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Re:Visions : A Mother's Secondary Images
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Shanks, Sarah M.
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1417785128
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Year and Degree
2014, Master of Arts (MA), Ohio University, Art History (Fine Arts).
Abstract
Informed by photographic history, theory, and various studies and practices that surround human memory, this study examines the ways that sequential pairs of snapshot photographs both inform and influence the content of memories. The study is firmly grounded in the practice of snapshot photography, examined through an investigation into Kodak’s history and the use of the photographic archive in the narratives surrounding collective memory within the family. This study is informed by artists working with sequential images, a reflection on the role of the photographer as the documentarian of family life, and the arguments surrounding the snapshot’s authenticity and fidelity to the past that it represents. A reflection on a collection of personal sequential snapshots calls the reliability of both memory and the snapshot’s ability to “capture” it into question. Ultimately, the transformation that occurs as the past is recorded through memory or photography inevitably alters its contents.
Committee
Jennie Klein, Dr. (Committee Chair)
Jody Lamb, Dr. (Committee Member)
John Sabraw, M.F.A. (Committee Member)
Pages
110 p.
Subject Headings
Art History
;
Fine Arts
Keywords
photography
;
history of photography
;
snapshot
;
art history
;
fine arts
;
photographic theory
;
maternal gaze
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Shanks, S. M. (2014).
Re:Visions : A Mother's Secondary Images
[Master's thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1417785128
APA Style (7th edition)
Shanks, Sarah.
Re:Visions : A Mother's Secondary Images.
2014. Ohio University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1417785128.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Shanks, Sarah. "Re:Visions : A Mother's Secondary Images." Master's thesis, Ohio University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1417785128
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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