Naslov
Face-mockers, Face-shifters, and Face swappers: Agency and Personal Identity in Portrait Photography Today

Autori
Peraica, Ana

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u zbornicima skupova, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), znanstveni

Izvornik
Transdisciplinary Imaging Conference "Dark Eden" / - Sydney, 2021, 1-5

Skup
6th International Conference on Transdisciplinary Imaging at the Intersections between Art, Science and Culture: Dark Eden

Mjesto i datum
Sydney, Australija, 08.11.2020. - 09.11.2020

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
photography, identity, copyright

Sažetak
Until recently, the idea of stealing someone’s face was unheard of outside the realm of cinematic and literary fiction. In films, the idea of stealing a face can include the idea of transferring a character from one subject to another. It may even involve the death of the original face owner. Most often, the protagonist of the movie is a plastic surgeon, a mediator of faces. One of the oldest movies featuring this character is Anthony Mann’s American film noir classic Strange Impersonation (1946). In this film, a woman scientist takes the face of a person blackmailing her. In Stolen Face by Terence Fisher (1952) plastic surgeon Dr. Phillip Ritter attaches the face of a beautiful piano player to the head of a prisoner, Lily Conover, strongly believing that the prisoner might become a better person if she was more visually appealing. Unfortunately, the prisoner doesn’t change, and she persists in committing crimes. In Eyes without a Face, by Georges Franju (1960), a girl named Christine’s face is been damaged in a car accident caused by her father, who is a plastic surgeon. The surgeon and his assistant kidnap a young woman who look like Christine and tries unsuccessfully to transplant her face onto his daughter’s head. In Teshigahara’s Japanese noir Face by Another (1966), based on the novel by Kōbō Abe, the protagonist also takes someone else’s face. Here, like in Fisher’s Stolen Face, the question is whether a person changes his or her own character when donning someone else’s face — that is, whether the face itself has the agency to change the underlying person. Sometimes, when a person's face is stolen, that person may die. After all, it is integrally related to the agency of another person. Or, the person who took the face may change his behavior. In both cases, this is called changing the personal identity.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Povijest umjetnosti, Znanost o umjetnosti, Filmska umjetnost (filmske, elektroničke i medijske umjetnosti pokretnih slika)

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