COLLECTION NAME:
Graduate Thesis Collection
Record
Title:
The Nature of Being: Photography and the Immaterial
Creator:
Fogel, Edith
Subject:
Thesis (M.F.A.) -- Photography
Subject:
Savannah College of Art and Design -- Department of Photography
Rights:
Copyright is retained by the authors or artists of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Abstract:
The nature of light is two-fold. It has characteristics of both a wave and a particle. This
duality shares a metaphorical affinity with the physical and spiritual dimensions of being. This
thesis explores the coexistence of the material and the spiritual, photography’s dual nature both
as a tool for science and for the imagination, and how the camera can evoke the less tangible
aspects of our being. The series of portraits, The Nature of Being, brings together the variable
and unexpected effects of antique tintype with the control and clarity of contemporary color film
to create a synergistic image that references our duality. This duality is further referenced by the
inclusion in the foreground of suspended objects intended to connote aspects of the subjects’
nonmaterial spirit. Process and design choices enhance the painterly feeling of the photographs
and allow them to straddle the boundaries between fact and fiction and to further evoke the
work’s spiritual theme. The bridging of these seeming dualities forms a co-emergence of signs
that suggest the coexistence of our physical and immaterial nature of being.
duality shares a metaphorical affinity with the physical and spiritual dimensions of being. This
thesis explores the coexistence of the material and the spiritual, photography’s dual nature both
as a tool for science and for the imagination, and how the camera can evoke the less tangible
aspects of our being. The series of portraits, The Nature of Being, brings together the variable
and unexpected effects of antique tintype with the control and clarity of contemporary color film
to create a synergistic image that references our duality. This duality is further referenced by the
inclusion in the foreground of suspended objects intended to connote aspects of the subjects’
nonmaterial spirit. Process and design choices enhance the painterly feeling of the photographs
and allow them to straddle the boundaries between fact and fiction and to further evoke the
work’s spiritual theme. The bridging of these seeming dualities forms a co-emergence of signs
that suggest the coexistence of our physical and immaterial nature of being.
Publisher:
Savannah, Georgia : Savannah College of Art and Design
Date:
2012-05
Format:
PDF : 28 p. : ill ; JPG
