Sonia/gs4a

Thesis Outline - Draft @ 10 October 2019

I. Introduction

1. Background

2. Thesis Statement (a sentence that states your argument to the reader)
A critical enquiry and reflection on how light space and time intersect....

II. Body of Thesis

1. Overarching theme: LIGHT
First Topic: There’s No Such Thing as Post-Photography: on Photomedia or Light-Space-Time Structures

What is photomedia? Photomedia practices are defined by their use of light rather than the camera.
How installation, projection, moving image, alternative photomedia processes (cyanotypes, photograms)etc fall under the umbrella of photomedia.
Analogue/digital binary ??
Physical properties of light
Light objects/Materiality and process. Light made manifest through in artwork.
Magic in Photography/Abstraction as Method

Diary entry: Light and Magic
Related texts:

Light & Photomedia – Jai McKenzie
Photography is Magic – Charlotte Cotton

2. Overarching theme: SPACE
Second Topic: Being Elsewhere: on Journey, Place and Non-Place

Journey
Anthropology/Phenomenology of Tourism
Liminality/Liminoid Experiences
Autoethnography as Method / Autotheory
The Landscape as metaphor
Pedestrianism/Walking practices in art

Diary entry: Walking in nature, role of wanderlust and journey in my life, a note on politics and privilege
Related texts:

Non-Places – Marc Auge
Photography is Magic: Charlotte Cotton

3. Overarching theme: TIME
Third Topic: A counterpoint to Cartier-Bresson’s “Decisive Moment”: on Duration & Ecologies of Time

Sustained exposure in my practice
Representing timescales in photomedia (cosmic, geological, biological)
Sun-tanning, fossilisation (impressioning), Hiroshima.
Time in cinema vs photography
Contemplative/Reflective/Meditative/Slowness in practice
The landscape as a marker of time

Diary entry: