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Thesis Outline

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