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Title:
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Wish You Were Here You Are
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Creator:
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Hopson, Emma Creighton
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Subject:
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Thesis (M.F.A.) -- Photography
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Subject:
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Savannah College of Art and Design -- Department of Photography
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Rights:
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Copyright is retained by the authors or artists of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
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Abstract:
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The photo-based body of work, Wish You Were Here You Are, contributes to a contemporary representation of motherhood through constructed and rephotographed images and video
montage. The resulting open-ended visuals exist in a kind of in-between place that oscillates between the real and the unreal. This is much like Foucault’s analogy of the mirror in his
description of heterotopias, where a reflection is “at once absolutely real, connected with all the space that surrounds it, and absolutely unreal, since in order to be perceived it has to pass through this virtual point which is over there." Through its varied visuals, Wish You Were Here You Are does not rely on a singular point of view, fixed identity, or function of photography.
Alternately, the work creates opportunities for the viewer to consider the multiplicity of signification, contingency of meaning, and relationships between truth and illusion in every layered pictorial plane. Wish You Were Here You Are simultaneously navigates and explores maternal experience through constructed rephotography that foregrounds the illusory condition of the medium and provides a new, multilayered representation of motherhood.
Keywords: motherhood, constructed photography, rephotography, feminism, identity, time, Memory.
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Publisher:
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Savannah, Georgia : Savannah College of Art and Design
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Date:
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2021-11
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Format:
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1 online resource: 1 PDF (Thesis, 53 pages, color illustrations)
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