COLLECTION NAME:
Graduate Thesis Collection
Record
Title:
"Objet Fatale"
Creator:
Haji agha bozorgi, Mona
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:
"Through deliberate, photo-sculptural visual strategies, I reveal the possibility to
change (or at least interrogate) the epidemic formula of narrowly objectifying
representations of female identity. By operating simultaneously on multiple levels of
social, cultural, and political complexities, I employ the transformative power of
photography to continually shift the register of portrayal between the subject and
object-hood of the feminine. 'Objet Fatale' re-invests women’s bodies with layered,
complex, frustratingly ambiguous, and rich meaning to empower women, not to
reduce them to simple objects of desire."
change (or at least interrogate) the epidemic formula of narrowly objectifying
representations of female identity. By operating simultaneously on multiple levels of
social, cultural, and political complexities, I employ the transformative power of
photography to continually shift the register of portrayal between the subject and
object-hood of the feminine. 'Objet Fatale' re-invests women’s bodies with layered,
complex, frustratingly ambiguous, and rich meaning to empower women, not to
reduce them to simple objects of desire."
Abstract:
Includes exhibition photographs
Abstract:
Keywords: photography, materiality, photo-sculpture, female objectification, post-colonialism, neo-orientalism, representation, feminism, identity
Publisher:
Savannah, Georgia : Savannah College of Art and Design
Date:
2018-05
Format:
PDF-1 (thesis) : 32 pages, color illustrations + PDF-2 (photographs) : unpaged, color
