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Franco Vaccari: from his photographic debut to Photomatic d'Italia
Full text linkopenL'elaborato analizza alcuni lavori di Franco Vaccari, artista e fotografo italiano, nato nel 1936 a Modena e tuttora in vita. Partendo dalle sue prime fotografie, passando per Esposizione in tempo reale n. 4: Lascia su queste pareti una traccia fotografica del tuo passaggio e arrivando a Photomatic d’Italia, la tesi segue il percorso artistico e concettuale dell’artista, figura pionieristica e rilevante nel panorama culturale internazionale.The paper analyzes some works by Franco Vaccari, an Italian artist and photographer, born in Modena in 1936 and still alive today. Starting from his first photographs, passing through Exhibition in real time n. 4: Leave on the walls a photographic trace of your fleeting visit and arriving at Photomatic d’Italia, the thesis follows the artistic and conceptual path of the artist, a pioneering and relevant figure in the international cultural panorama
Ferdinando Amigoni, Altezza degli occhi. Corpi, lampi e spettri nel Photomatic
Full text linkReview of Ferdinando Amigoni's Altezza degli occhi. Corpi, lampi e spettri nel Photomatic.Recensione del volume di Ferdinando Amigoni Altezza degli occhi. Corpi, lampi e spettri nel Photomatic
Ripristinare l’aura. Qualche nota su Peter Handke nel «Photomatic»
No full textIt is likely that the zenith of the photo booth’s success as a ‘desiring machine’,
capable of attracting painters, writers, performers, photographers and directors
was the 1970s. In this essay three encounters between Peter Handke and the
Photomatic are recreated; in A Moment of True Feeling (1975) and in The Left Handed Woman (both the 1976 novel and the film realised the following year),
this ‘fantastic image creating machine’ – as Wim Wenders described it – plays
anything but a secondary role. Despite being very different stories, Handke per ceives, in these works of his, the necessity of representing the photo booth, an
item of the urban landscape apparently bereft of any charm, as a fundamental
place in which to tackle the mystery of subjectivity and of the sacred
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
Altezza degli occhi. Corpi, lampi e spettri nel Photomatic
No full textDa quando apparve, negli anni Venti del secolo scorso, la cabina per fototessere – Photomatic – ha saputo attirare l’attenzione dell’uomo della strada e dell’artista. Pittori, scrittori, fotografi, ideatori di installazioni e performance, nonché registi cinematografici furono da subito folgorati da questa misteriosa macchina: una sorta di sgabuzzino segreto in luogo pubblico, simile a un confessionale, all’infantile nascondiglio, al peccaminoso peep-show o a un maleodorante orinatoio (non quello duchampiano da esposizione e asettico). Come se si fosse alle prese con qualcosa di illecito o impudico, ci si cela dietro alla tendina che permette l’intimità necessaria al rituale: scegliere una faccia che il flash immobilizzerà in una serie di piccoli autoritratti non tarderà a rivelarsi un’operazione molto più complessa di quanto non sembri.
I saggi qui raccolti si soffermano sulla centralità che queste «fantastiche macchine crea-immagini» – come le ha chiamate Wim Wenders – hanno saputo assicurarsi in alcune opere di Vladimir Nabokov, Peter Handke, Michel Tournier, nonché in quel capolavoro che s’intitola Alice nelle città. Primo, non solo per motivi cronologici, Franco Vaccari che segnò un punto apicale di estetica compiutezza e photomatica intelligenza, grazie a una leggendaria Esposizione in tempo reale, alla Biennale di Venezia del 1972. Nonostante l’eterogeneità delle opere scelte, a ogni occasione, l’automatico flash azionato con pochi spiccioli officia un rito tutt’altro che privo di magici e metafisici risvolti
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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