Calliope,
2014
Georgia Southern University
Art Or Science?,
2014
University of South Carolina - Columbia
Art Or Science?, Allison Marsh
Section 3: Imaging the Fast Moving
No abstract provided.
Edward Steichen And Hollywood Glamour,
2014
University of Kentucky
Edward Steichen And Hollywood Glamour, Alisa Reynolds
Theses and Dissertations--Art and Visual Studies
As a word, glamour is hard to define, but is instantly recognizable. Its association with Hollywood movie stars fully emerged in the 1930s in the close-up celebrity portraits by photographers like George Hurrell. The aesthetic properties in these images that help create glamour are characterized by the Modernist style, known for sharp focus, high contrast, seductive poses, and the close-up (tight framing). My essay will explore the origins of the visual aesthetics of glamour, arguing that their roots can be found in the still life photographs of the 1910s, produced by fine art photographers such as Edward Steichen. This essay …
Disidentified Masculinities,
2014
Scripps College
Disidentified Masculinities, Jacqueline Hope Freedman
Scripps Senior Theses
My capstone is a conversation of the Millennial Generation’s views of individual identity and masculinity, with the hopes of deconstructing the socially constructed and exclusive notions of masculinity by defining a generation’s “common sense.”
My piece is inspired by the portraiture of Chad States in Masculinities (2011) as well as Loren Cameron’s work in Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits (1996). The theoretical basis of my project relies heavily on Antonio Gramsci’s concept of “common sense” as well as José Esteban Muñoz’s disidentification. Common sense refers to an instinctual, “uncritical and largely unconscious way of perceiving and understanding.” It “is a collective …
Gelang: A Photography Of Belonging,
2014
Dominican University of California
Gelang: A Photography Of Belonging, Chase Clow
Collected Faculty Scholarship
Gelang: A Photography of Belonging proposes a new category of landscape photography, one that moves away from emphasis upon imagery of particular kinds of landscape (such as wilderness, topographical, or wastelandscape) and also away from genres of photography (art, documentary, or scientific) and instead investigates the shared values and ethics among landscape and nature photographers and the kinds of awareness and knowledge that arise through outdoor, field-based photographic practice. An analysis of the writings of photographers and their published interviews, as well as the author's own photographic experiences in the field, reveals a common core of life-affirming values predicated on …
The Troublesome Document,
2014
Virginia Commonwealth University
The Troublesome Document, Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa
Theses and Dissertations
An essay concerning the development of documentary photography, its relationship to political norms, conventions of realism in visual culture, and the form of the photographic book.
Best Kept Secret,
2014
University of Richmond
Revealing Your Inner Light - Nicole,
2014
University of Richmond
Revealing Your Inner Light - Nicole, Laura Delprato
The Messenger
No abstract provided.
The Celebration,
2014
University of Richmond
Caye Caulker, Belize,
2014
University of Richmond
Nautical Sunset,
2014
University of Richmond
Hands,
2014
University of Richmond
The Messenger, 2014,
2014
University of Richmond
Remember,
2014
University of Richmond
Spring Sun,
2014
University of Richmond
Trees On The Lake,
2014
University of Richmond
Joshua Tree National Park,
2014
University of Richmond
Technology No Substitute For Video Shooting Skill,
2014
CUNY Bernard M Baruch College
Technology No Substitute For Video Shooting Skill, Aldemaro Romero Jr.
Publications and Research
No abstract provided.
Madison,
2014
Nova Southeastern University
Le Ninfee,
2014
Nova Southeastern University
