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

    Petrillo C 2020.pdf (62.43Mb)
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    Open access
    Authors
    Petrillo, Concetta
    Date
    2020
    Supervisor
    Kit Messham-Muir
    Toni Wilkinson
    Type
    Thesis
    Award
    PhD
    
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    Faculty
    Humanities
    School
    School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/84908
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    • Curtin Theses
    Abstract

    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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