Browsing by Subject "photography"
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Archiving Ephemerality: Digitizing the Berlin Wall
(2015)This thesis explores the way digital technologies inflect experiences with and meanings of art historical objects. Specifically, it addresses the way digital technologies can change the archiving, exhibiting, and experience ... -
Beyond the Diagnosis: A Photographic Inquiry of Chronic Illness
(2017-05-23)The old adage for authors is to ‘write what you know,’ and I believe the same can be said for any other artistic medium. I was diagnosed with Irritable Bowel Syndrome about four years ago and it has been a life-altering ... -
Engraved: A Family Forensics
(2023-02-09)An essay I wrote and drew for the Society for Cultural Anthropology's Visual and New Media Review, as part of a series of responses to Writing with Light Magazine's Issue No. 1: Photography & Forensics. It's about my Grandfather, ... -
Melancholy Sites: The Affective Politics of Marginality in Post-Anpo Japan (1960-1970)
(2011)This dissertation examines the intersection of experimental art, literature, performance, photography, and architecture, as Japanese artists and intellectuals grappled with political disillusionment after the end of the ... -
Misrecognized: Looking at Images of Black Suffering and Death
(2008-04-30)This dissertation investigates the social, emotional, and ethical implications of looking at the suffering and death of African Americans. Drawing on film theory, visual studies, literary criticism, and semiotics, the study ... -
Useless: The Aesthetics of Obsolescence in Twentieth Century U.S. Culture
(2017)In the industrial vocabulary of the nineteenth century, “obsolescence” is regularly cast as a loss; it is the profit forfeited when advances in technology render the current means of production unnecessary. But in the twentieth ...
