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Ua1c6/1 Demonstration / Protest Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of student / faculty demonstrations and protests of various types.

Ua1c6/8 Exhibit Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of exhibits at Western Kentucky University.

Ua1c6/3 Homecoming Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of homecoming celebrations, including Alumni Day.

Human Rights, Sharon Sliwinski

Data and Test Instruments

It is one of the most recognizable passages in the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) – that slightly oblique, and yet grave reference to the Nazi death camps: ‘Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind…’ These barbarous acts were front-page news in most of the Allied countries in the spring of 1945, at the very moment when the United Nations was founded at a conference in San Francisco. The newsstands were filled with photographs from the newly liberated Dachau and Buchenwald camps. Illustrated magazines such …

Sexual Violence In The Field Of Vision, Sharon Sliwinski

Data and Test Instruments

Meditating on a single photograph from a recent Human Rights Watch report concerning police violence in Northern British Columbia, Canada, this paper pursues two lines of questions about the visual politics of human rights. One concerns how our ways of seeing—our modes of attending to the vulnerability and integrity of particular persons—can itself be understood as a form of human rights practice. The other aims to widen space in contemporary political theory for thinking about how sexual violence functions as a central technology of sovereignty and how we might make this phenomenon more perceptible. The paper explores the ways photographs …

Understanding Basic Camera Exposures, Randy Matusow

Open Educational Resources

quiz to asses student's understanding of exposure and controlling light.

Artist Residency Programs Resources, Becca Albee

Open Educational Resources

A handout on artist residency programs resources.

Using The Enlarger To Make A Print, Randy Matusow

Open Educational Resources

Workflow for setting up a negative in the enlarger and printing it.

Abjection And Vision, Brianna Perry

AUCTUS: The Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship

I am currently researching medieval Christian mysticism and Black Hoodoo. Both traditions are founded upon a more involved relationship with the body and spirit. The herbalism, magic and superstition involved in the Black Hoodoo tradition have served as means of resistance among Black Americans. In light of the Tuskegee Airman incident, Black Americans’ doubt of the white medical establishment has increased. In a world dominated by reason and logic, magic makes less and less sense. The role of mystics provided new opportunities and fulfillment for medieval women, who found their voices through articulating and illustrating their visions. Visions primarily served …

Forum Magazine, Fall 2018

Forum Magazine

No abstract provided.

Rubric For Beginning Darkroom Photography, Randy Matusow

Open Educational Resources

A rubric to help evaluate different aspects of the student's work in class.

camera exposure, film developing, B&W printing

Printing Digital Inkjet Prints From Photoshop Through The Epson Driver, Manal Abu-Shaheen

Open Educational Resources

No abstract provided.

The Photographic Other: Paradox In The Cathexis Of Longing, Alex Cilla Bradley

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

A photographic and written examination of paradox in relation to the photograph

This research aims to illuminate the relationship between paradox and photography, elaborated via Julia Kristeva’s notion of the abject. Paradox is considered in relation to photography in terms of repeated and unresolved debates about the status of the photograph as either an ‘index of reality’ (Bate, 2004, p. 1) or as a sign. The significance of this research lies in its re-motivation of abjection in terms of paradox, not in order to resolve such debates but, rather, to illuminate the importance of such unresolved contradictions in terms of …

Ali, Ali, Twila Bird

TSOS Interview Gallery

At eighteen fate placed Ali and his family in the center of hostilities in northern Afghanistan. Warring militant factions killed hundreds of people in his village. Ali helped identify and bury dozens of his friends and neighbors in a mass grave.

We spent days and nights in the mountains and blocked on the borders. I crossed the mountainous border between Afghanistan and Pakistan walking with my handicap. Then it took us another sixteen hours to cross the border between Pakistan and Iran, also in very high mountains of more than 2500 meters. The Iranian police were killing people on the …

Jeanusnat, Jeanusnat, Tsos

TSOS Interview Gallery

Jeanusnat’s father, who was chief of a Nigerian community, was murdered by an enemy community. The murderer intended to kill Jeanusnat and his mother as well, but they fled to neighboring Niger. There, Jeanusnat parted ways with his mother, who stayed at the church with a family, and Jeanusnat crossed into Libya in the back of a truck. But once in Libya, danger persisted. He was confronted by some robbers who stabbed him with a knife and beat him, leaving injuries on his legs and shoulder. In Tripoli, a man offered him temporary refuge, where Jeanusnat stayed until he decided …

She Answered Yes, Shealyn Lach

The Laureate

No abstract provided.

The Laureate, 17th Edition (2018)

The Laureate

No abstract provided.

Sigh, Sophie Dennis

The Laureate

No abstract provided.

Feeling Small, Shealyn Lach

The Laureate

No abstract provided.

Holly, Montana Major

The Laureate

No abstract provided.

Hurry Up, Sophie Dennis

The Laureate

No abstract provided.

Belongings, Sophie Dennis

The Laureate

No abstract provided.

Untitled, Tanner Bosma

The Laureate

No abstract provided.

Me, Jonathan Sacha

The Laureate

No abstract provided.

Just Enough For The City, Katherine Goold

The Laureate

No abstract provided.

Ua1c11/99 John Perkins Photo Collection, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Photographs of members of the Barons fraternity collected by John Perkins.

Ua1c6/7 Entertainment Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of entertainment events.

Ua1c6/2 Commencement Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of commencement.

Ua1c6/5 Conferences / Workshops Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of conferences and workshops.

Ua1c11/101 Wku Spirit Masters Photo Collection, Wku Archives, Lauren Bond

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Photographs removed from Spirit Master scrapbooks.