WATER - a series of photographs by Louise Grayson

This body of photographic work has been created to firstly, explore a new approach to practice-led research that uses an “action genre” approach to reflective practice (Lemke) and secondly, to visually explore human interaction with the fundamental item in life - water. The first of these is based on the contention that to understand the meanings inherent in photographs we cannot look merely at the end result. It is essential to keep looking at the actions of practitioners, and the influences upon them, to determine how external influences affect the meaning potential of editorial photographs (Grayson, 2012). WATER therefore, provides an ideal platform to reflect upon the actions and influences involved in creating work within the photographic genre of photojournalism. It enables this practitioner to reflect on each stage of production to gain a better understanding of how external influences impact the narrative potential within images created. There are multi-faceted influences experienced by photographers who are creating images that, in turn, are part of constructing and presenting the narrative potential of editorial photographs. There is an important relationship between professional photographers and the technical, cultural, economic and institutional forces that impinge upon all stages of production and publication. What results is a greater understanding of technical, cultural, economic and institutional forces that impinge upon all stages of production and publication. Therefore, to understand the meanings inherent in photographs within WATER, I do not look merely at the end result. It provides a case study looking at my actions in the filed, and the influences upon me, to determine how external influences affect the meaning potential of these photographs (Grayson, 2012). As a result, this project adds to the body of scholarship around the definition of Photojournalism, how it has adapted to the current media environment and provides scope for further research into emerging new genres within editorial photography, such as citizen photojournalism. Concurrently, the photographs themselves were created to visually explore how there remains a humanistic desire to interact with the natural form of water even while living a modern cosmopolitan life around it. Taking a photojournalistic approach to exploring this phenomenon, the images were created by “capturing moments as they happened” with no posing or setting up of images. This serendipitous approach to the photographic medium provides the practitioner with at least an attempt to direct the subjectivity contained explicitly in photographs. What results is a series of images that extend the visual dialogue around the role of water within modern humanistic lifestyles and how it remains an integral part of our society’s behaviors. It captures important moments that document this relationship at this time of modern development. The resulting works were exhibited and published as part of the Head On Photo Festival, Australia's largest photo festival and the world's second largest festival in Sydney 20-24 May 2013. The WATER series of images were curated by three Magnum members; Ian Berry, Eli Reed and Chris Steele-Perkins. Magnum is a highly regarded international photographic co-operative with editorial offices in New York, London, Paris and Tokyo. There was a projection of the works as part of the official festival programme, presented to both members of the public and Sydney’s photography professionals. In addition, a sample of images from the WATER series was chosen for inclusion in the Magnum-published hardcover book. References Grayson, Louise. 2012. “Editorial photographs and patterns of practice.” Journalism Practice. Accessed: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17512786.2012.726836#.UbZN-L--1RQ Lemke, Jay. 1995. Textual Politics: Discourse and Social Dynamics. London: Taylor & Francis.

Food trail through Jasper, Lake Louise and Calgary in Canada

A travel article about food and landscape in Alberta. IN THE remote islands off Canada's east coast, I was given an old rule of survival: If you get lost in the forest, follow the bear tracks and eat what the bears eat, except skunk cabbage. There was no second rule for what to do about the bear, should he also appear. No matter. "Do this and you'll live," it says, "just as we did in the past."...

Walter Godshaw (Gottschalk), Louise "Isa" Gottschalk nee Rosenthal and Peter Zander; England.

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Portrait of Ernst Gottschalk with his wife Louise "Isa" nee Rosenthal; Welwyn Garden City, England.

Digital Image

El arte como mediador entre el artista y el trauma. Acercamientos al arte desde el psicoanalisis y la escultura de Louise Bourgeois

411 p. : il., col.

Effect of Pyrethrins and Rosemary on the ATPase Activities of Rat Cerebral Synaptosome

除虫菊酯越来越广泛地被应用于农业和家庭昆虫防治,主要通过作用于膜结合蛋白而对动物起神经毒性.迷迭香因其抗氧化功能而被应用于很多商业化的除虫菊酯产品中.本实验以大鼠大脑突触体ATP酶为研究对象,对除虫菊酯和迷迭香的药理学进行了研究.用Percoll梯度离心法分离突触体,通过检测无机磷的量来测定总ATP酶和Mg2+-ATP酶活性.结果表明,除虫菊酯在浓度为10 μmol/L时总ATP酶和Mg2+-ATP酶分别降低到对照的80.3%和46.9%.迷迭香在浓度为0.3～30 μmol/L时几乎不影响ATP酶活性,当浓度上升到3 000 μmol/L时,总ATP酶活性降低到66.8%,而Mg2+-ATP酶活性降低到54.5%. 10 μmol/L 除虫菊酯和30 μmol/L迷迭香混合物引起总ATP酶和Mg2+-ATP酶分别降低到72.9%和33.4%.结论: 1) 除虫菊酯能抑制大鼠大脑ATP酶活性; 2) 迷迭香只在高浓度下才对ATP酶有抑制作用; 3) 迷迭香能增强除虫菊酯对ATP酶的抑制作用.图3参19

Missions : their rise and development / by Louise Creighton.

http://www.archive.org/details/missionstheirris003069mbp