COLLECTION NAME:
Graduate Thesis Collection
Record
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."
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
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
