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Passing Through: An Installation of PhotographyHunter, Natalie January 2013 (has links)
Passing Through, an installation of photography, encourages the nature of memory through an engagement with the materiality of photographic images. Considering memory as an ephemeral phenomenon, I am interested in exploring the emotional and psychological affects that images have on the body and mind. Strategies of collecting and tracing are employed as a means of forming connections between people, places, materials, objects, and images. Recounting personal history, storytelling and participating in the immediate present, I actively seek out images as a means for re-experiencing memory. Triggers reveal themselves during the collection and deconstruction of both personal and found photographic material. Re-assembling this information produces an archive consisting of real and re-imagined fragments of spaces and narratives. Together, these processes produce a body of work that considers the image as an experiential entity that is inherently memory based; triggering memory to create an emotive response in the viewer.
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Art and Dance: Sediments, Segments, and MovementSaraogi, Avantika 01 April 2013 (has links)
Art and Dance: Sediments, Segments, and Movement (A&D) is a series of photographs that studies dance movement, with the added element of flour to exaggerate and exhibit motion. A&D captures the different styles of dance out of their usual context, so that the actual movement becomes the central focus. This paper on the other hand provides the academic foundation for the artwork. It traces the history of dance photography as a genre. It not only sheds light on the photographic techniques that were used, but also how dance photography has evolved as an art form in its own right. The paper also presents my inspiration for the project and explains how those sources have influenced my images.
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The Benefit of the Doubt: Regarding the Photographic Conditions of Conceptual Art, 1966-1973Diack, Heather 05 September 2012 (has links)
This dissertation offers a reconsideration of the uses of photography under the aegis of Conceptual Art between 1966 and 1973 by analyzing the ways photography challenged epistemological limits, and, despite the claims regarding the medium’s inherent indexicality, emphasized experience over exactitude, and doubt in place of certainty. By focusing on four American practitioners, I argue for the “benefit of the doubt;” in other words, for the value of disbelief and hesitation, marking the reorientation of art at this time towards critical methods which oppose all orthodoxies, including but not limited to formalist dogmas, and instead are committed to the denial of autonomy in favor of understanding meaning as infinitely contingent. The dissertation is divided among four key case studies, including Mel Bochner (n. 1940), Bruce Nauman (n. 1941), Douglas Huebler (1924-1997), and John Baldessari (n. 1931). Each chapter argues for the unique contribution of photography in relation to conceptual art practices, while also situating the projects of these individual practitioners within the broader history of the medium of photography. I explore specifically the concepts of seriality, transparency and theory in Bochner; performance, “worklessness,” and failure in Nauman; portraiture, mapping and impossibility in Huebler; humor, didacticism, choice and chance in Baldessari. This project looks back continuously to significant precursors, in particular the work of Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), as a means of engaging the status and function of art after the Readymade, particularly as concerns de-skilling, disinterest, affirmative irony, and nominalism, as well as the dialectic between inclusivity and inconclusivity.
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Shame is an exposureSmith, Tiffany Terelle 14 November 2005
If everything human is pathetic, being a kind of sorrow packaged in humor, then I am fascinated with making artwork about the human condition that breeches pathos and hilarity. I propose to trace my motivation and research that have coalesced to create this thesis exhibition, shame is an exposure, to contemporary discourse regarding abject art. The motivation behind this exhibition seats itself in narratives excorsizing my own neurosis regarding intimacy, exposure, and shame. Through the exploration of photography and sculpture installation, using found objects, abject narratives spring into surreal life in a magic sort of realism. These works bear witness to uncanny, abstracted, spaces highlighting real human pathos, and vulnerability.
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The Benefit of the Doubt: Regarding the Photographic Conditions of Conceptual Art, 1966-1973Diack, Heather 05 September 2012 (has links)
This dissertation offers a reconsideration of the uses of photography under the aegis of Conceptual Art between 1966 and 1973 by analyzing the ways photography challenged epistemological limits, and, despite the claims regarding the medium’s inherent indexicality, emphasized experience over exactitude, and doubt in place of certainty. By focusing on four American practitioners, I argue for the “benefit of the doubt;” in other words, for the value of disbelief and hesitation, marking the reorientation of art at this time towards critical methods which oppose all orthodoxies, including but not limited to formalist dogmas, and instead are committed to the denial of autonomy in favor of understanding meaning as infinitely contingent. The dissertation is divided among four key case studies, including Mel Bochner (n. 1940), Bruce Nauman (n. 1941), Douglas Huebler (1924-1997), and John Baldessari (n. 1931). Each chapter argues for the unique contribution of photography in relation to conceptual art practices, while also situating the projects of these individual practitioners within the broader history of the medium of photography. I explore specifically the concepts of seriality, transparency and theory in Bochner; performance, “worklessness,” and failure in Nauman; portraiture, mapping and impossibility in Huebler; humor, didacticism, choice and chance in Baldessari. This project looks back continuously to significant precursors, in particular the work of Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), as a means of engaging the status and function of art after the Readymade, particularly as concerns de-skilling, disinterest, affirmative irony, and nominalism, as well as the dialectic between inclusivity and inconclusivity.
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Portraits of a Landscape & The Trouble With EdenSorbara, ginger January 2007 (has links)
If there was ever a question about the subject of this work, I had
only to return to the landscape. There was a strangness, a newness,
an inevitability to those urban spaces around the city that insisted on
my attention. Those landscape, often called suburban, of subdivision
homes, strip plazas, malls and big box stores, of arterial roadways and
parking lots, ascendant since the middle of the twentieth century, have
overwhelmed their host cities and now claimed urban dominance in
North America.
My interest in the sprawl landscapes started with the homes
that occupy them. Sprawl is made up mostly of housing. The essence
of this circumferential city of sprawling growth is the home. If there
is a unifying element in the wildly-different suburbs built over the
last two centuries, it is that they are wrought on the foundation of the
suburban home. The idea of the home as centre of the suburb didn’t
take root until after the war, when the lack of affordable housing
became a matter of national concern. In Redesigning the American
Dream: The Future of Housing, Work, and Family Life, Dolores
Hayden argued that by the 1950s, the American suburban house had
become a private utopia. The home -- something separate from its
neighbours and separate from its community, an ideal in and of itself
- is both the beginning and the essence of sprawl. In 1950 the average
size of a new home was 800 square feet, 1,500 in 1970, 2,190 in
19981. The home as a symbol of the American, Canadian, indeed the
industrialized dream, took hold in the-postwar environment and bore
the offspring we call sprawl.
Although the sprawl landscape is inextricably connected to
the single family home, it has evolved into a post industrial cityscape,
a place that is in fact, but not in feel, urban. What is the nature of this
strange place? How and why does it differ from the industrial urban
landscape? And what are the phenomena that propel the building of
this place.
I set out to understand this landscape by looking for its proponents,
but in the end couldn’t fi nd any. I didn’t talk to anyone - see, hear,
or read anything - that explained the changes in the landscape as a
function of an urban ideology or even a choice. Duany Plater-Zyberk
argue that “[w]e live today in cities and suburbs whose form andcharacter we did not choose. They were imposed upon us, by federal
policy, local zoning laws, and the demands of the automobile2”. Most
of the literature - books, websites, government and non government
studies - bemoan the expansion of the sprawl landscape, and criticize
our inability to plan our way out of it. The sprawl landscape, the
landscape characterized in large part by the subdivided tract homes is,
virtually, without a social or cultural advocate. It is a place that seems
to have been built for everyone, without anyone advocating on its
behalf.
From homes to highways, the landscape, whose photographs make
up this work, was for me, the discovery of a place with which I was
almost too familiar to see. The images bear witness to the changing
urban condition; they are a documentation of our rural spaces as they
are annexed by the sprawl that, like a wave, has rolled over virtually
every major city in North America.
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Portraits of a Landscape & The Trouble With EdenSorbara, ginger January 2007 (has links)
If there was ever a question about the subject of this work, I had
only to return to the landscape. There was a strangness, a newness,
an inevitability to those urban spaces around the city that insisted on
my attention. Those landscape, often called suburban, of subdivision
homes, strip plazas, malls and big box stores, of arterial roadways and
parking lots, ascendant since the middle of the twentieth century, have
overwhelmed their host cities and now claimed urban dominance in
North America.
My interest in the sprawl landscapes started with the homes
that occupy them. Sprawl is made up mostly of housing. The essence
of this circumferential city of sprawling growth is the home. If there
is a unifying element in the wildly-different suburbs built over the
last two centuries, it is that they are wrought on the foundation of the
suburban home. The idea of the home as centre of the suburb didn’t
take root until after the war, when the lack of affordable housing
became a matter of national concern. In Redesigning the American
Dream: The Future of Housing, Work, and Family Life, Dolores
Hayden argued that by the 1950s, the American suburban house had
become a private utopia. The home -- something separate from its
neighbours and separate from its community, an ideal in and of itself
- is both the beginning and the essence of sprawl. In 1950 the average
size of a new home was 800 square feet, 1,500 in 1970, 2,190 in
19981. The home as a symbol of the American, Canadian, indeed the
industrialized dream, took hold in the-postwar environment and bore
the offspring we call sprawl.
Although the sprawl landscape is inextricably connected to
the single family home, it has evolved into a post industrial cityscape,
a place that is in fact, but not in feel, urban. What is the nature of this
strange place? How and why does it differ from the industrial urban
landscape? And what are the phenomena that propel the building of
this place.
I set out to understand this landscape by looking for its proponents,
but in the end couldn’t fi nd any. I didn’t talk to anyone - see, hear,
or read anything - that explained the changes in the landscape as a
function of an urban ideology or even a choice. Duany Plater-Zyberk
argue that “[w]e live today in cities and suburbs whose form andcharacter we did not choose. They were imposed upon us, by federal
policy, local zoning laws, and the demands of the automobile2”. Most
of the literature - books, websites, government and non government
studies - bemoan the expansion of the sprawl landscape, and criticize
our inability to plan our way out of it. The sprawl landscape, the
landscape characterized in large part by the subdivided tract homes is,
virtually, without a social or cultural advocate. It is a place that seems
to have been built for everyone, without anyone advocating on its
behalf.
From homes to highways, the landscape, whose photographs make
up this work, was for me, the discovery of a place with which I was
almost too familiar to see. The images bear witness to the changing
urban condition; they are a documentation of our rural spaces as they
are annexed by the sprawl that, like a wave, has rolled over virtually
every major city in North America.
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Shame is an exposureSmith, Tiffany Terelle 14 November 2005 (has links)
If everything human is pathetic, being a kind of sorrow packaged in humor, then I am fascinated with making artwork about the human condition that breeches pathos and hilarity. I propose to trace my motivation and research that have coalesced to create this thesis exhibition, shame is an exposure, to contemporary discourse regarding abject art. The motivation behind this exhibition seats itself in narratives excorsizing my own neurosis regarding intimacy, exposure, and shame. Through the exploration of photography and sculpture installation, using found objects, abject narratives spring into surreal life in a magic sort of realism. These works bear witness to uncanny, abstracted, spaces highlighting real human pathos, and vulnerability.
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The Girl in the PaintingKiel, Emily Lauren 2011 December 1900 (has links)
The work presented in this thesis explores the idea of embracing, interpreting, and utilizing preexisting art work as source material for new investigations that address the changing relevance of appropriation and self-portraiture in today's culture. By recreating these paintings with photography, 'mistakes' in the form of conflicting perspectives, multiple viewpoints, and impossible lighting situations were discovered and addressed. In addition, RGB levels and color channels for both the original image and the recreated photograph were analyzed to compare overall brightness and bright spots. The photographs in this series provide new insights into the emotional content of paintings throughout the vast range of art history by placing one's self into the metaphorical shoes of 'the girl in the painting.'
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O teatro da sociedade-fotografia e distinção socialPinheiro, Nuno de Avelar January 2002 (has links)
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