How Human Migration is represented in Photography?

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I would like to thank my supervisors, friends and family, without their support this research study would not have been possible.

DECLARATION

I adjudge that the entire content of this dissertation is entirely my own work; the content used in this dissertation has not been submitted before in any educational institution and represents my own opinion.

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ABSTRACT

In this research study, the aim was to find out is how different photographers perceive and express their understanding of the word 'migration'. In this research study, the qualitative secondary research study was used. After analyzing and discussion, it can be concluded that role of globalization in photography is over all positive and the human migration is being portrayed by the photographers in different aspects. One aspect showed by the Marzena Wasikowska that she migrated faced hard times but in the end every thing settled down. The other aspect showed by Sebastiao Salgado, the miseries of migrations.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTII

DECLARATIONIII

ABSTRACTIV

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION1

Background of the Research1

Photography1

Rational of the study3

Research Questions4

Research aims and objectives4

Aims4

Objectives4

CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW5

Diaspora5

Photographic memory and identity7

Human Nostalgia and photographers7

Memory eraser negative events8

CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY9

Research design9

Secondary Research Methods9

Qualitative Research Method9

Instrument10

Data Analysis10

Secondary data analysis11

Literature Search11

Keywords Used11

CHAPTER 4: ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION12

Introduction12

Analysis of the Interview Responses12

How globalization effect photography?12

What is the reason behind doing migration photography?12

Secondary Research Findings13

Globalization and photography13

Digital photography13

Camera and camera systems13

Digital camera backs14

Lenses14

Digital Images and Noise15

Photographer and Their Work18

Sebastiao Slagado work18

Andre Penteado's project21

MArzena Wasikowska project22

CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSION24

REFERENCES26

BIBLIOGRAPHY28

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

Background of the Research

Photography

The most powerful, and perhaps primary, discourse articulated to photography is a belief in the truth-value of the photographic image, credibility. Thus, examining its historical, philosophical roots and practical use will tell us how photography comes to be strongly connected to credibility (Bayer, 1977, 220).

When photography technology was invented in 1839, photography itself was claimed to be a discovery of a natural process, without human intervention. Baskin, Craig, Aronoff, (1992, 45), one of the inventors of photography, put it: The Daguerreotype' is not merely an instrument which serves to draw nature; on the contrary it is a chemical and physical process which gives her the power to reproduce herself. He argued that the photographic image consists in the spontaneous reproduction of the images of nature and that “the imprint of nature would reproduce itself. Barth, (1995, 75) the other major inventor of photography also defined his accomplishment (actually heliography') as automatic reproduction, by the action of light. The exclusion of human intervention in the whole photographic process was stressed in the early discourse of photography. Both the term 'heliography' and Fox Talbot's 'pencil of nature' implicitly dismissed the human operator and argued for the direct agency of the sun. Arnheim (1993, 537) also admired the magical accuracy of the photographic image, when he said; the closest scrutiny of the photographic drawing discloses only a more absolute truth. A more perfect identity of aspect with the thing represented. The objective character of the photographic image however, has since the 1960s undergone a ...