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Henning, Michelle 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3798-7227
(2018)
Holes: colonialism and negative space in modernist photography.
Wrong Wrong (12).
Abstract
This paper takes as its starting point ideas about documentary which have emerged in contemporary art photography, as one context for reconsidering an earlier moment in photography. In particular I am concerned with the idea of «holes» as a strategy in documentary and in fashion photography. I look at early travel photographs taken by American fashion photographer Louise Dahl-Wolfe in the 1920s in the context of her Modernist interest in negative space. This interest had a very particular effect on the representation of colonial space and colonial subjects, and needs to be understood in relation to a modern, Western and feminine experience of travel.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keywords: | negative space, photography, fashion photography, history of photography, colonialism, the gaze, modernism |
| Subjects: | Media > Media history and theory Media > Photography Arts |
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| Date Deposited: | 02 Apr 2018 |
| Dates: | Date Publication status 21 March 2018 Published 27 February 2018 Accepted |
| School, department or research centre: | London School of Film, Media and Design |
| Keywords: | negative space, photography, fashion photography, history of photography, colonialism, the gaze, modernism |
| URI: | https://repository.uwl.ac.uk/id/eprint/4780 |
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