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Inner Sound: Contemporary Abstract Photography In The Wet-Plate Collodion Process, Brian Barger
Inner Sound: Contemporary Abstract Photography In The Wet-Plate Collodion Process, Brian Barger
Masters Theses, 2010-2019
My work is Neo-Romantic in nature. This description implies a rejection of all that is tedious, mundane, and ugly in the modern world, in favor of looking to history, nostalgia, and mystery for inspiration. I intend for the work to be dreamlike and evocative of fantasy, to be poetic rather than prosaic, and to be beautiful rather than purposeful.
To this end, I am investigating abstraction in photography through the use of the wet-plate collodion process. The work is intended to reference spirituality and the subconscious, through the use of the abstraction of nature and natural forms, using the inherent …