Chapter by Alise Tifentale, "The Selfie: More and Less than a Self-Portrait," appears in the new Chinese edition of The Routledge Companion to Photography and Visual Culture (2020). The book chapter was written in 2016, and the original English edition was published in 2018, edited by Moritz Neumüller.
Read moreNew book chapter on photo history: "Fifty Year Eclipse"
"Fifty Year Eclipse: Illuminating the Forgotten Legacy of Photographer Vilis Rīdzenieks" is a book chapter commissioned for an edited volume dedicated to the legacy of Latvian photographer Vilis Rīdzenieks (1884–1962).
Read moreWhat did I do in 2018?
As a somewhat belated attempt to keep in touch with everybody who haven’t seen me for a while, here’s a brief look back at 2018.
Read moreNew book chapter "The Selfie: More and Less than a Self-Portrait"
Just published! New book chapter is out: Alise Tifentale, “The Selfie: More and Less than a Self-Portrait,” in Moritz Neumüller, ed., Routledge Companion to Photography and Visual Culture (London, New York: Routledge, 2018), 44–58.
Read moreNew book chapter "Competitive Photography and the Presentation of the Self"
Hot off the press! New book chapter: Alise Tifentale and Lev Manovich, "Competitive Photography and the Presentation of the Self" in Jens Ruchatz, Sabine Wirth, and Julia Eckel, eds., Exploring the Selfie: Historical, Analytical, and Theoretical Approaches to Digital Self-Photography (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), 167-187.
Read more"The Impossibility of Capturing Butoh in Photography," a new book chapter
How to describe the relationship between butoh, a performance based on movement and emotion, and photography, a medium that freezes movement and removes all emotions? To address this question, in this article I compare of Kamaitachi (1968) by Japanese photographer Eikoh Hosoe (b. 1933), and Riga Pantomime (1964-1965) by Latvian photographer Zenta Dzividzinska (1944-2011).
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