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(Dis)location, Diaspora, and the Camera Image: Zarina Bhimji in the 1980s

Description:
My thesis takes up Zarina Bhimji’s untitled series of ten large-format Polaroid photographs taken in 1989 at the Victoria and Albert Museum. While Bhimji is …
Year:
2024
Contributor:
Xiao, Grace (creator)
Shaffer, Holly (thesis advisor)
Caplan, Lindsay (reader)
Brown University. History of Art and Architecture (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Postcolonialism
Third World
African diaspora
Feminism
Contemporary art
Photography
South Asian diaspora
Bhimji, Zarina, 1963-
Victoria and Albert Museum
Art, British
Polaroid
Black Arts movement
Language:
English
Collection:
History of Art and Architecture
Theses and Dissertations
Full Record

A Photograph of Paulo Bosisio

Year:
1963
Subject:
Bosísio, Paulo
Brazil. Exército
Armed Forces--General staff officers
Photography
Collection:
History
Opening the Archives: Documenting U.S.-Brazil Relations, 1960s-80s
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A Photograph of Paulo Bosisio

Year:
1963
Subject:
Bosísio, Paulo
Brazil. Exército
Armed Forces--General staff officers
Photography
Collection:
History
Opening the Archives: Documenting U.S.-Brazil Relations, 1960s-80s
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A Photograph of Paulo Bosisio

Year:
1964
Contributor:
United States. Department of Defense (Associated name)
Subject:
Defense
Bosísio, Paulo
Brazil. Exército
Armed Forces--General staff officers
Photography, Military
Photography
Collection:
History
Opening the Archives: Documenting U.S.-Brazil Relations, 1960s-80s
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All Eyes on Russia: Margaret Bourke-White's Early Soviet Photographs

Description:
In 1930, American photographer Margaret Bourke-White (1904–1971) traveled to the Soviet Union on her first trip abroad. Her auspicious visit occurred during a moment of …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Johnson, Josie Rose (creator)
Nickel, Douglas (Advisor)
Shaffer, Holly (Reader)
Sichel, Kim (Reader)
Brown University. Department of History of Art and Architecture (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Periodicals
United States
Photography
Russia
Photobooks
Soviet Union
interwar
Women artists
Photojournalism
Propaganda
Newspapers
Photomurals
Collection:
History of Art and Architecture
Theses and Dissertations
Full Record

An imaginary visual journey on the life and time of Fernando Pessoa in Durban

Description:
This project is a visual journey through the time of Fernando Pessoa in South Africa and aims at representing it in a visual way. This …
Year:
2021
Contributor:
Guercia, Gianluigi (author)
Genre:
documents
Subject:
Pessoa, Fernando > 1888-1935
Jennings, H. D. (Hubert Dudley) > 1896-1991
Indian Coast (South Africa)
Natal Bay (South Africa)
Durban (South Africa)
Photography
Visualization
Photography literature
Collection:
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
Journals@BDR
Pessoa Plural—A Journal of Fernando Pessoa Studies
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Astronomy: Cooperative effort of U..S.-Brazil institutions

Year:
1966
Contributor:
Raine, Philip (Authorizer)
Simonpietri, Andre C. (Drafter)
Subject:
Photography
Inter American Geodetic Survey
Scientific attaché
Yale University. Observatory
Brazil--Rio de Janeiro
Washington (D.C.)
Local ID:
SCI 1-1 BRAZ-US
Collection:
History
Opening the Archives: Documenting U.S.-Brazil Relations, 1960s-80s
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Becoming Walker Evans: Photography, Literature, and Transnational Modernism, 1926-1938

Description:
This project foregrounds the connections between American, European, and Latin American influences in American art history as signaled by the use of “transnational” in my …
Year:
2014
Contributor:
Oehlrich, Kristen (creator)
Nickel, Douglas (Director)
Trachtenberg, Alan (Reader)
Vanel, Herve (Reader)
Brown University. History of Art and Architecture (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Walker Evans
transatlantic avant-garde
photography and literature
American Modernism
the Museum of Modern Art
Eugène Atget
Hart Crane
Carleton Beals
William Faulkner
Diego Rivera
Edith Wharton
Berenice Abbott
Edward Hopper
Charles Burchfield
Muriel Draper
Transnationalism
Photography
Literature and photography
Great Depression
Vernacular architecture
Evans, Walker > 1903-1975
Atget, Eugène > 1857-1927
Crane, Hart > 1899-1932
Beals, Carleton > 1893-1979
Rivera, Diego > 1886-1957
Wharton, Edith > 1862-1937
Abbott, Berenice > 1898-1991
Hopper, Edward > 1882-1967
Burchfield, Charles > 1893-1967
Draper, Muriel > 1886-1952
Language:
English
Collection:
History of Art and Architecture
Theses and Dissertations
Full Record

BRIZUELA, Natália (2012). Fotografia e império: paisagens para um Brasil moderno. Trad. Marcos Bagno. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras; Instituto Moreira Sales.

Description:
BRIZUELA, Natália (2012). Fotografia e império: paisagens para um Brasil moderno. Trad. Marcos Bagno. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras; Instituto Moreira Sales, 211 p. ISBN: …
Year:
2014
Contributor:
Lotufo, Marcelo F. (author)
Genre:
reviews (documents)
Subject:
Photography
Modernism (Art) > Brazil
Collection:
Journals@BDR
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature
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Classrooms Abroad: Gender, race, education, and transnational social worlds between the U.S. and the Middle East

Description:
“Classrooms Abroad” examines the distinctive role of education in shaping relationships between Americans and the peoples of the (post-)Ottoman Middle East in the early part …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Wolfson, Elizabeth Kay (creator)
Azoulay, Ariella (Advisor)
Brummett, Palmira (Reader)
Lee, Robert (Reader)
Zipp, Samuel (Reader)
Brown University. Department of American Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Photography
International relations
Transnationalism
Turkey
U.S. Foreign Policy
Middle East
American Studies
Collection:
American Studies
Theses and Dissertations
Full Record

Confidential Photography for Secretary's Visit During Rio Conference

Year:
1965
Contributor:
Rusk (Author)
Genre:
telegrams
Subject:
Diplomatic Relations
State Secretary
Photography
Confidential communications
United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
SecState Washington D.C.
Collection:
History
Opening the Archives: Documenting U.S.-Brazil Relations, 1960s-80s
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Consciousness in the Manner of the Spaghetti Woman

Description:
A woman made of clay and spaghetti slowly dissolves in a warm bath; the speaker relates to desire, proprioception, and smartphones; a squirrel eats a …
Year:
2018
Contributor:
Wippermann, Emma (creator)
de la Torre, Mónica (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Literary Arts (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Queer theory
Photography
Experimental poetry
Smartphones
Proprioception
Collection:
Literary Arts
Theses and Dissertations
Full Record

Consuming Crises: Migrant Labor, Spectacle, and Precarity in the 20th Century

Description:
This dissertation focuses on crises of extractive capitalism as they relate to the migrant, laboring body. Roughly spanning the first three-quarters of the 20th century, …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Charlson, Doria Erin (creator)
Ybarra, Patricia (Advisor)
Schneider, Rebecca (Reader)
Johnson, Jasmine (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
performance
Air--Pollution
Photography
South Africa
Progressive Era
Dance
Spectacle
Migrant labor
20th century
California
Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939
square dance
Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire (1911)
New York (State)--New York--Coney Island
Disaster Spectacles
extractive capitalism
industrial capitalism
gold dust
Silicosis
fire
Collection:
Theatre Arts and Performance Studies
Theses and Dissertations
Full Record

Dark Trees: Regional Archives of Familial Intimacy, Lynching Violence, and Racial Reproduction in the U.S. South

Description:
Dark Trees: Regional Archives of Familial Intimacy, Lynching Violence, and Racial Reproduction is an archival, visual, and affective analysis of the extension of lynching aesthetics …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Thomas, Virginia (creator)
Schneider, Rebecca (Advisor)
Guterl, Matthew (Advisor)
Alvarado, Leticia (Reader)
Owens, Emily (Reader)
Weinstein, Deborah (Reader)
Brown University. Department of American Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Photography
Aesthetics
Southern States
Family violence
Lynching
Transgender theory
White Supremacy
Domesticity
Women, White
African Americans--Study and teaching
Environmental justice
Collection:
American Studies
Theses and Dissertations
Full Record

Disorientations: Theatricality and Contemporary Asian American Performance

Description:
This dissertation investigates how theatricality and performance enter into the scene of contemporary Asian American cultural production. I argue that Asian American artists and writers, …
Year:
2013
Contributor:
Mok, Christine Y (creator)
Ybarra, Patricia (Director)
Schneider, Rebecca (Reader)
Kim, Daniel (Reader)
Lim, Eng Beng (Reader)
Brown University. Theatre Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
theatricality
theatre
racial identity
representation
identity formation
Performance
Asian Americans
Theater
Photography
Dance
Literature
Language:
English
Collection:
Theatre Arts and Performance Studies
Theses and Dissertations
Full Record

Fenton, Ross to Mom, Ha 3 months and days!!

Description:
  • Digital object made available by : Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)
Year:
1968
Contributor:
Fenton, Ross W. (creator)
Genre:
letters (correspondence)
Subject:
United States > Army > Quartermaster Battalion, 64th
Photography
Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Collection:
Brown University Library
Vietnam Veterans Archive
Ross W. Fenton (Class of 1969) papers relating to the Vietnam War
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Fenton, Ross to parents Well this is about the third letter in a week that I started...

Description:
  • Digital object made available by : Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)
Year:
1968
Contributor:
Fenton, Ross W. (creator)
Genre:
audiotapes
letters (correspondence)
Subject:
United States > Army > Quartermaster Battalion, 64th
Fuel
Lubrication and lubricants
Petroleum
Photography
Race relations
Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > African Americans
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Social aspects
Collection:
Brown University Library
Vietnam Veterans Archive
Ross W. Fenton (Class of 1969) papers relating to the Vietnam War
Full Record

Fenton, Ross to parents, "Twas the night before x-mas"

Description:
  • Digital object made available by : Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)
Year:
1967
Contributor:
Fenton, Ross W. (creator)
Genre:
letters (correspondence)
Subject:
United States > Army > Pay, allowances, etc
Beer
Christmas
Hobbies
Laundry > Vietnam
Military postal service
Photography
Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Social aspects
Collection:
Brown University Library
Vietnam Veterans Archive
Ross W. Fenton (Class of 1969) papers relating to the Vietnam War
Full Record

Fenton, Ross to parents, Accompanying this are seven packets of pictures ...

Description:
Images on negatives are of Vietnam, and include Camp Red Ball and countryside, likely sent along with the letter. Fenton had several cameras and writes …
Year:
1968
Genre:
letters (correspondence)
Subject:
Fenton, Ross W.
United States > Army > Quartermaster Battalion, 64th
Camp Red Ball (Vietnam)
Japan
Japan > Description and travel
Photography
Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Social aspects
Vietnam > Description and travel
Collection:
Brown University Library
Vietnam Veterans Archive
Ross W. Fenton (Class of 1969) papers relating to the Vietnam War
Full Record

Fenton, Ross to parents, Just a quickie to send the pictures.

Description:
  • Digital object made available by : Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)
Year:
1968
Contributor:
Fenton, Ross W. (creator)
Genre:
letters (correspondence)
Subject:
United States > Army > Quartermaster Battalion, 64th
Photography
Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Collection:
Brown University Library
Vietnam Veterans Archive
Ross W. Fenton (Class of 1969) papers relating to the Vietnam War
Full Record

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