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Dominican University of California

Mirror Images: Leses of Reflection

Abstract

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<p>My culminating thesis is a combination of my own creative work in black and white photography along with research and writing on the topic of “reflections’’ in selected examples from art history. My photography is a two year culmination of working in the dark room, developing and printing, through the use of traditional techniques, a series of thirty-five images that relate to my research on “reflections” as an art historical subject. This photographic study examines the theme of reflections through the use of light: sunlight, mirrors, metal, glass and water. My written thesis discusses the seventeenth century Dutch and Flemish masters and their influence on French painter Jean Bapiste Simeon Chardin (1699-1779) of the eighteenth century. It also considers several twentieth century black and white photographers, Imogen Cunningham (1883-1976), Edward Weston (1886-1958) and Irving Penn (1917-2009), whose still life works, as well as my own, focus on the theme oi “reflections.</p>

Degree

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Name thesis:degree_name
Master of Arts
Level thesis:degree_level
Master's Thesis
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Humanities
Year
2012

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Weitzman, Chyah
Contributors dc:contributor
  • Leslie Ross, PhD
  • Lynn Sondag, MFA

Subjects

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Identifiers

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OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:scholar.dominican.edu:humanities-print-theses-1293

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2026-07-24
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citation

Weitzman, Chyah. Mirror Images: Leses of Reflection. Master's Thesis thesis, 2012. https://scholar.dominican.edu/humanities-print-theses/294