Ben Gilberg

Abstract

Living Fossil is a series of still lifes and portraits exploring the language of photography with curiosity and play, formal vision and descriptive candor. It looks at the speculative of materiality and spectacle in image making. This series prescribes new functionality to familiar subjects, challenging a viewer's perceptions of scale, time, significance and artfulness. The photographs document improvised temporal combinations in the construction of narrative and visual puns. Depicting the ordinary in an unfamiliar way, this series looks for beauty in indeterminacy and moments of personal catharsis in the absurd.

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Still-life photography; Portrait photography; Photography, Artistic--Themes, motives

Publication Date

5-23-2013

Document Type

Thesis

Department, Program, or Center

School of Photographic Arts and Sciences (CIAS)

Advisor

Halpern, Greg

Advisor/Committee Member

Kelly, Angela

Comments

Note: imported from RIT’s Digital Media Library running on DSpace to RIT Scholar Works. Physical copy available through RIT's The Wallace Library at: TR656.5 .G55 2013

Campus

RIT – Main Campus

Plan Codes

IMGART-MFA

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