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I Femminiellə: Unearthing Sanctified Queerness, Francesca Stone Houran
I Femminiellə: Unearthing Sanctified Queerness, Francesca Stone Houran
Senior Projects Spring 2023
This project serves as an unearthing, in the figuratively archeological sense, of the religious roots and foundations of queerness, often overlooked in contemporary gender discourses, through the exposing of pre and post-modern queer religious iconography specific to the Neapolitan third-gender community of the femminiellə. Although the femmininellə have origins in a long lineage of non-binary forms and figures throughout global and Italian history, they have been more recently brought to the surface of gender discourses through the avenue of photography, showcased in digital and physical exhibition spaces.
Sisterhood: : Locating The Photography Of Carrie Mae Weems, Latoya Ruby Frazier, And Deana Lawson Within A Rhizome Of Black Feminist Discourse, Taylor Fama Ndiaye
Sisterhood: : Locating The Photography Of Carrie Mae Weems, Latoya Ruby Frazier, And Deana Lawson Within A Rhizome Of Black Feminist Discourse, Taylor Fama Ndiaye
Senior Projects Spring 2022
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.
Picturing Rights, Judging Wrongs: Photography And The Emergence Of Human Rights, Austin Dilley
Picturing Rights, Judging Wrongs: Photography And The Emergence Of Human Rights, Austin Dilley
Senior Projects Spring 2021
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.
The Photogram Now And Then: An Investigation Of Contemporary Photogram Practice, Susan Melissa Andreas
The Photogram Now And Then: An Investigation Of Contemporary Photogram Practice, Susan Melissa Andreas
Senior Projects Spring 2020
My senior thesis is an investigation of contemporary photograms. My thesis is not meant to be a comprehensive study of photograms but rather a look into how specific uses and treatments of it have evolved since its inception in the nineteenth century. A photogram is a photograph made without a camera. The paper begins with a look into nineteenth-century photogram practice to provide general information and context about photograms. The first chapter outlines when the photogram process was invented, who it invented it, how it was used, what its traditional steps were, and what the images looked like. A description …
Some Notes On Congruency, Ryan J. Rusiecki
Some Notes On Congruency, Ryan J. Rusiecki
Senior Projects Spring 2020
Some Notes on Congruency is an examination of the seemingly arbitrary methods in which the built environment facilitates order among its inhabitants (eg., parking lot striping, roadway signs). Asphalt fissures observed at the main intersection in Red Hook, NY were used as a starting off point for making the photographs contained within this book. A lens with a focal length that closely resembles the range of human vision was used to communicate the experience of discovering fissures from my perspective as a pedestrian and motorist. I was most captivated by temporal, subtle fissures, such as the replanting of flower beds …
The Unveiling Of Us, Alexis Parra
The Unveiling Of Us, Alexis Parra
Senior Projects Spring 2018
The Unveiling of Us is an affirmation by, of and for wom^n of color. In this collaboration, we - subject and photographer - seek to reclaim the performance, production and beauty of individual identities that are informed by collective pasts. Everyday acts of performance are emphasized in these images through objects and gestures that reference the day to day practices of black and brown wom^n based on our histories, our cultures and our senses of self. This is our space to claim: the viewer looks, but the subjects hold the gaze as they declare power through a notion of beauty. …
Gender In Contemporary Iran In The Works Of Abbas Kowsari, Domantas Karalius
Gender In Contemporary Iran In The Works Of Abbas Kowsari, Domantas Karalius
Senior Projects Spring 2017
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College
The Phallic Woman: A Reexamination Of The Problematics Of Women And Surrealism, Adrienne Anne Chau
The Phallic Woman: A Reexamination Of The Problematics Of Women And Surrealism, Adrienne Anne Chau
Senior Projects Spring 2017
To see a work by a female surrealist is, perhaps, to see surrealistically. In other words, if the canonical, Western accounts of surrealism are what we are accustomed to, then the act of seeing a work of a woman completely disorients our trained familiarity with the movement, which up until the 1970s was left undisturbed. The principles of the movement, founded on the personal investigation of one’s psyche, lent themselves as an opportunity for the surrealist woman to explore the interior sources of her creative imagination. Visual expression of their self-discovery provided a different perspective of modern woman’s world and …