of books develops a thematics of photography and truth. The thesis consists of two parts, the first looking at photography and the book in the nineteenth century, the second examining books in the twentieth century. My discussion of Talbot's The Pencil of Nature considers the status of this first book with photographic plates, and will be showing gow it reflects a self-reflexive fascination with photography. Chapter Two looks at the photo-books of Peter Henry Emerson, discussing his attempts to bring photography closer to the truth of a corporealised vision. Chapter three discusses photography as described in two nineteenth century novels, as a means of revealing truth of character in Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables and as a means of deception and misrepresentation in Thomas Hardy's A Laodicean. Chapter four looks at truth in books of science, focusing on the use of the composite photograph as a means of representing the essence of criminality. Part two begins with an analysis of James Agee's and Walker Evans's documentary book, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. It examines the problematics involved in representing poverty. Chapter six will consider the photo-texts of the American writer and photographer, Wright Morris. Here photography, particularly the amateur snapshot, is treated as a talismanic object and stands for a particular truth of experience. The following discussion of Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida will examine the role of photography in a book of theory, behind which lies a metaphysical attachment to the evidential force of certain photographs. An analysis of the artist's books of Christian Boltanski will bring the thesis to a close and up to date, as I examine the whole issue of truth and photography through such bookworks as Detective which mixes uncaptioned portraits of killers and their victims, a book of portraits which exposes photography's limited capacity to convey information about those depicts

THROWING VOICES: THE COMMODIFICATION OF CULTURE, FROM ART BIENNIALS TO CELEBRITY

Through their artistic practice, Common Culture redeploy the ‘throwing of voices’ to investigate the commodification of culture, from the art biennial to celebrity. This approach will be discussed via two specific artworks. The New El Dorado (2010) responded to the context of the art biennial, and in particular, Manifesta 8. Exploring the phenomena of cultural consumption, tourism and the tradition of the historical “Grand Tour”, the work narrates an encounter between the specific characteristics of a place and the culture of others. It responded to conventions in Biennial practices related to the local and the global, discussing inherent problems with current models of socially engaged practices. The work utilises a script written from an explicitly British context delivered through actors from the regions of Murcia and Valencia. The tensions that arise from this, and the analysis of cultural engagement within it, raise issues around the alienating process of speaking for others. Vent (2014) was formed around a convergence of the contexts of ventriloquism, from the disassociated voice, the political associations of throwing voices (or the mediation of the voice) and the mania of binary extremes within the psychological conditions of late capitalism. The deconstruction of the ventriloquist form is intended to allow a questioning of the broadcast and consumption of talent and celebrity confession shows as a cycle of consumption. The act of speaking through others is deployed via the deconstruction of the ventriloquist routine to discuss the power relationships between the produced commodities (television show, celebrity) and audience

Sylvatic infestation of Oklahoma reptiles with immature Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae)

Reptiles were collected in nine counties in Oklahoma from September 2002 to May 2004 and examined for Ixodes scapularis (Say) larvae and nymphs to determine seasonal incidence and prevalence of these ticks. In total, 209 reptile specimens consisting of nine species of lizards and seven species of snakes were collected. Plestiodon fasciatus (L.) was the most numerous species collected (55%) followed by Sceloporus undulatus (Latreille) (17%) and Scincella lateralis (Say) (11%). Less than 10 individuals were collected for all remaining reptile species. The infestation prevalence of I. scapularis on all reptile specimens collected was 14% for larvae and 25% for nymphs. Larvae were found on lizards from April until September and peaked in May, while nymphs were found from March until September and peaked in April. I. scapularis larvae (84%) and nymphs (73%) preferentially attached to the axillae/front leg of P. fasciatus. Two chigger species, Eutrombicula splendens (Ewing) and Eutrombicula cinnabaris (Ewing), were found on 2% of the reptiles collected. No ectoparasites, including ticks, were obtained from the seven species of snakes collected.Peer reviewedEntomology and Plant Patholog

Connecting Land–Atmosphere Interactions to Surface Heterogeneity in CHEESEHEAD19

The Chequamegon Heterogeneous Ecosystem Energy-Balance Study Enabled by a High-Density Extensive Array of Detectors 2019 (CHEESEHEAD19) is an ongoing National Science Foundation project based on an intensive field campaign that occurred from June to October 2019. The purpose of the study is to examine how the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) responds to spatial heterogeneity in surface energy fluxes. One of the main objectives is to test whether lack of energy balance closure measured by eddy covariance (EC) towers is related to mesoscale atmospheric processes. Finally, the project evaluates data-driven methods for scaling surface energy fluxes, with the aim to improve model–data comparison and integration. To address these questions, an extensive suite of ground, tower, profiling, and airborne instrumentation was deployed over a 10 km × 10 km domain of a heterogeneous forest ecosystem in the Chequamegon–Nicolet National Forest in northern Wisconsin, United States, centered on an existing 447-m tower that anchors an AmeriFlux/NOAA supersite (US-PFa/WLEF). The project deployed one of the world’s highest-density networks of above-canopy EC measurements of surface energy fluxes. This tower EC network was coupled with spatial measurements of EC fluxes from aircraft; maps of leaf and canopy properties derived from airborne spectroscopy, ground-based measurements of plant productivity, phenology, and physiology; and atmospheric profiles of wind, water vapor, and temperature using radar, sodar, lidar, microwave radiometers, infrared interferometers, and radiosondes. These observations are being used with large-eddy simulation and scaling experiments to better understand submesoscale processes and improve formulations of subgrid-scale processes in numerical weather and climate models