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Part 1: Vision
THEORY 1: Seeing, Perceiving, and Mediating VisionREBEKAH MODRAK this essay looks at … active and passive approaches to vision and recording, visual mechanisms (including sea creatures, humans, and cameras), Ann Hamilton’s mouth cameras, David Hockney’s and…
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Part 2: Light and Shadow
THEORY 2: Light and ShadowBILL ANTHES this essay looks at … flicker films, Plato’s allegory of the cave, H.P. Robinson’s allegorical images, working with the absence of light, Tony Conrad’s slow emulsions, photography as fairy magic…
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Part 3: Reproductive Processes
THEORY 3: Copying, Capturing, and ReproducingREBEKAH MODRAK this essay looks at … the photograph as physical imprint, Walter Benjamin and the aura of the work of art, Otsuka Museum of Art’s full scale reproductions, genetic and…
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Part 4: Editing, Presentation, and Evaluation
THEORY 4a: Series and SequenceBILL ANTHES this essay looks at … Sarah Charlesworth’s recontextualized newspapers, a comparison of The Family of Man by Edward Steichen and Steve McQueen, typologies by the Bechers, Karl Blossfeldt, Dan Graham,…