Bassnett
Biographic Data
| ID | 20714 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bassnett |
| FAMILY NAME | Bassnett |
| SIGNATURE | BASSNETT |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6632-8450 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Trevor Paglen’s Border Abstractions in the Age of Machine Vision
Over the past two decades, machine vision and artificial intelligence (AI) have become integrated into many aspects of daily life, and with machines generating images for other machines, humans are no longer at the centre of the image world. To explore the implications of the age of machine vision, this article focuses on a selection of work by American artist Trevor Paglen made between 2008 and 2018. It examines the significance of the US-Mexico…
Rescue Politics: Richard Mosse’s Thermal Imaging and the Containment of Migration
This article focuses on a body of work by Mosse that includes the multichannel video installation Incoming, shown as a 52:12 minute three-channel video installation with 7.3 surround sound, and the photographic series Heat Maps (2015–2017) (Fig. 1). While Incoming concentrates on migration routes, Heat Maps portrays the architecture of refugee camps.4 I consider how the artist’s use of thermal imaging and his immersive mode of documentary complic…
Retrieving images from tarnished daguerreotypes using X-ray fluorescence imaging with an X-ray micro beam with tunable energy
We report recent observations using a synchrotron X-ray micro-beam to retrieve images from tarnished 19th century daguerreotypes. We confirm that high quality image can always be retrieved from tarnished plates using Hg Lα XRF as long as the bulk of the image particles and their distribution remains intact. We also report results from using tunable tender X-rays (2 - 7 keV) to conduct imaging in high vacuum at energy above the Ag L-edge and the H…
Family, Diaspora, and the Politics of Care in Griselda San Martin’s The Wall , 2015-16
This article examines a series of photographs by Griselda San Martin, a Spanish journalist and documentary photographer based in New York City and Mexico City. The series focuses on the experiences of people at Friendship Park, a bi-national park located in the border region of San Diego, United States, and Tijuana, Mexico. Working in Tijuana, San Martin engaged with families as they attempted to connect with loved ones across the border in San D…
Migratory Technology: Piracy and Bazaar Culture in India and Nepal
This interview between film and media scholar Ishita Tiwary and art historian Sarah Bassnett was conducted over Zoom in February 2023. It focuses on Tiwary's research on the migration of photographic and media technologies from China to India and Nepal in the period from the 1980s to the present. The discussion concentrates on how piracy and the illicit trade in goods such as cameras and mobile phones has shaped border cultures and access to cons…
Photography and 21st-Century Migration
Life Magazine in Africa and the Ideology of Modernization
Life was a popular news magazine that used photography to influence the way millions of Americans perceived geopolitical events during the Cold War. Combining information and entertainment in new ways, it reassured its predominantly white, middle-class readership of their privileged place within a volatile world. This article considers how the ideology of modernization informed the magazine's coverage of Africa. Prevalent from the late 1940 s to …
Cold War visual alliances
Archive and Affect in Contemporary Photography
This article concentrates on two contemporary photographers, Greg Staats and Arnaud Maggs, whose work generates an affective response by engaging in an archival practice. Drawing on Jill Bennett's analysis of affect in contemporary art, including her discussion of the way work can be transactive, Bassnett considers how the work of these artists addresses viewers, and how different archival practices unsettle conventional viewing relationships. In…
From Public Relations to Art: Exhibiting Frances Benjamin Johnston's Hampton Institute Photographs
This article examines the circulation of a series of photographs taken by Frances Benjamin Johnston at the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Hampton, Virginia, in 1899. It looks first at their display in the context of the American Negro Exhibit at the Paris Exposition of 1900; second, it considers an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1966; and third, it discusses an exhibit at the Williams College Museum of Art in 20…
Photography and Corporate Culture
Picturing filth and disorder: Photography and urban governance in Toronto
In July of 1911, just nine months after his appointment to the post of Medical Health Officer for the City of Toronto, Dr Charles Hastings issued a report on an investigation of slum conditions in the city. 1 Hastings, a fifty-two year old obstetrician, was appointed Medical Health Officer in October of 1910. His predecessor, Dr Charles Sheard, left the post shortly after a typhoid epidemic erupted in February of 1910. The investigation found tha…
Archive and Affect in Contemporary Photography
This article concentrates on two contemporary photographers, Greg Staats and Arnaud Maggs, whose work generates an affective response by engaging in an archival practice. Drawing on Jill Bennett's analysis of affect in contemporary art, including her discussion of the way work can be transactive, Bassnett considers how the work of these artists addresses viewers, and how different archival practices unsettle conventional viewing relationships. In…
Life Magazine in Africa and the Ideology of Modernization
Life was a popular news magazine that used photography to influence the way millions of Americans perceived geopolitical events during the Cold War. Combining information and entertainment in new ways, it reassured its predominantly white, middle-class readership of their privileged place within a volatile world. This article considers how the ideology of modernization informed the magazine's coverage of Africa. Prevalent from the late 1940 s to …
Picturing filth and disorder: Photography and urban governance in Toronto
In July of 1911, just nine months after his appointment to the post of Medical Health Officer for the City of Toronto, Dr Charles Hastings issued a report on an investigation of slum conditions in the city. 1 Hastings, a fifty-two year old obstetrician, was appointed Medical Health Officer in October of 1910. His predecessor, Dr Charles Sheard, left the post shortly after a typhoid epidemic erupted in February of 1910. The investigation found tha…
Photography and Corporate Culture
From Public Relations to Art: Exhibiting Frances Benjamin Johnston's Hampton Institute Photographs
This article examines the circulation of a series of photographs taken by Frances Benjamin Johnston at the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Hampton, Virginia, in 1899. It looks first at their display in the context of the American Negro Exhibit at the Paris Exposition of 1900; second, it considers an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1966; and third, it discusses an exhibit at the Williams College Museum of Art in 20…
Archive and Affect in Contemporary Photography
This article concentrates on two contemporary photographers, Greg Staats and Arnaud Maggs, whose work generates an affective response by engaging in an archival practice. Drawing on Jill Bennett's analysis of affect in contemporary art, including her discussion of the way work can be transactive, Bassnett considers how the work of these artists addresses viewers, and how different archival practices unsettle conventional viewing relationships. In…
Cold War visual alliances
Life Magazine in Africa and the Ideology of Modernization
Life was a popular news magazine that used photography to influence the way millions of Americans perceived geopolitical events during the Cold War. Combining information and entertainment in new ways, it reassured its predominantly white, middle-class readership of their privileged place within a volatile world. This article considers how the ideology of modernization informed the magazine's coverage of Africa. Prevalent from the late 1940 s to …
Family, Diaspora, and the Politics of Care in Griselda San Martin’s The Wall , 2015-16
This article examines a series of photographs by Griselda San Martin, a Spanish journalist and documentary photographer based in New York City and Mexico City. The series focuses on the experiences of people at Friendship Park, a bi-national park located in the border region of San Diego, United States, and Tijuana, Mexico. Working in Tijuana, San Martin engaged with families as they attempted to connect with loved ones across the border in San D…
Migratory Technology: Piracy and Bazaar Culture in India and Nepal
This interview between film and media scholar Ishita Tiwary and art historian Sarah Bassnett was conducted over Zoom in February 2023. It focuses on Tiwary's research on the migration of photographic and media technologies from China to India and Nepal in the period from the 1980s to the present. The discussion concentrates on how piracy and the illicit trade in goods such as cameras and mobile phones has shaped border cultures and access to cons…
Photography and 21st-Century Migration
Trevor Paglen’s Border Abstractions in the Age of Machine Vision
Over the past two decades, machine vision and artificial intelligence (AI) have become integrated into many aspects of daily life, and with machines generating images for other machines, humans are no longer at the centre of the image world. To explore the implications of the age of machine vision, this article focuses on a selection of work by American artist Trevor Paglen made between 2008 and 2018. It examines the significance of the US-Mexico…
Rescue Politics: Richard Mosse’s Thermal Imaging and the Containment of Migration
This article focuses on a body of work by Mosse that includes the multichannel video installation Incoming, shown as a 52:12 minute three-channel video installation with 7.3 surround sound, and the photographic series Heat Maps (2015–2017) (Fig. 1). While Incoming concentrates on migration routes, Heat Maps portrays the architecture of refugee camps.4 I consider how the artist’s use of thermal imaging and his immersive mode of documentary complic…
Retrieving images from tarnished daguerreotypes using X-ray fluorescence imaging with an X-ray micro beam with tunable energy
We report recent observations using a synchrotron X-ray micro-beam to retrieve images from tarnished 19th century daguerreotypes. We confirm that high quality image can always be retrieved from tarnished plates using Hg Lα XRF as long as the bulk of the image particles and their distribution remains intact. We also report results from using tunable tender X-rays (2 - 7 keV) to conduct imaging in high vacuum at energy above the Ag L-edge and the H…
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