• Stage Photography

    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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    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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    La photographie au théâtre, XIXe-XXIe siècles

    Joinnault, Brigitte, La photographie au théâtre, XIXe-XXIe siècles, Presses universitaires du Septentrion, Villeneuve d’Ascq 2021 Abstract La Photographie au théâtre proves that theatrical aesthetics have never ceased, for nearly 150 years, to be deeply influenced by the very existence of the photographic media, with its apparatus, its production processes, the flow of its images, its uses and techniques.,La Photographie au théâtre montre que les esthétiques et les imaginaires théâtraux ne cessent, depuis près de cent cinquante ans, d’être profondément travaillés par la photographie, avec ses techniques, ses appareils, ses processus de production, ses images, leurs usages et leurs circulations. Au fil de réflexions théoriques, d’analyses d’archives du dix-neuvième et de…

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    Still Shakespeare and the Photography of Performance

    Barnden, Sally, Still Shakespeare and the Photography of Performance, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2019 Abstract Still Shakespeare and the Photography of Performance examines the place of photography in the reception of the Shakespeare canon since the invention of the camera, looking at how photographic images have shaped perceptions of historicity, performance, and Shakespearean character, and how their dissemination has affected Shakespearean authority. Barnden reveals how photography has conditioned the reception of Shakespeare’s works in two key ways. Firstly, as a form of performance documentation, photographs shape the way individual performances are remembered and their positioning in relation to traditional and iconoclastic interpretations of the text. Secondly, photographs are vehicles of Shakespearean…

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  • Stage Photography

    Elisabete Mileu: performances 1981-82

    Barbosa, Manoel, Elisabete Mileu: performances 1981-82, Symposium International d’Art Performance de Lyon (5th : 1983), 1983 Abstract Exhibiton catalogue realised for the Symposium International d’Art Performance de Lyon (5th : 1983) Other data Number of pages: 8 ISBN: ISSN: DOI: URL: https://www.si.edu/object/siris_sil_722697 Language: EN key: LYIZZECI

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  • Stage Photography

    Histories of Performance Documentation : Museum, Artistic, and Scholarly Practices

    Giannachi, Gabriella; Westerman, Jonah; Westerman, Jonah, Histories of Performance Documentation : Museum, Artistic, and Scholarly Practices, Routledge, 2017 Abstract Histories of Performance Documentation traces the many ways in which museums have approached performance works from the 1960s onwards, considering the unique challenges of documenting live events. From hybrid and interactive arts, to games and virtual and mixed reality performance, this collection investigates the burgeoning role of the performative in museum displays. Gabriella Giannachi and Jonah Westerman bring together interviews and essays by leading curators, conservators, artists and scholars from institutions including MoMA, Tate, SFMOMA and the Whitney, to examine a range of interdisciplinary practices that have influenced the field of…

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    Theatre & photography

    Anderson, Joel, Theatre & photography, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke 2015 Abstract Examining the relationship between theatre and photography, this book shows how the two intertwine and provide vantage points for understanding each other. Joel Anderson explores the theory and practice of photographing theatre and performance, as well as theatre and photography’s mutual preoccupation with posing, staging, framing, and stillness. Table of contents Series Editors’ Preface Introduction 1. An Unknown Street Performer: theatre of photography 2. Photography Onstage 3. Theatre Photography 4. Brecht’s Photography and Theatre Conclusion Further Reading Index Other data Number of pages: 102 ISBN: 978-0-230-27671-0 ISSN: DOI: URL: Language: English key: 9PZKHYRW

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