Sarah Newman

Abstract

Through Place is comprised of diverse, sometimes un-idyllic landscapes. Many of the pictures contain a trace--an alteration to the land, a specter of human presence. Yet these marks are pictured inclusively; the scenes are explored with interest and without judgment. They offer a reformulation of the division between the human and the natural, wherein "the natural" draws the largest circle. The images are made in geographically and culturally diverse places (from the Peruvian Amazon to ski mountains in California). "Place" becomes replaced by interpretation, fiction: representations that intermingle with our own agency, expectations, and memories.

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Landscape photography--Technique; Landscape photography--Themes, motives; Place (Philosophy) in art

Publication Date

5-1-2012

Document Type

Thesis

Department, Program, or Center

School of Photographic Arts and Sciences (CIAS)

Advisor

Halpern, Gregory

Advisor/Committee Member

Osterman, William

Advisor/Committee Member

Shackelford, Laura

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: TR660 .N49 2012

Campus

RIT – Main Campus

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