Detail View: Graduate Thesis Collection: Transcriptions: Indices from the Earth

Title: 
Transcriptions: Indices from the Earth
Creator: 
Schmidt, Kyra
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: 
"This thesis situates the return to camera less imagery, a current trend in contemporary art, as a valuable way to connect a photograph’s meaning and appearance with its technique and subject matter. The work questions what a photograph can be by examining how we consciously experience its tactile qualities and how we interact with and have subjective responses to an image’s materiality. By outlining philosophical and theoretical interpretations that can be applied to photographic experience, this thesis makes two main assertions: that representational conventions in imagery can restrict artistic truths, and that photography, as a performative practice, can open up new relations between us and the world. Here, images created in and of the landscape offer a raw, primal, and rooted aesthetic experience of place."
Abstract: 
Includes the author-photographer's film and series of photographs representing her personal aesthetic
Abstract: 
Keywords: cameraless, materiality, landscape, place, non-representational, earth, Heidegger
Publisher: 
Savannah, Georgia : Savannah College of Art and Design
Date: 
2017-05
Format: 
1 text file : PDF, 36 pages, color illustrations + 1 film : WMV, sound, color + 17 images : JPG, color