Let the cameras roll and the paints flow : a thesis on the photographic tableau
Author
Yang, Leonard
Date of Issue
2015School
School of Art, Design and Media
Abstract
Just as the Calotype and the Daguerreotype were invented by Fox Talbot and Louis Daugerre respectively in the 1830s, with the former labeled as a ‘pencil of nature’ by its inventor, today’s camera is a device that captures reality and discloses a slice of reality that appears somewhat more spectacular than the circumstances we are in due to the proliferation of intermediary platforms capable of presenting a plethora of images that augment reality to the standard of the photogenic. The assumed authenticity of the photograph is in a state of crisis – its capacity to serve as realistic representation is warped beyond means of redemption. But what is reality other than a subjective perspective? What is reality other than staring into the stillest waters and having the reflection of our own face staring back at us, with the occasional ripple wiping clean a wrinkle that represents the loss of youth and the coming of age?
Subject
DRNTU::Visual arts and music::Photography
DRNTU::Visual arts and music::Painting
DRNTU::Visual arts and music::Painting
Type
Final Year Project (FYP)
Rights
Nanyang Technological University
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