Photographic estrangement: the measure of distance in photographic relationships

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dc.contributor.advisorCharlton, James
dc.contributor.advisorJansen, Dieneke
dc.contributor.authorOlsen, Claire
dc.date.accessioned2008-04-18T01:16:33Z
dc.date.available2008-04-18T01:16:33Z
dc.date.copyright2008-02-14
dc.date.issued2008-02-14
dc.description.abstractThis research project investigates how estrangement is manifested within the photographic image, and how levels of estrangement establish conditions for the relationships between the subject, viewer and artist. Since the medium's inception the photographic process has involved encountering and negotiating otherness and the place of strangers. Over time a consistent photographic power dynamic has been established, and this project examines to what extent participants in this dynamic can escape or yield to the historically sedimented structures in which they find themselves participating. The images in this body of work tread the line between typological portraits and tentative encounters with strangers. These encounters/images do not suggest personal identity but question what it is to be a photographic subject. Rather than offer psychological insight into the subject, they attempt to foreground the signifying systems and process of photographic "representation". The project explores estrangement through physical and conceptual distance, negotiating photography's relationship to the real as a process, an image and an object.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10292/241
dc.publisherAuckland University of Technology
dc.rights.accessrightsOpenAccess
dc.subjectPortraiture
dc.subjectPhotographic theory
dc.subjectIndexicality
dc.subjectPhotographic distance
dc.subjectPhotographic space
dc.titlePhotographic estrangement: the measure of distance in photographic relationships
dc.typeThesis
thesis.degree.disciplineSchool of Art & Designen_US
thesis.degree.grantorAuckland University of Technology
thesis.degree.levelMasters Theses
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Art and Design
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