Field of Research. The discovery of therapeutic agents to treat cancer diseases in humans.
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Field of Research. NC State University must use reasonable efforts, as a research university, to perform research projects as contemplated in task orders issued under this Master Research Agreement (hereinafter called “Research” or “Project”).
Field of Research. The field of research of my dissertation is nineteenth-century Iranian portrait photography. The origin and motivation of this choice lies in my own work as photographer in Asia. After a two and half year of travel from Turkey to China by land, I came back to Spain in the Summer of 2000 with around sixty rolls of films, mostly black and white, and I published several portfolios and the catalogue of a solo exhibition about the work of women in Asia that opened in the Principe Xxxxxx Museum in Valencia (2001). Many of the photographs showed women doing hard physical work (carrying bricks, breaking stones, etc.) and others performing daily life tasks like picking up or carrying water, cooking or taking care of children. I sent the catalogue to an Iranian poet who liked it but remarked that in some of the photographs he could guess that I was a Western photographer. I did not really know what he exactly meant by that, but whatever it was, it concerned me for some time. It motivated me to finish my incipient career as a photographer and began a long period of reflection and study whose final result is this dissertation. Xxxx has inspired and fascinated me for many years, first as a photographer and later as researcher. I am fluent in Persian and I decided to focus my research on Iran because it is one of the most under-researched Middle Eastern countries by Western photo-historians. I hold a degree in Astrophysics (University of Barcelona), and it is my scientific background that has enabled me to approach the topic from an analytical point of view: in this dissertation I undertake a visual analysis of nineteenth-century Iranian portrait photography. The camera is not just an a-cultural technical device, a non-culture influenced medium. Culture, or more precisely, the cultural background of the photographer, does play a role in the process of taking a photograph. Photography produces constructions of real life and photographs are cultural productions. Photography is clearly not a mirror of daily life: the fact that images are constructions is especially obvious in nineteenth-century portrait photography. My aim in this dissertation is to analyse photographs in order to show this cultural conditioning in the creation of images. I chose images through the use of fine detail. The corpus of photographs selected for this dissertation constitutes a practical example of photography’s construction of the visual world and the goal of this research is to demonstrate that...
