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Thesis Outline 25 Oct 17

What is the thesis going to be about?

My thesis will consist of personal stories, encounters and experiences with photography and the (miss)representation that happens when they reach a public audience. I am interested to see how the photographs intention changes after publication and how the truth it carries will be misinterpreted. Can this truth be supported if the photograph was not singular? If people had more contextual information of how/why the photograph was made and what its intentions were – one might start to see truth in a medium that is still considered to be the one that represents the truth even though photographer/spectators alike know how one can never trust a photograph? I believe that this disconnection can be diminished if one find evidence of its truth, one photograph supported by another. One memory giving life to another.

One such story will be about my first experience with the photographic medium and what that single image represented publicly and privately. Another story will be about photography and the creation of memory, what they represent and how they are misrepresented. These stories will determine how a photograph can represent truth and how it changes from a private to a public audience. If the photograph can stand alone or if it need support by other photographs or texts to find out what was happening outside of the frame.

I want to research this topic based on a personal experience with the naked body in a private photograph and how it was misrepresented once it went public.

Relation to previous research?

This has been a part of my research from the last semester at PZI, after writing, photographing, collecting images from archives – I have come to want to understand on a deeper level how the image is seen in a private and/or public eye. To determine if the personal stories/memories behind serve any purpose, what goes on outside of the frame.

Bibliography

On Photography – Susan Sontag

Visual Culture – Nicholas Mirzoeff (Chapter 6,10)

John Berger – Ways of Seeing

Thesis Outline 4 Oct 17

What is the thesis going to be about?

My thesis will consist of personal stories and experiences with photography and the misrepresentation that happens when they reach a wider audience. I believe that this disconnection can be reversed if one find evidence of its story, one photograph supported by another. One memory giving life to another. One such story will be about my first experience with the human body and the photograph and what it represented publicly and privately. Another story will be about photography and the creation of memory, what they represent and how they are misrepresented. These stories will determine how a photograph can represent truth and how it changes from a private to a public audience. If the photograph can stand alone or if it need support by other photographs or texts to find out what was happening outside of the frame.

Relation to previous research?

This has been a part of my research from the last semester at PZI, after writing, photographing, collecting images from archives – I have come to want to understand on a deeper level how the image is seen in a private and/or public eye. To determine if the personal stories/memories behind serve any purpose, what goes on outside of the frame.

Bibliography

Visual Culture – Nicholas Mirzoeff (Chapter 6,10) John Berger – Ways of Seeing

Languages of Art: An Approach to a Theory of Symbols by Nelson Goodman

Shannon–Weaver Model