Waiting for the countershot: contributions to a reading of a new History of Photography

Authors

  • Cláudia Coimbra Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Letras, Departamento de Estudos Anglo-Americanos, CETAPS (Centre for English,Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies), 4099-002 Porto

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14591/aniki.v7n2.701

Keywords:

history, photography, movements, beauty, mystery

Abstract

An account of an "informal" approach to the technique(s) and aesthetics of photographic art, from the Paleolithic to modernity. Through it, we travel with and against images evoked as representative of movements and moments that encapsulate an idea of photograph(y), without losing neither its beauty nor its mystery.

Author Biography

Cláudia Coimbra, Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Letras, Departamento de Estudos Anglo-Americanos, CETAPS (Centre for English,Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies), 4099-002 Porto

Cláudia Coimbra holds a Bachelor's degree in Portuguese and English Studies, a Post-Graduate degree in Literature Classics and a Master degree in Literary, Cultural and Interart Studies (eighteenth-century English novel, namely the work of Samuel Richardson). She followed courses in Italy (Erasmus) and Denmark (Instituto Camões) and engaged in a series of seminars concerning the history of cinema in various institutions (Alliance Française, Faculdade de Letras/UP, Faculdade de Psicologia e Ciências da Educação/UP). She teaches English and is a freelance translator. Currently she works on her PhD and, as a researcher, collaborates with the CETAPS (Centre for English,Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies), a research group at the Faculty of Arts (University of Porto). Her main research areas of interest include Early Modern Drama, Cultural Studies, Romanticism, Modernism and Gender Studies.

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Published

2020-07-14

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 2 (2020): Filmmakers’ theory: an approach to the study of cinema

Section

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