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The Writing of Light: Photography's Apparatus and the Unrepresentable
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Author (aut): Miller, David
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Degree granting institution (dgg): Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Graduate Studies
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This thesis situates aspects of my recent practice by examining photography's apparatus in relation to the idea of the unrepresentable. In art, awakening the present to the past or memorializing the dead evokes a dense web of cultural practices, aesthetic conventions and social agreements. Photography is unique among them. The act of photography is one of apprehension, for it grasps what is given spatially and temporally then isolates both space and time from a continuum. This rupture caused in spacetime is one of photography's most evocative and least understood effects. Spatial immediacy and temporal anteriority, the here-now and the has-been are, in a photograph, presented simultaneously. I explore this rupture in relation to the dialectic between presence and absence, and to certain subjects that exceed photography. My own works propose to give form to delicate and nuanced questions concerning invisible subjects or subjects that exceed representation. I explore how the photograph is implicated in its (self) presentation. How can the photographic reflect its own condition while simultaneously representing subjects other than itself? I situate my work alongside early and contemporary photographic works, “zero-degree” painting and examples from conceptual photography and consider these questions as a weaving together of the relations in my artwork: what is the photographic? What exceeds the photographic as the unrepresentable? |
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106 p.
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10.35010/ecuad:2698
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This thesis is available to view and copy for research and educational purposes only, provided that it is not altered in any way and is properly acknowledged, including citing the author(s), title and full bibliographic details.
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