Photography on trial: the accusation of indecency Beauty and Menace/Sublime Peril

This exegesis contextualises and critically examines my creative practice which has children as its subject matter. It describes my prosecution under the old Censorship Act of 1996 and the Criminal Code that was in effect at the time for taking photographs of my naked and semi-naked children, which...

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Main Author: Petrillo, Concetta
Format: Thesis
Published: Curtin University 2020
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/84908
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description This exegesis contextualises and critically examines my creative practice which has children as its subject matter. It describes my prosecution under the old Censorship Act of 1996 and the Criminal Code that was in effect at the time for taking photographs of my naked and semi-naked children, which was later dismissed by a court of law. Autoethnography is used to locate the chronology and social and cultural circumstances of my practice during and after that event, and Pierre Bourdieu’s theories on habitus and field are used as a way of understanding how the socio-juridical field impacted on my creative habitus, and how my creative habitus could be enriched.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-849082021-08-03T03:36:53Z Photography on trial: the accusation of indecency Beauty and Menace/Sublime Peril Petrillo, Concetta This exegesis contextualises and critically examines my creative practice which has children as its subject matter. It describes my prosecution under the old Censorship Act of 1996 and the Criminal Code that was in effect at the time for taking photographs of my naked and semi-naked children, which was later dismissed by a court of law. Autoethnography is used to locate the chronology and social and cultural circumstances of my practice during and after that event, and Pierre Bourdieu’s theories on habitus and field are used as a way of understanding how the socio-juridical field impacted on my creative habitus, and how my creative habitus could be enriched. 2020 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/84908 Curtin University fulltext
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Photography on trial: the accusation of indecency Beauty and Menace/Sublime Peril
title Photography on trial: the accusation of indecency Beauty and Menace/Sublime Peril
title_full Photography on trial: the accusation of indecency Beauty and Menace/Sublime Peril
title_fullStr Photography on trial: the accusation of indecency Beauty and Menace/Sublime Peril
title_full_unstemmed Photography on trial: the accusation of indecency Beauty and Menace/Sublime Peril
title_short Photography on trial: the accusation of indecency Beauty and Menace/Sublime Peril
title_sort photography on trial: the accusation of indecency beauty and menace/sublime peril
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/84908