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dc.contributor.authorLocke, Cassey
dc.date.accessioned2022-07-06T22:11:14Z
dc.date.available2022-07-06T22:11:14Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10652/5731
dc.description.abstractThis essay explores how contemporary photography can provoke an embodied experience in an audience to help initiate the contemplation of mortality. Emerging research and a growing ‘death positive’ movement proposes that death awareness can contribute to improved wellbeing (Society for Personality and Social Psychology, 2012). Through practice-based research and ethnographic methods, I investigate how the photographic image might play a part in connecting its viewers to mortality. The theoretical framework for this research is influenced by Roland Barthes, who claimed that every photograph is a representation of death. The research is also influenced by Sigmund Freud’s concept of the uncanny and Julia Kristeva’s writings on abjection.en_NZ
dc.language.isoenen_NZ
dc.rightsAll rights reserveden_NZ
dc.subjectphotographyen_NZ
dc.subjectmortality and photgraphyen_NZ
dc.subjectdeath and dyingen_NZ
dc.subjectBarthes, Rolanden_NZ
dc.subjectFreud, Sigmund (1856-1939)en_NZ
dc.subjectKristeva, Julia (1941-)en_NZ
dc.subjectwell beingen_NZ
dc.subjectautoethnobiographiesen_NZ
dc.titleUnderstanding mortality through the lens of contemporary photography: How can explorations of the abject and the uncanny in contemporary photography provoke experiences of embodiment and mortality?en_NZ
dc.typeMasters Thesisen_NZ
dc.rights.holderAuthoren_NZ
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Creative Practiceen_NZ
thesis.degree.levelMastersen_NZ
thesis.degree.grantorUnitec Institute of Technologyen_NZ
dc.subject.marsden360604 Photography, video and lens-based practiceen_NZ
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationLocke, C. (2022). Understanding mortality through the lens of contemporary photography: How can explorations of the abject and the uncanny in contemporary photography provoke experiences of embodiment and mortality? (Unpublished document submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Creative Practice). Unitec Institute of Technology. https://hdl.handle.net/10652/5731en
unitec.pages35en_NZ
dc.contributor.affiliationUnitec Institute of Technologyen_NZ
unitec.advisor.principalShaw, Yvonne
unitec.advisor.associatedMcDonald, Allan
unitec.institution.studyareaCreative Practiceen_NZ


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