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William Fysh

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ID5936209
NAMEWilliam Fysh
GIVEN NAMESWilliam
FAMILY NAMEFysh
SIGNATUREFYSH W
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS2
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT2
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
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  • Infrastructures of Light: Tropicapitalism and Germaine Krull’s Camera

    William Fysh•ARTICLE•Photography and Culture•2020•References: 8

    To understand the relationship between the camera and colonial capitalism, we must consider photography not just as a tool but as an infrastructural system, the very grounds upon which movements of goods, capital and ideas can be sustained, regulated, and interrupted. Focusing on French-Dutch-German photographer Germaine Krull, this article examines how the development of photographic infrastructures in mid-twentieth century Paris and Equatorial …

  • The little crystal eye would not blink’: Jean Rouch and the camera eyewitness

    Open Access•William Fysh•ARTICLE•Screen•2018

    In a 1951 article series for Franc-Tireur, Jean Rouch described his fears as an ethnographic filmmaker. One must, he wrote, navigate between the detached observation of the ‘dry-eyed savant’ and the myopic immersion of a new ‘Robinson Crusoe’ bereft of his perspective-glass. If Rouch’s anxiety touched on a familiar cliche of both ethnographic fieldwork and documentary filmmaking, it would nonetheless operate idiosyncratically in his work as a rec…

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  • The little crystal eye would not blink’: Jean Rouch and the camera eyewitness

    Open Access•William Fysh•ARTICLE•Screen•2018

    In a 1951 article series for Franc-Tireur, Jean Rouch described his fears as an ethnographic filmmaker. One must, he wrote, navigate between the detached observation of the ‘dry-eyed savant’ and the myopic immersion of a new ‘Robinson Crusoe’ bereft of his perspective-glass. If Rouch’s anxiety touched on a familiar cliche of both ethnographic fieldwork and documentary filmmaking, it would nonetheless operate idiosyncratically in his work as a rec…

  • Infrastructures of Light: Tropicapitalism and Germaine Krull’s Camera

    William Fysh•ARTICLE•Photography and Culture•2020•References: 8

    To understand the relationship between the camera and colonial capitalism, we must consider photography not just as a tool but as an infrastructural system, the very grounds upon which movements of goods, capital and ideas can be sustained, regulated, and interrupted. Focusing on French-Dutch-German photographer Germaine Krull, this article examines how the development of photographic infrastructures in mid-twentieth century Paris and Equatorial …

Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · African history and culture studies (1 works) · Ancient history (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Art (1 works)

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