Biffy Borg

Abstract

Memories, like the gelatin that coats our photographs, affix themselves to precious family images. These photographs provide us with stories either remembered or retold. However, similar to the actual memories, the photographs only provide a partial story. A moment in time captured on film. Once the shutter clicks, once the moment takes place, it is gone, and those within the borders of the frame no longer exist. Once the moment is over, it begins to recede into memory. The preciseness of detail begins to mutate. Therefore, both the memory and image are suspect.

Through my thesis work, I explore this relationship between childhood memory and photography. I examine the capacity for distortion that is inherent in both. Through the use of my own childhood images, cropped and manipulated, as well as dolls and other childhood toys, I create new photographs and objects that are meant to question the "truth" in photography and in our memories.

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Photography, Artistic--Themes, motives; Photography, Artistic--Technique; Memory in art; Children in art; Truth--Psychological aspects

Publication Date

8-10-2005

Document Type

Thesis

Student Type

Graduate

Degree Name

Imaging Arts (MFA)

Advisor

Angela Kelly

Advisor/Committee Member

Therese Mulligan

Advisor/Committee Member

Amy Van Dussen

Comments

Physical copy available from RIT's Wallace Library at TR655 .B674 2005

Campus

RIT – Main Campus

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