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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Fine art photography"”.
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Catherine Opie's Domestic Series
… Opie combines portraiture and documentary photography in her photographic series titled Domestic. At the center of this series lies the idea of community and the question of how community is constructed, a theme which unites Opie’s seemingly disparate bodies of work. Domestic depicts …
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“An American Sun Shines Brighter”: Art, Science, and the American Reinvention of Photography
<p>When and where was photography invented? Received knowledge tells us that a few European men of distinction invented the medium sometime around 1839. This dissertation de-centers this origin story to include the United States, where artisans, chemists, and instrument-makers effectively …
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Camera Mortis: Ethics and Aesthetics in Emmanuel Levinas and Richard Mosse
This thesis examines the purpose of art — specifically, fine art photography — in depicting contemporary conflicts that have resulted in suffering, violence, human rights abuses, and death. The thesis argues that the purpose of such art is not aesthetic. Instead, such art functions as a means to …
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The Photograph As A Site of Mnemonic Return
… psychoanalysis, memory theory, and contemporary art, the research explores inter-relationships between the image, memory and generative or regenerative creative strategies used to reconstitute lost or partial identity narratives. The project is designed to incorporate conversational partners at …
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An Unfolding Voyage: Rephotography and the Challenger Expedition
… a wider public. This practice-led PhD adopts rephotography, a method of taking a photograph from the same vantage point as an existing photographic image, and expands it using participation as a means to reconsider the expedition’s photographs collectively. Centering this research on locations …
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Photography and its failure to represent
This PhD research project examines the agency of photography and the photographic image. The research develops insights into photography as one of the dominant image making, cultural practices in the Twenty-first Century. Its focus is on digital photography and it begins by understanding agency as …