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Striking Images: Photographs of Iowa Packinghouse Labor Conflict, 1948–1960
Full text linkMEATPACKING has long been a major Iowa industry. Archives in the state are replete with information about the industry, and many authors have documented its history and impact in the state.This article is published as Morgan, Emily Kathryn. "Striking Images: Photographs of Iowa Packinghouse Labor Conflict, 1948–1960." The Annals of Iowa 77 (2018), 151-189. Available at: DOI: 10.17077/0003-4827.12500. Posted with permission. </p
Harry Callahan’s Pornographic Appropriations
Full text linkIn the mid- to late 1960s and early 1970s, the American photographer Harry Callahan made a series of multiple-exposure images incorporating appropriated pictures from soft-core pornographic magazines. This was not his sole deployment of appropriated imagery: in the 1950s, he had produced a series for which he took images from women’s fashion magazines, and from the 1960s to the 1980s he made another series that incorporated pictures from his television screen. Despite this sustained interest, however, Callahan is not regarded as an appropriation artist. His work is generally seen as a lyrical modernism concerned almost exclusively with formal issues and personal expression.This accepted article is published as Morgan, Emily Kathryn. “Harry Callahan’s Pornographic Appropriations.” Art Journal77:3 (Fall 2018): 92-112. doi: 10.1080/00043249.2018.1530013. Posted with permission.</p
Waterloo Packer: Selling Slaughter
Full text linkIn 1941, the Rath Packing Company of Waterloo, Iowa published a book titled Waterloo Packer: The Story of the Rath Packing Company to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary in the meatpacking industry. Modelled on Life magazine, Waterloo Packer co-opted the photoessay format to commercial ends. Examining archival documentation and looking at other American industrial publications, this article illuminates Waterloo Packer’s conception by executives of the Rath Company and consultants from advertising agency Young and Rubicam; and it contextualises Waterloo Packer as the most innovative of a series of ‘industrial biographies’ produced in the USA at midcentury. Through close reading of Waterloo Packer as phototext, this article demonstrates how the Rath Packing Company deployed photographic imagery to present a controlled and sanitised vision of industrial-scale slaughter.This accepted article is published as Morgan, Emily Kathryn. “Waterloo Packer: Selling Slaughter.” History of Photography 42:2 (May 2018), 128-145. Doi: 10.1080/03087298.2018.1500786. Posted with permission. </p
Forward - Street Life in London
No full textSTREET LIFE IN LONDON began its run as a monthly serial publication in February of 1877, Each issue included three essays addressing various forms of London labour, accompanied by related photographs. Recognized today as a groundbreaking publication, one of the first forays into what would come to be called "documentary" photography, the publication was hardly a resounding success in its own time. When its authors, journalist Adolphe Smith and photographer John Thomson, first set out to profile the people who worked in and inhabited London's streets, they did not intend their project to span only one year; and when the serial ended its run in January 1878 after just twelve issues, the authors had hardly said all they had set out to say, and certainly not everything there was to say, about London street life. The Victorian book-buying public, however, expressed relatively little interest in the publication, and critics voiced their perplexity. Though the publisher, Sampson Low and Co., had hoped to maintain Street Life in London on its growing list of photographically-illustrated offerings, the firm instead cancelled the publication after
just twelve instalments.This forward is published as Morgan, Emily Kathryn. “Forward,” Street Life in London, by John Thomson and Adolphe Smith. Rpt. Edinburgh / Boston: Museums Etc. https://museumsetc.com/products/street-life-in-london?_pos=2&_sid=1fbbf75cb&_ss=r. Posted with permission
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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