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Subverting The Selfie: Analysis Of Cindy Sherman’S Instagram Photos And Untitled Film Stills, Katrina M. Russell
Subverting The Selfie: Analysis Of Cindy Sherman’S Instagram Photos And Untitled Film Stills, Katrina M. Russell
Theses and Dissertations
As a prominent artist of self-portraiture, Cindy Sherman has been captivating audiences and scholars for decades. Recently, some media outlets have begun generalizing all of Sherman's work under the selfie concept using her dual role as model and photographer as the defining factor along with her recent activity on Instagram. In this paper, I argue that characterizing all of Sherman's work as selfies is problematic and inaccurate while illustrating similar themes present in her early Untitled Film Stills series and more recent Instagram photos. First, I start by outlining the fundamental criteria for characterizing a photo as a selfie using …
In-Between Spaces, Trinity Kai
In-Between Spaces, Trinity Kai
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
In-between Spaces is a paper based in personal narrative that uses Critical Race Theory and art to analyze the history of photography and systems of discrimination facilitated by hegemonic culture. Body is at the center as a symbol of the physical and psychological impacts systemic inequalities have on people that are classified as other and how one can be absent and present in institutional and public spaces.
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.