17 results on '"Netter, Louis"'
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2. The graphic construct of the contemporary reportage artist : vison, experience and drawing
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Netter, Louis
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741.6 ,W110 Drawing ,W900 Others in Creative Arts and Design - Abstract
The focus of this research is to re-locate contemporary reportage drawing. Reportage drawing, as I am defining it here, is the contemporary practice of drawing people and places in-situ from observation, memory, or imagination. Cleaved from its historical function and journalistic orientation, the contemporary practice engages with the dialogic act of drawing and the subjectivities that pervade it, rendering two-fold experience; the experience of the subject in-situ and in the act of drawing. The re-creative experience of the drawing act and the communion with the artist’s negotiations in-situ are entered through the graphic construct of the artist. The record of the drawing evokes this complexly layered act, rendering a highly specific experience of the subject. This view of reportage drawing is distinct from existing research in that it looks at its form and formation using art history, drawing theorists, theory on experience, and space and place. Looking at the role of observation and artistic training from an art historical perspective, the act is seen as emerging from the practice of the sketch and how that aesthetic, and the perception of that aesthetic as spontaneous and responsive, is an exploited property of reportage. Existing research in reportage has looked at its diverse functions and history along with its potential as a political act. The research presented here explores the act as rooted to the specific graphic construct of the artist, the totality of the experience in-situ, and the wider intentions of the artist, bound by the same desire to relay the experience of the subject without artifice. In the presence of photography and a fluid media landscape, reportage drawing persisted through the 20th and now 21st century not as a competitor, but an alternative, and the graphic construct of reportage drawing has taken ownership of a unique testimony to personal experience and perception. Through interviews with two contemporary practitioners of reportage and my own reportage practice and reflections, I identify that the work is the composite of concerns, condensed in the graphic construct of the drawing, and shaped by the layered experience of working in-situ. Interviews and a video of artists in-situ highlight the procedural choices made and how the drawings are containers of experience in their form and formation. The successful record of the drawing results in a re-creative experience of the conditions of its making and an insight into the experience of the artist in-situ. Detached from journalistic ideals, contemporary reportage drawing is a diffuse practice, sharing only the singular desire to express personal vision and engage with the potentialities of drawing itself.
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- 2020
3. 'Whose story is it, anyway?': perception, representation, and identity in textual and visual reportage of English seaside towns.
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Netter, Louis and Sykes, Tom
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ETHNOLOGY , *JOURNALISTS , *CULTURAL studies , *REPORTAGE literature - Abstract
In his study Storycraft, the veteran American journalist Jack Hart asks the following questions about reportage, memoir and other forms of nonfiction writing that proceed from the first-person perspective of their author: 'Where's the storyteller standing? What can he see and hear? Whose story is it, anyway?' (Hart, 2021, Storycraft: The complete guide to writing narrative nonfiction (p. 39). University of Chicago Press). The questions are suggestive of the formal and creative decisions reportage practitioners must make, but also of their ethical obligations to fairly represent their human subjects, especially if they are vulnerable, underprivileged and/or marginalized. The hinting at viewpoint – 'whose story...' – might also make us think about how identity is constructed from the stories we tell about ourselves and about our interactions with the world. This paper addresses all these issues primarily, though not exclusively, through the prism of Coast of Teeth, a practice-based visual and textual reportage project we completed in late 2022. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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4. Community sensitisation using participatory arts-based methods for the research study 'Tupumue: Non-communicable lung disease in Kenya: from burden and early life determinants to participatory inter-disciplinary solutions.'
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Bowyer, Cressida, primary, Netter, Louis, additional, Hahn, Matthew, additional, Omeru, Rafat, additional, Abwao, Howard, additional, Devereux, Graham, additional, Meme, Helen, additional, and Gray, Cindy, additional
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- 2023
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5. Asthma symptoms, spirometry and air pollution exposure in schoolchildren in an informal settlement and an affluent area of Nairobi, Kenya
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Meme, Hellen, primary, Amukoye, Evans, additional, Bowyer, Cressida, additional, Chakaya, Jeremiah, additional, Das, Darpan, additional, Dobson, Ruaraidh, additional, Dragosits, Ulrike, additional, Fuld, Jonathan, additional, Gray, Cindy, additional, Hahn, Matthew, additional, Kiplimo, Richard, additional, Lesosky, Maia, additional, Loh, Miranda M, additional, McKendree, Jean, additional, Mortimer, Kevin, additional, Ndombi, Amos, additional, Netter, Louis, additional, Obasi, Angela, additional, Orina, Fred, additional, Pearson, Clare, additional, Price, Heather, additional, Quint, Jennifer K, additional, Semple, Sean, additional, Twigg, Marsailidh, additional, Waelde, Charlotte, additional, Walnycki, Anna, additional, Warwick, Melaneia, additional, Wendler, Jana, additional, West, Sarah E, additional, Wilson, Michael, additional, Zurba, Lindsay, additional, and Devereux, Graham, additional
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- 2023
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6. Asthma symptoms, spirometry and air pollution exposure in schoolchildren in an informal settlement and an affluent area of Nairobi, Kenya
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Meme, Hellen, Amukoye, Evans, Bowyer, Cressida, Chakaya, Jeremiah, Das, Darpan, Dobson, Ruaraidh, Dragosits, Ulrike, Fuld, Jonathan, Gray, Cindy, Hahn, Matthew, Kiplimo, Richard, Lesosky, Maia, Loh, Miranda M, McKendree, Jean, Mortimer, Kevin, Ndombi, Amos, Netter, Louis, Obasi, Angela, Orina, Fred, Pearson, Clare, Price, Heather, Quint, Jennifer K, Semple, Sean, Twigg, Marsailidh, Waelde, Charlotte, Walnycki, Anna, Warwick, Melaneia, Wendler, Jana, West, Sarah E, Wilson, Michael, Zurba, Lindsay, Devereux, Graham, Amukoye, Evans [0000-0003-0683-0585], Pearson, Clare [0000-0003-3274-1586], Quint, Jennifer K [0000-0003-0149-4869], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
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asthma epidemiology ,asthma ,paediatric asthma - Abstract
BACKGROUND: Although 1 billion people live in informal (slum) settlements, the consequences for respiratory health of living in these settlements remain largely unknown. This study investigated whether children living in an informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya are at increased risk of asthma symptoms. METHODS: Children attending schools in Mukuru (an informal settlement in Nairobi) and a more affluent area (Buruburu) were compared. Questionnaires quantified respiratory symptoms and environmental exposures; spirometry was performed; personal exposure to particulate matter (PM2.5) was estimated. RESULTS: 2373 children participated, 1277 in Mukuru (median age, IQR 11, 9-13 years, 53% girls), and 1096 in Buruburu (10, 8-12 years, 52% girls). Mukuru schoolchildren were from less affluent homes, had greater exposure to pollution sources and PM2.5. When compared with Buruburu schoolchildren, Mukuru schoolchildren had a greater prevalence of symptoms, 'current wheeze' (9.5% vs 6.4%, p=0.007) and 'trouble breathing' (16.3% vs 12.6%, p=0.01), and these symptoms were more severe and problematic. Diagnosed asthma was more common in Buruburu (2.8% vs 1.2%, p=0.004). Spirometry did not differ between Mukuru and Buruburu. Regardless of community, significant adverse associations were observed with self-reported exposure to 'vapours, dusts, gases, fumes', mosquito coil burning, adult smoker(s) in the home, refuse burning near homes and residential proximity to roads. CONCLUSION: Children living in informal settlements are more likely to develop wheezing symptoms consistent with asthma that are more severe but less likely to be diagnosed as asthma. Self-reported but not objectively measured air pollution exposure was associated with increased risk of asthma symptoms.
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- 2023
7. Sketchbooks from Covid and Beyond
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Netter, Louis Richard
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The closing shutter of lockdown on our sense of normality, routine and freedom had a profound effect on how we see the world and evaluate meaning and value. We quickly realised that our orientation towards life itself was distorted by demands from work, socialising, and a sleepy comfort in the status quo. Through drawing, I sought to examine this new reality by visually realising some of the insights which had been prompted by both a lack of freedom of movement and, a growing realisation of the limitations of political, social, and cultural institutions. A satirical language that had developed throughout my artistic career took a turn towards the improvisational, experimental, and provocative. My visual language was becoming refined and through a ‘no strings attached’ drawing without planning or sketching, the moves of the drawing were closely matched to movement in my own thinking. The detail I was able to provide in these drawings came from years of observing and drawing and observing and doing, as Causey calls, ‘after drawings’ from memory. (2017) This built a capacity for remembering forms drawn and drawing from mental images has enabled a liberation from reference, and with that the ability to manifest almost any pictorial reality convincingly. These drawings utilise the function and effect of caricature to deliver personal and political messages and are consciously indulgent, stylistic, and share the features of mannerism. Ernst Kris noted of the origins of caricature and it’s overriding contribution noting ‘caricature seeks to discover a likeness in deformity; in this way, so runs the theory of the time, it comes nearer to truth than does reality. This settles the nature of its achievement; it serves the purpose of unmasking another person, familiar to us as a technique of degradation.’ (Kris, 1964, p.175) Kris makes a distinction within caricature between the ‘comic’ effect and the more transformative qualities of caricature and notes that ‘pleasure’ is the unifying effect of the two. (ibid) This description resonates with the drawings below which asks small and large questions of the viewer through their propositional, caricatural language and delights the viewer in the satisfaction of a reality re-rendered for consideration of its flaws and folly., BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching, Vol 3 No 1 (2022): Social Dimensions
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- 2023
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8. St Patrick’s Wars.
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Sykes, Tom and Netter, Louis
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SAINT Patrick's Day ,PARADES ,COLLECTIVE behavior ,VIOLENCE ,SPECIAL events - Abstract
The article focuses on the chaotic and often rowdy atmosphere of the St. Patrick's Day parade in South Boston, Massachusetts in March 2023. It describes the crowd's behavior, which includes public intoxication and occasional violence, as well as the juxtaposition of military displays and charity events within the parade. It also reflects on the absence of Irish cultural elements in the celebration.
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- 2023
9. The Coast of Teeth and Eyes: Drawing the seaside from the inside out
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Netter, Louis Richard
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The ongoing research/book project provisionally titled A Coast of Teeth, is an exploration of English seaside towns through drawing and writing. My own role as a reportage artist is to respond to what I see and document it in-situ. What we have found on our travels to Torquay, Paignton, Bournemouth, Clacton-on-Sea, Jaywick and Weston Super Mare are landscapes which are reflective of the socio-economic realities on the ground and a people who bare the physio-psycho trauma of such conditions in their behaviours and physicality. Internal conflict manifests itself in physical conditions such as obvious physical disability, anti-social behaviour, obesity and malnutrition from drug use. Working with a writer, it is interesting to see how the writing and the drawing speaks to internal and external realities and the convergence of past and present as an evolving circumstance for people in these towns who struggle for relevance and economic sustenance. Drawings evolve from the same process as all vision and understanding; a refined cataloguing of people, places and things. This piece explores how drawings can capture momentary insights that elude writing and approximate the complex convergence of vision, thought and experience., BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching, Vol 2 No 2 (2021): Outside - Inside
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- 2022
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10. Contemporary reportage drawing:ecstatic moments and hybridity
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Netter, Louis
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reportage drawing ,drawing - Abstract
The field of contemporary reportage practice is diverse and divergent. No longer is reportage drawing restricted to the commissioning structures of print media and accompanying expectations of journalistic doctrine. Contemporary reportage disseminates it’s activity largely through online exposure and some specialist print publications such as Eye magazine and Varoom (both devoted to illustration and or design). There has also been a notable split between professional and enthusiast activity with the explosion of Urban Sketchers. This organisation captures the important and previously unseen activity by professionals from a variety of fields within, and on the periphery of art and design along with amateur enthusiasts. For many within Urban Sketchers, this activity is about refining vision and the pure pleasure of engaging with their surroundings. The important split between this activity and ‘professional’ reportage artists is in the terms of their engagement. In contemporary reportage drawing, practitioners are seeking subjects and circumstances that are both personally significant and provide some opportunity to exploit the political andsocial dimensions of their subject. The authorial shift in reportage drawing is not a refutation of its journalistic origins and rather takes those ideals and applies them inward. Contemporary practitioners are setting their own briefs and find sustenance in un-explored political and social terrain while mining the qualities of their own drawing. This contemporary moment for reportage drawing has come to be most vividly about drawing itself. In a crowded and quickly moving media landscape, drawing becomes a visible reminder of the power and limitations of the hand and all that tells us about vision, witness and the layers of understanding contained in marks and lines that are dashed out in confrontation with a world in flux. This paper seeks to explore past and contemporary reportage artists and my own work as an example of how the practice has come to highlight the qualities of drawing and experience and, how self-initiated work has meant an evolution of the relationship between text, image and journalism.
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- 2020
11. Contemporary Reportage Drawing
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Netter, Louis Richard
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The field of contemporary reportage practice is diverse and divergent. No longer is reportage drawing restricted to the commissioning structures of print media and accompanying expectations of journalistic doctrine. In contemporary reportage drawing, practitioners are seeking subjects and circumstances that are both personally significant and provide some opportunity to exploit the political and social dimensions of their subject. The authorial shift in reportage drawing is not a refutation of its journalistic origins and rather takes those ideals and applies them inward. This contemporary moment for reportage drawing has come to be most vividly about drawing itself. This paper seeks to explore past and contemporary reportage artists and my own work as an example of how the practice has come to highlight the qualities of drawing and experience and, how self-initiated work has meant an evolution of the relationship between text, image and journalism., BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching, Vol 1 No 2 (2020): Reportage
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- 2020
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12. Mapping experience in reportage drawing
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Netter, Louis, primary
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- 2016
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13. Steal This History: historiography, the Sixties and the comic
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Netter, Louis, primary and Gruner, Oliver, additional
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- 2016
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14. Steal This History: historiography, the Sixties and the comic.
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Netter, Louis and Gruner, Oliver
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UNITED States history , *GRAPHIC novels , *COMIC books, strips, etc. , *PRACTICAL politics , *NINETEEN sixties - Abstract
A comic book, a graphic research paper, an experiment in image and text – ‘Steal This History’ explores the 1960s (or ‘Sixties’) as it has appeared in various historical and commemorative discourses. For more than forty years, the Sixties has been discussed and debated in the U.S. public sphere. Its political and cultural legacy continues to excite conflict and disagreement. The following pages provide a multi-perspective account of the Sixties that combines allusions to historical events with personal reflection, poetic imagery, symbol and metaphor. Influenced by the ideas of Hayden White, Alun Munslow, Robert A. Rosenstone and others, we became fascinated by the potential of the image as a conduit for innovative, challenging, self-conscious histories. ‘Steal This History’ builds on these ideas and explores ways of developing a graphic philosophy of history. There is no attempt, here, to provide a comprehensive account of the Sixties, nor to cite every key event, person or movement. Rather, what follows is a partial collection of ideas. We hope readers will enjoy the piece, and that it might spark a dialogue on future directions for graphic historiography. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2017
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15. ARTS.
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Netter, Louis
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INTELLECTUAL disabilities ,CREATIVE directors - Abstract
My artistic heroes are George Grosz and presently, Priit Paarn. I am excited by making art but dismayed at the ugly world of greed and idiocy. Art-making is always a small (or big) revolutionary act. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2020
16. Rapport V-7 Prise en compte des facteurs de sauvegarde de l’environnement dans l’utilisation des cours d’eau, canaux et plans d’eaux intérieurs à des fins de loisirs
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Netter, Louis-Noël
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The use of waterways for leisure purposes is expanding on a large scale, covering a vast number of users and involving a wide range of activities. Development work is, however, constrained by a certain number of problems which have arisen too recently to enable ready solutions to be found. These include the need for a genuine amenities policy, legal problems associated with making open spaces available for communal use, identifying and setting up suitable organizational structures for planning, works supervision and management, the demarcation and management of public property and the design and implementation of development projects integrating environmental considerations with the need for amenities., L’utilisation de l’eau à des fins de loisirs est un phénomène en pleine expansion. Elle intéresse une très vaste clientèle et permet des activités nombreuses et variées. Mais elle ne saurait se développer sans que soient résolus un certain nombre de pro¬ blèmes qui sont encore trop récents pour que l’on puisse déjà apporter des solutions : prise en compte d’une véritable politique des loisirs, problèmes juridiques liés à l’ouverture de l’espace à des fins collectives, identification et définition des structures d’organisation permettant la réflexion, la maîtrise d’ouvrage et la gestion, création et gestion d’un patrimoine foncier largement ouvert au public, étude et réalisation des projets d’aménagements intégrant l’environnement à la demande de loisirs., Netter Louis-Noël. Rapport V-7 Prise en compte des facteurs de sauvegarde de l’environnement dans l’utilisation des cours d’eau, canaux et plans d’eaux intérieurs à des fins de loisirs. In: L'hydrotechnique au service d'une politique de l'eau. Evolution des problèmes de l'eau au cours de la dernière décennie. Compte rendu des XVes journées de l'hydraulique. Toulouse, 5, 6 et 7 septembre 1976. Tome 2, 1979.
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- 1979
17. Perspectives offertes à l'exploitation agricole par la microinformatique et la télématique
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Netter, Louis-Noël, primary
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- 1989
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