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    Performing for the camera

    Baker, Simon, Performing for the camera, Tate Publishing, London 2016 Abstract The book examines three distinct strands of photographic practice: the documentation of performance works, by artists such as Yves Klein, Yayoi Kusama and Merce Cunningham; how performers and photographers have worked collaboratively, such as Nadar and the mime artist Charles Deburau, or Eikoh Hosoe and the choreographer Tatsumi Hijikata; and the work of photographers who have a strong performative element to their practice, such as Charles Ray, Boris Mikhailov and Erwin Wurm. It further explores the construction of self-identity in the work of artists such as Samuel Fosso, Lee Friedlander, Tomoko Sawada, Cindy Sherman and Andy Warhol, as well…

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    Reactivations: Essays on Performance and Its Documentation

    Auslander, Philip, Reactivations: Essays on Performance and Its Documentation, University of Michigan Press, 2018 Abstract Most people agree that witnessing a live performance is not the same as seeing it on screen; however, most of the performances we experience are in recorded forms. Some aver that the recorded form of a performance necessarily distorts it or betrays it, focusing on the relationship between the original event and its recorded versions. By contrast, Reactivations focuses on how the audience experiences the performance, as opposed to its documentation. How does a spectator access and experience a performance from its documentation? What is the value of performance documentation? The book treats performance documentation…

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    Morte e Espectralidade nas Artes e na Literatura

    Bértolo, José; Guerreiro, Fernando, Morte e Espectralidade nas Artes e na Literatura, Húmus, 2019 Abstract Morte e Espectralidade nas Artes e na Literatura reúne um conjunto de ensaios nos quais se reflecte sobre as problemáticas da espectralidade e da morte nos campos da produção e da teorização das artes. Na primeira parte, procede-se à questionação e à análise de algumas configurações que o tópico da morte conheceu na literatura, na fotografia, no cinema, na literatura e nas artes de palco no decorrer dos últimos dois séculos. Num segundo momento, trata-se a espectralidade enquanto problema inerente à fotografia e ao pensamento crítico em torno desta arte, interrogando diversos pressupostos da representação…

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    Theater & dance photographs

    Jacobi, Lotte, Theater & dance photographs, Countryman Press, Woodstock, Vt 1982 Abstract From publisher’s jacket flap: “Berlin was a magic place for the arts in the twenties and early thirties, and no more so than in theater and dance. Fortunately for us, in the midst of this brilliant world, a young woman destined to become one of the best portrait photographers was just beginning her long illustrious career. Fourth generation photographer (her great grandfather had been taught by Daguerre), Lotte Jacobi photographed the brightest personalities of Berlin (and later New York), many of them her friends, in a direct and honest way that remains surprisingly fresh even today. In this…

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