Rachel Ozerkevich
Biographic Data
| ID | 6104101 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Ozerkevich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel |
| FAMILY NAME | Ozerkevich |
| SIGNATURE | OZERKEVICH R |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Conquering the Desert by Automobile
French media coverage of the Moroccan Rally, a gruelling international auto race that traversed Europe and colonial Morocco, in the 1930s framed as both a sporting event and a spectacle of colonial dominance as the race allowed European drivers to symbolically and physically occupy Moroccan terrain. Through photomechanical imagery and narrative accounts, the French sports press celebrated the race as a heroic conquest, portraying Morocco as an ex…
Cameras, Handwork, and Bodily Traces
This is an accepted article with a DOI pre-assigned that is not yet published.Laura Millard’s 2006 Lac Des Arcs depicts the traces left by skaters on an ice rink. The digital photograph’s surface is covered in handmade marks which serve as an index of the skaters and their motion over the ice. Millard’s work combines contemporary and nineteenth-century techniques: her handwork recalls the practice of overpainting in the late-nineteenth-century Fr…
Sports Through the Lens
In 2011, art historian Lynda Nead asserted that sports photography “has been completely overlooked in the history of photography” (“Stilling the Punch: Boxing, Violence and the Photographic Image,” Journal of Visual Culture 10 [3]: 309). In the years since Nead's paradigm-shifting writing, promising work by visual culture scholars such as Mike O'Mahony, Jennifer Doyle, and Tamar Garb has begun to promote the importance of visual histories of athl…
Physical culture, posing, and the medium of fitness magazines
Physical culture describes a new socio-political interest in physical activity which emerged in the late nineteenth century and became a global phenomenon. Physical culture was concerned with the ‘commercial and ideological cultivation of the body’, as made manifest in gymnasium and keep fit cultures. This paper focuses specifically on physical culture magazines, which began to be sold with regularity in North America and Europe from the late 189…
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Physical culture, posing, and the medium of fitness magazines
Physical culture describes a new socio-political interest in physical activity which emerged in the late nineteenth century and became a global phenomenon. Physical culture was concerned with the ‘commercial and ideological cultivation of the body’, as made manifest in gymnasium and keep fit cultures. This paper focuses specifically on physical culture magazines, which began to be sold with regularity in North America and Europe from the late 189…
Cameras, Handwork, and Bodily Traces
This is an accepted article with a DOI pre-assigned that is not yet published.Laura Millard’s 2006 Lac Des Arcs depicts the traces left by skaters on an ice rink. The digital photograph’s surface is covered in handmade marks which serve as an index of the skaters and their motion over the ice. Millard’s work combines contemporary and nineteenth-century techniques: her handwork recalls the practice of overpainting in the late-nineteenth-century Fr…
Sports Through the Lens
In 2011, art historian Lynda Nead asserted that sports photography “has been completely overlooked in the history of photography” (“Stilling the Punch: Boxing, Violence and the Photographic Image,” Journal of Visual Culture 10 [3]: 309). In the years since Nead's paradigm-shifting writing, promising work by visual culture scholars such as Mike O'Mahony, Jennifer Doyle, and Tamar Garb has begun to promote the importance of visual histories of athl…
Conquering the Desert by Automobile
French media coverage of the Moroccan Rally, a gruelling international auto race that traversed Europe and colonial Morocco, in the 1930s framed as both a sporting event and a spectacle of colonial dominance as the race allowed European drivers to symbolically and physically occupy Moroccan terrain. Through photomechanical imagery and narrative accounts, the French sports press celebrated the race as a heroic conquest, portraying Morocco as an ex…
Advertising (1 works) · African Studies and Geopolitics (1 works) · American Sports and Literature (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Business (1 works) · Colonialism (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Desert (philosophy) (1 works) · Digital Games and Media (1 works) · Discipline (1 works)