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Ferguson, Elizabeth. "Humans." Pitzer College, 2009. http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/u?/stc,58.

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Kato, Miwako. "Views from Daily Life: A Supporting Paper for a Graduate Exhibition." [Johnson City, Tenn. : East Tennessee State University], 2001. http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/etd/theses/available/etd-0330101-110959/restricted/katoM0501.pdf.

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Mercure, Tammy. "Big Rock Candy Mountain: Photographs of the Great Smoky Mountain Tourist Towns." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2009. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1815.

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The photographer discusses the work in Big Rock Candy Mountain: Photographs from the Great Smoky Mountain Tourist Towns, her Master of Fine Arts exhibition held at the Reece Museum, Johnson City, Tennessee from September 22 to December 18, 2009. The exhibition consists of 17 large-scale color Archival Inkjet Prints edited from a large body of work done in the tourist towns surrounding the Great Smoky Mountains. Topics include the historical and contemporary artistic influences on the work, examining the work of Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Weegee, Martin Parr, and Joel Sternfeld. A short history of

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Torres, Alessandra Lee Michelle. "OUT OF BODY." VCU Scholars Compass, 2006. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/793.

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This thesis explores the evolution of Alessandra Torres's work, from her early performances and installations, to her latest work with surrogate bodies, as she challenges the relationship between artist and their creation, body and object, and audience and art. Examining the work of artists such as Cindy Sherman, Rebecca Horn and Marina Abramovic, Torres explores the transformative capabilities of interactive sculpture and live performance. Join Ms. Torres as she transforms herself into everything from a paintbrush to a serpent, in her ongoing exploration of the body's ability to adapt and evo

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Sauer, Amanda. "Invisible Green." VCU Scholars Compass, 2007. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1387.

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How is nature conceived today, a generation into the environmental movement? Many contemporary artists grapple with how to reconcile our inheritance of both a precarious natural world and the culture that created it. My work investigates the subtle intricacies of our relationship with nature. I use photography to develop a way of seeing that points to the often-unnoticed nature in front of us. In particular, my work recognizes and re-imagines nature's deep connections in the context of our ecologically changed world.

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Ferguson, Elizabeth. "It's important for me to get good light. or "things which are happening"." Pitzer College, 2008. http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/u?/stc,59.

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Turner, Julia J. "Processing Nature." VCU Scholars Compass, 2017. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4697.

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In my artwork, I merge nature with typography. I use macro-level photography to capture details of nature, such as the pistils of a flower or the sensory hairs of an insect. I print enlargements and transfer these photos onto pages of poetic text about nature, or collage them onto canvas. Once transferred, I use multiple media to alter and enhance features of the photos. I intentionally obscure much of the text which allows me to place focus on the overall layout and design. The arrangement of lines of text and spacing of words is used to create a visual rhythm. The poetic script acts as

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Baden, Eric. "The image of the body in the works of Frederick Sommer." [Johnson City, Tenn. : East Tennessee State University], 2003. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/838.

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Thesis (M.F.A.)--East Tennessee State University, 2003.<br>Title from electronic submission form. ETSU ETD database URN: etd-1109103-152208. Includes bibliographical references. Also available via Internet at the UMI web site.

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Dorn, Joseph. "On The Road with the VanLife Community: The Art of Storytelling in the Age of Instagram." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1087.

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This thesis analyzes the countercultural community known as VanLife. Foster Huntington coined the term VanLife in 2011, when he decided to leave his comfortable job at Ralph Lauren and detach from society. Foster and many other individuals have moved into their vans to gain more freedom and live simply. For this thesis I studied the stories about life on the road, written by VanLife participants. I examined their blogs, photographs, and Instagram accounts. I did a literary analysis of Kerouac’s famous Beat novel, On The Road, as well as Steinbeck’s travel memoir, Travels with Charley. I wanted

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Baitz, Steven. "Towards an embodied photographic practice." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2024. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2929.

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This practice-led research examines the nexus between lens-based art, technology and perception, contributing to the established field of multi-image still photography. The culminating examinable public exhibition, Disruptive Immersion, explored the embodied image using multiple exposures as a central practice method. Using the phenomenological lens of Maurice Merleau-Ponty (2012) as a theoretical perspective, this project examines a visceral approach to the sensations of walking, movement, seeing and inhabiting the world through photographic practice. Artist intentionality, an important aspec

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Gustina, Charles F. "Escape Artist." VCU Scholars Compass, 2005. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1494.

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This thesis reviews the background, influences, and evolution of the body of work entitled Folia, which forms the basis for the candidate's thesis exhibition. It traces the development of the candidate's artistic inclinations from drawing to photography. Directorial and Pictorialist photography are discussed as forebears in the Influences chapter. Evolution of the Body of Work details how the current work grew from both the candidate's background and influences. A Brief Anthology of Quotations references Susan Sontag's influential work, On Photography, with quotations that have either infl

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Harper, Stephen Bryce. "Investigations into Social Game Theory." VCU Scholars Compass, 2006. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/812.

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Investigations into Social Game Theory is a document that describes my two-year exploration of the ritual encapsulated in our societal framework. It discusses the thoughts and processes that accompanied the three bodies of work that led to the creation of my final thesis exhibition.

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Ehmann, Christina. "American Splendor." VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4102.

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Artist Statement My photographs and paintings are reflective of a simpler and slower paced, rural life. This focus is in high contrast to what contemporary urban life often requires. I depict scenes of tranquil landscapes, farm animals, old barns, fields of grasses, and growing crops. I alter my digital photographic images with computer software. I use various filters that transform color, clarity, and value to give the photographs of nature an intentionally peaceful mood. These photographs are a basis for my paintings where I soften nature’s contours and emphasize tranquility. My desire

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May, John Edwin. "The McFarlands: "One Season"." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2010. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1719.

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This thesis is in support of the Master of Fine Arts exhibition entitled The McFarlands at East Tennessee State University, Slocumb Galleries, Johnson City, Tennessee, November 5th - 9th, 2007. This artist's photographic survey, which lasted approximately two years, investigated the lifeworld of a family in a rural Appalachian town. His photographic work depicts the subjects working on their farm growing tobacco and their relationships within the family unit. The artist discusses his work in terms of historical and contemporary influences with an emphasis on the relationship to the work of Lew

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Nguyen, Thao Thanh. "Elevating Communication." Scholar Commons, 2010. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/1722.

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The products of vehicular transportation have led the modern traveler into a crisis of place. The modern journey that is held within ceaseless flux, confine movement to edges facilitating prompt passage yet negating active participation. These edges govern movement, highlighting points of destination while simultaneously obscuring our journey in between travels. The limited participation and extended observation of one's place within the concurring boundaries renders the senses dormant, causing passivity and reluctance to participate or communicate with the city. These lines of movement, deman

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Cohen, Jennifer A. "Vantage point: the representation of place and the visual experience." Scripps College, 2010. http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/u?/stc,86.

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We, as human beings, are unique creatures that have a need to form places. This obsession with claiming spaces and turning them into places starts at a young age. Maybe it is the first time a child goes to the park and claims a corner of the sand pit, because they think the sand is better on the right side. Perhaps it is a specific seat in the bleachers a person sits in at every home football game. Or maybe it is much more significant, like the spot on the path by the curved tree, next to the bike shed where you said good-bye to your family the first day of your freshman year in college.

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Cochran, Sharayah. "An Impossible Alternative: Orientalism and Margaret Bourke-White's "A Moneylender's House" (1947)." VCU Scholars Compass, 2015. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3760.

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Between 1946 and 1948, American photographer Margaret Bourke-White traveled to India while on assignments for Life magazine. Since the late 1940s, a photograph from these assignments that depicts three men sitting in an ornately decorated room has appeared in several publications and exhibitions under variations of the title A Moneylender’s House (1947). Though Bourke-White is traditionally categorized as a documentary photojournalist, her photograph exhibits motifs similar to those seen in European Orientalist paintings from the nineteenth century. Considering recent scholarship that has expa

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Brown, Christopher Shawne. "Exegesis." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2008. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1903.

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The photographer discusses the work in Exegesis, his Master of Fine Arts exhibition held at Slocumb Galleries, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee from October 29 through November 2, 2007. The exhibition consists of 19 large format color photographs representing and edited from a body of work that visually negotiates the photographer's home in East Tennessee. The formulation of a web of influence is explored with a focus on artists who continue to pertain to Brown's work formally and conceptually. Included are photographers Eugene Atget, Walker Evans, William Eggleston, an

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Levacy, Megan Renee. "Eulogy." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1265.

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The artist discusses the search for identity which underlies her Master of Fine Arts exhibition, Eulogy, hosted by the Carroll Reece Museum on the campus of East Tennessee Sate University, Johnson City, Tennessee, from March 8 to May 6, 2011. This exhibit contains works which explore the artist's relationship with the natural world, ornithology, philosophy, psychology, poetry, and related personal influences. The artist's thesis work consists of paintings, drawings, and photographs. The artist references her own investigation of poetry, philosophy, psychology, and personal history which have s

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Comparetto, Heather. "The Bed as Object and Metaphor." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5170.

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This series of work explores the nature of the bed as object and metaphor. The bed is an object where an action, such as thinking and laying awake takes place. In a metaphorical sense, the bed in my work represents moods and emotions that are psychologically tied to the bed. In this body of work I explore the relationship between the person and the bed. The bed represents not only an intimate space, but also a hiding place of retreat and self-imposed alienation. This series pulls from personal experience, influences such as Alison Brady and Sophie Callie, and select films that focus on the

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Minek, Joseph. "Some Account of the Art of Photogenic Drawing." VCU Scholars Compass, 2013. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/2994.

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This thesis is an overview of the processes and procedures used in the production of my artistic practice. In my work, I explore notions such as the ambiguity of the photographic image, what constitutes an image or object as photographic, and the unexplored possibilities of the medium through surface and mark making. In addition, I draw inspiration from artists Wolfgang Tillmans, William Henry Fox Talbot, and Marco Breuer as entrance points to my conceptual interests. For viewers, my work generates an internal dialogue about the limits of the photographic medium.

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Gorham, Elizabeth Trabue. "Boundaries." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1395.

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The photographer discusses the work in Boundaries, her Master of Fine Arts exhibition on display at Slocumb Galleries, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee from October 31 to November 4, 2011. The exhibition consists of 20 black and white photographs, the main subject of which is the photographer's son. The photographs and supporting thesis explore the idea of boundaries real and implied, and how confinement can prompt a variety of behaviors. Topics include the process and evolution of the work and the artists who have influenced it, the importance of light and the challeng

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Petzwinkler, Thomas. "Behind the Fire Line." VCU Scholars Compass, 2004. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd_retro/121.

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BEHIND THE FIRE LINEA thesis submitted in partial fulfillment for the degree of Master of Fine Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University, 2004. Major Director: Jim Long, Department Chair. Behind the Line of Fire is a documentary of the professional lives of a group of firefighters. Inspired by the events of September 11th, it has been an ongoing journey for me as I continue to interact with an photograph these individuals doing the job that they live for. My goal for this project has been to work within the guidelines of a documentary, a genre that has a rich, diverse, and defined history.

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Wiedeman, Christopher William. "The Carnal Slip." VCU Scholars Compass, 2006. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd_retro/167.

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The thesis exhibit installed at VCU's Anderson Gallery was carried out using still imagery (a photograph), moving imagery (recorded video, live video), constructed objects and a delineated space. It was an experiment dealing with how one comes to know the world by virtue of one's physical activity within it. It was most importantly a work that required the viewer's participation in order to become "complete".

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Litvak, Violetta. "In the Theater of Subjectivity." VCU Scholars Compass, 2008. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1392.

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This thesis tracks the formal and conceptual development of my work during the two years of graduate study at the VCU Photography and Film Department. It describes the influence of photography on my evolution as an artist and contextualizes my desire to expand the practice beyond the traditional limitations of the medium. It recounts my experimentations with assemblage, video and installation and their contribution to my understanding of spatial and temporal dimensions in the formal construction of my work.In part, the thesis is also a statement of my convictions about art making. It discusses

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Bryant, Ursula Moore. "Tolerance: Challenge, Perception, and Social Stigmas Defined through Visual Communications." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2007. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2095.

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My explorations and journey through life have led me to discover a connection in my work and responsibility as a visual communicator. My objective of communicating challenge, perception, and social stigmas through informed stories of individual lives is to provoke questions and spark moments of awareness in viewers. With this supporting manuscript, I hope to inform about my motivations through time including my personal, artistic, and historical influences. I will define graphic design as a fine art through the evaluation of artistic movements. I also intend to discuss design as a language and

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Nienass, Sherri. "The Fabricated Shopping Experience: An Impersonal Impression on Consumerism." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5356.

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I have a compulsion to document my surroundings. I do this in all forms possible; through a picture text-message, a point-and-shoot camera, or through a high end camera. Like most women in contemporary society, I feel an expectation to be gorgeous. While I do not feel this pressure directly from my boyfriend or close friends, I am constantly surrounded by advertisements for beauty products enforcing the importance of being attractive. My current occupation as a cosmetic counter makeup artist relies on convincing women to enhance their appearance. I am fascinated by how easily I can persua

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Rafferty, Eileen N. "Jimmy Hit His First Home Run." VCU Scholars Compass, 2006. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/958.

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This document begins with the end of a life and ends with the beginning of hope. It is a brief description of the artist's history, artistic and literary influences, and subsequent works produced during graduate school, specifically Dichotomy, Swan Dive, and Jimmy Hit His First Home Run. Topics discussed include Human Physiology, Transference, Buddhism, and Bubbles. This document was created in Microsoft Word 2004 for Mac, Version 11.2.

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Howard, Justin K. "The Barbershop: a photographic documentation and exhibition." VCU Scholars Compass, 2006. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/854.

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In this project I explore the environment that surrounds and frames my life experiences. Interests in form, architecture, vernacular typographyand community blend into a photographic documentationcommunicating my perceptual experience of Richmond barbershops through public exhibition.

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Davis, Alissa Grace. "Des Perdues: The Precariousness of Loss." VCU Scholars Compass, 2008. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1295.

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The majority of losses that take place in a day are not large, or sad, they are built almost entirely on behaviors and systems that have nothing to do with loss. Most of these, I discovered, are the result of deliberate carelessness. The word loss is as difficult to define as truth, but its variation is what makes it so interesting and evocative. It is not, and never has been, a definition of loss that I seek: it is not enough to simply say I lost this person or that place, we must consider what is left and what can still be lost. I am interested in the moments of transition that surround loss

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Alvarez, Guido Esteban. "Soul Hunting." VCU Scholars Compass, 2004. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1069.

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According to the Webster's unabridged dictionary, a mania is an excessively intense enthusiasm, interest, or desire; a craze. I experience a mania on a daily basis: I take photographs. I trap photographs inside flat, airless fish tanks where time stands still. The creatures captured inside the tanks resurrect every time I see them to remind me of a sound, an odor, a flavor, and, ultimately, a feeling I once experienced and now cherish. This project will attempt to show the energy captured in my photographic archives as a journey through my memories using an experimental interactive method.

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Wampler, Carson A. "Ideas of space." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2007. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1051.

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This item is only available in print in the UCF Libraries. If this is your Honors Thesis, you can help us make it available online for use by researchers around the world by following the instructions on the distribution consent form at http://library.ucf.edu/Systems/DigitalInitiatives/DigitalCollections/InternetDistributionConsentAgreementForm.pdf You may also contact the project coordinator, Kerri Bottorff, at kerri.bottorff@ucf.edu for more information.<br>Bachelors<br>Arts and Humanities<br>Art

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Mccall, Jennifer Danielle. "Renegotiating Identities, Cultures and Histories: Oppositional Looking in Shelley Niro's "This Land is Mime Land"." Scholar Commons, 2012. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4149.

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My master's thesis explores the photographic series "This Land is Mime Land," which Shelley Niro made in 1992. Despite this work's complex form and structure, there are currently no sustained studies of this series alone, or books solely dedicated to Niro's art. Instead, "Mime Land" is often discussed in compilations that address a number of Native artists, Western feminist practices, or multiple works in Niro's oeuvre. My thesis fills this gap, as I closely investigate how "Mime Land" asks the viewer to look at visual culture, histories and Niro herself. Bell hooks's definition of the "op

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MacDonald, Kelsey M. "Apparent Fate, 2010: Dismantling the Notion of Photographic Truth." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2010. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/18.

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When creating a current work, artists cannot ignore the images that have preceded theirs. The history of a medium and the related history of subject matter is vital to the meaning of a new art work. Each sign and symbol has a connotation out of the artists’ control. The developed meaning of a symbol is inseparable for the viewer regardless of the acknowledgment of that meaning by the artist. To work with imagery and not address it’s historical context is to perpetuate it’s meaning. The only way to not state what has already been stated is to critically engage with the preexisting meaning of t

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Nuss, Patricia Lois. "The individual behind the image female idols in their various forms." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2011. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4997.

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The research investigated the artistic and photographic processes corresponding with two studies motivated by the artist's personal history and focused on the role, affect, and history of various female idols represented in art, religion, and modern American popular media. The first part of the study documented female models as they were simultaneously asked by the artist to think of a range of personal but nonspecific moments from her life, the women were asked not to share their thoughts, only the moment spent thinking, with the artist. The second part of the study documented aspiring models

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Lieb, Michelle. "The Enduring Image." VCU Scholars Compass, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10156/1500.

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Kozlowski, Andrew. "Would You Believe Me If I Said I Didn't Need You." VCU Scholars Compass, 2007. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/954.

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This thesis is an attempt to expand upon the ideas that permeate the practice of art making that has developed over the past two years. Art criticism, theory, history, and practice are used to give definition to the boundaries of my ever-shifting body of work. Focusing on the elusive nature of communication in both public and private spheres, these projects range from installation and sculptural work, to web projects, photography, and drawing.

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Karlsson, Gabriella. "The Social Media Muse." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23195.

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The social media influencer is becoming a prominent trope in contemporary media culture. In her Instagram performance artwork Excellences & Perfections, Amalia Ulman imitated the content and lifestyle of different types of influencers for five months in 2014, gaining attention and inciting controversy when she finally revealed her hoax. She captured problematic aspects of performativity online, examined how it related to tropes and myths in our culture, and ultimately to our sense of identity. By analysing images from her work and comments from her followers at the time, this thesis aims to un

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Harney, Sara. "Catherine Opie's Domestic Series." VCU Scholars Compass, 2013. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/471.

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American photographer Catherine Opie combines portraiture and documentary photography in her photographic series titled Domestic. At the center of this series lies the idea of community and the question of how community is constructed, a theme which unites Opie’s seemingly disparate bodies of work. Domestic depicts lesbians from across the United States in scenes of domesticity, living as couples, families, and housemates. Using formal portrait conventions to aestheticize the images, Opie photographed her subjects in and around their actual homes to create images that are documentary in ess

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Lease, Michael K. "Posthumous." VCU Scholars Compass, 2005. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/651.

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This thesis reviews the background, influences, and evolution of three works that form Posthumous, an exhibit by the thesis candidate. The thesis begins with a series of vignettes that relate a number of personal experiences involving death, and photography, which have influenced the conceptual development of the work. Chapters devoted to each piece follow the vignettes. These chapters refer to the various influences that have led to the development of the following works: Obit to Self: April 10, 2005, Posthumous, and Jay. These influences range from the movie Hotel Rwanda, to handbills for pu

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Urban, Margaret Mary. "Flight Signs, Flight Symbols." VCU Scholars Compass, 2005. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/956.

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I am investigating the significance of historic events of flight through image making; particularly incidents that captured the collective imagination and became part of our cultural memory. These events have surpassed mere entries in historical texts and become mythic. In the terms of Jungian psychology, they have become symbolic. In terms of Semiotics, they have become signs. Through photographs and installation, I seek to understand their presence in my, and our, unconscious mind.

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McLeod, Carmen Alis. "In an Expression of the Inexpressible: Even this title is stolen, but I chose it." VCU Scholars Compass, 2008. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/916.

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This thesis provides a tour through an imaginary building that contains the work I have completed in the last two years at Virginia Commonwealth University. The body of the text provides a discussion of specific paintings as well as more general themes related to painting and art. The discussion includes thoughts on futility, desire, schism, the leap, collage, photography, materiality, painting, image, and landscape. The second part of the text is an abstract statement about the paintings included in the thesis show, Splinter Paintings.

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Inocentes, Francesca Louise. "[REBELUTION 17]: Gender Bender." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/950.

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Fashion embodies what is accepted and valued in a given culture or society and empowers individuals by building self-confidence, enabling them to express themselves authentically through their bodies and garments. The gender binary, perpetuated by the mainstream fashion industry, marginalizes individuals who do not conform to it. In Rebelution 17, I utilize clothing design and photography to empower and liberate individuals who do not conform to the standards of beauty in regards to gender identity and acceptability. The finished works are featured in a Lookbook – a digital and physical collec

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Garvey, Carrie Rosicky. "Foliage and Fabrication." VCU Scholars Compass, 2006. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/664.

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In my photographic work, I contrast natural and man-made objects abstracted by manipulation of scale. Details of the objects are blown up to proportions larger than life. By distorting the scale, I aim to allow the audience to view the image out of context, enabling the viewer to see it for its aesthetic value rather than the object's functional purpose.

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Rocheleau, Shane Robert. "Within and Without." VCU Scholars Compass, 2007. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1186.

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Within and Without is a document which illustrates my personal and artistic research into the nature of the postmodern conception of the self: that self is unfixed, multiple, and reactive. It explicates my myriad and explorative approaches to photographic portraiture. Furthermore, it indicates many of my theoretical and artistic references and how I have applied my lessons both as an artist and a researcher to maximize the effect of my concepts within the formal and aesthetic confines of my photographs. Finally, this document explains my own beliefs concerning the nature of self and how a

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Vaughters, Amy Lillian. "Delineated Space." VCU Scholars Compass, 2007. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd_retro/58.

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This document is a detailed description of the work produced throughout my graduate study in the Department of Photography and Film at VCU. Topics discussed in relation my photographic process include: stage, memory, character, the forgotten, and nostalgia.

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Appleby, Nellie Helen Frances. "Toward a New Kinship Constellation." VCU Scholars Compass, 2007. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1085.

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This thesis attempts to elaborate on my artwork during my graduate studies, while contextualizing it within the framework of the art world and the works of other artists. A main project during this time was to minimize the singular interpretation and framing of a fine art photographic print, while expanding its possibilities of meaning through the addition of important ephemera and objects such as plants, drawings, moving imagery, conversation and the unknown.

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Park, Hyejin. "A Sense of Place: A Personal Exploration, Analysis and Re-interpretation of Diverse Places." VCU Scholars Compass, 2009. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1929.

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Every city/place has unique, distinctive qualities. Individuals acquire a sense of place in accordance with their own experiences and perspectives, which may not be the same as the experiences and viewpoints of another person. In this project, I explore, analyze, and re-interpret three places that have creatively and emotionally influenced me and remained in my memory: Times Square, New York City; Insadong, Seoul, South Korea; and Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia. To comprehend and draw a sense of place, I observe, feel, and document the characteristics of each place through different methods

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Coltelloni, Anne. "Le documentaire comme forme symbolique." Phd thesis, Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris III, 2009. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00812350.

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L'étude sur le documentaire a suscité ces dernières années de nombreuses approches : historique, rhétorique, pragmatique, stylistique. Celles-ci posent la question de la réalité dans le film ou dans la photographie, problématique récurrente du documentaire. C'est à nouveau cette interrogation qui sera abordée dans cette recherche. La perspective envisagée a l'ambition de synthétiser toutes ces approches en remontant à l'origine de la photographie, au dix-neuvième siècle, et en faisant valoir sa spécificité d'image. Un parcours photographique est proposé montrant en quoi l'image photographique

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Iacovone, Michael Dax. "Memories We Forget." VCU Scholars Compass, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10156/1875.

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