Bibliographic record
Abstract
A 104 page monograph comprising 47 photographs and accompanying short story by Booker Prize-winning author James Kelman. The book comprised photographic research made in a working-class community in Liverpool over a sustained period. Extending research around the dominant representation of working-class culture and the participant/observer, the work examined notions of the autobiographical, and the colloquial in documentary practice building upon developments within the field by employing diverse narrative structures and the convergence multi-vocal strategies. The work took a position remote from a field dominated by anthropological strategies and argued for the position of more dialectical and vernacular strategies within contemporary documentary study.\n\nAs a response to previous representations of working-class communities, the research was an extended enquiry into the notions of underclass, the unmapped communities who –through economic instability and transient work patterns had developed an ability to live outside regular and punctual patterns. The work explored the collaborations between photography and the narrative, and in particular the potential of the short story to create a foil for (and ‘slippage’ between) the absolute and didactic narratives in dominant documentary work, particularly the archived photojournalism and reportage commensurate with Western Media Industries. The work significantly engaged multi-vocal strategies –the photograph, the colloquial, the vernacular text, ultimately exploring the status of image against text, their cohesion and autonomy.\n\nThe work, published by Dewi Lewis, was accompanied by an exhibition first shown at Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool. It subsequently toured to venues in Europe and Asia. Galleries include the Gallery of Photography, Dublin; Gallery 64, Chung Ang, Seoul, Korea. Invitations to lecture and lead seminars around the work were accepted at Harvard University, Boston USA and Fotografie am Schifferbauerdamm, Berlin, Germany. Work from the project was collected by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the National Museum of Canada and private collections.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.014 | 0.012 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.013 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.008 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.008 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".