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From Disconnect To Connect: How To Critique The Objectification Of Animals Through My Photography, Gaoyuan Pan
From Disconnect To Connect: How To Critique The Objectification Of Animals Through My Photography, Gaoyuan Pan
Graduate School of Art Theses
In this thesis, my photography deals with the long history of objectification of animals in Western culture and philosophy. Aristotle started this objectification because he considered animals were born for human consumption. Later, Descartes finalized this objectification by separating humans from animals. This objectification is still central to the global capitalist system, which consumes animals as an industrial product. Through presenting a documentary of dead or dying animal bodies with black and white photography, I challenge the legitimacy of using animals as products and present the injustice treatment of animal bodies under this objectification. Furthermore, this objectification allows humans to …