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Steel Samba:A Tale of Four Bridges Connecting a City

Abstract

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<p>Steel Samba is a photographic mosaic exploration of four lift bridges connecting the east and west sides of Joliet, Illinois. Using the artist influence of Claude Monet’s 1872 image Le Pont de bois (the wooden bridge), I have created digital images of these bridges from many different views. The purpose of this series is to focus on these bridges: their history; their beauty; and how they move in sync to raise for waterway traffic almost in a dance formation.</p>

Degree

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Name thesis:degree_name
Master of Fine Arts
Level thesis:degree_level
Thesis
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Independent Film and Digital Imaging
Year dc:date.available
2017

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • McCallum, Ruqayyah Jaami’
Contributors dc:contributor
  • Beth Parin, M.F.A.
  • Daniel Nearing, M.F.A.
  • Cherise Stone, Ph.D.

Subjects

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Identifiers

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Repository record dc:identifier
https://opus.govst.edu/theses/95
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:opus.govst.edu:theses-1097

Chain of custody

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2026-07-24
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citation

McCallum, Ruqayyah Jaami’. Steel Samba:A Tale of Four Bridges Connecting a City. Thesis thesis, 2017. https://opus.govst.edu/theses/95