Category Archives: PHOTO 2
In Search of Lost Time
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Marcel Proust‘s novel, In Search of Lost Time, famously details the confluence of past in present provoked through an involuntary memory. In the moment of observation, a photograph is a device for merging past and present experience. So while Proust may have had his “madeleine episode,” in their own way, second-year Photography students delve through layers of experience to portray the ephemeral accumulation of time.
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Double Exposure Portraiture
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Categories: PHOTO 2
The Social Animal
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In an era of global citizenship, with blurred identifiers like nationality, religion, ethnicity, among others, the second-year Photography students explore the ties that bind us, and question to what degree are we creatures of sociability: do we knit our identity through community or in instances of solitude? Who belongs? What does it mean to be an outsider?
Categories: PHOTO 2
Color Theory
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The painter Paul Klee said many bombastic statements about color, but this particular one resonates: “Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet.” The following work is evidence of the various meetings taking place between second-year Photography students and the universe.
Categories: PHOTO 2
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