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Item "Have your photo fine" : picturing complex personhood in John Palmer’s photographic archive(2018-05) Field, Katherine Gregory; Chambers, EddieOver a nearly fifty-year career, John Ellis Palmer created thousands of portrait photos in his Galveston, Texas photography studio. Palmer was an African American photographer who lived in Galveston from 1916 through his death in 1964, and his archive is housed at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Palmer’s photographic archive contains thousands of portrait and candid photographs of Black Texans, and documents the everyday lives of men, women, and children in his city. This archive has not been previously studied, and presents a rich and diverse body of images that picture Black life in the early through mid-twentieth century. Analyzing a subset of portrait and snapshot photographs labeled “Palmer’s Studio,” my thesis argues that this photographic archive visualizes “complex personhood” in Galveston’s Black community. Using “complex personhood” as a conceptual framework, I stress the fact that Palmer’s archive depicts real, complicated past people, and that we cannot not reduce his photographs to mere historical illustrations. Instead, we must recognize that lived experiences have and always will exceed simple historical categorizationItem Jerry(1975) Marianne, Minne MilesItem Lost & found(2012-05) Botkin, Erica Lauren; Sutherland, Dan, 1966-; Goodman, MarkI have produced two distinct bodies of work, landscapes and portraits. In both, I investigate my relationship to the subject. My role as the photographer fluctuates between the time I spend by myself and the time I spend with others. The landscape series promotes the act of looking and obscures my presence as photographer. Responding to the saturation of images in the media today, I hope to recalibrate viewers to a slower pace. I look for spaces at the edge of a controlled wilderness that are still accessible to the general public and mimic the identity of my childhood home in Northern California. Both color and black and white photographs sentimentalize manicured nature in ordinary locations. These landscapes facilitate reflection through consideration of similarities and differences. In doing so, these locations lose their specificity and approach a generalized sense of the sacred. The second body of work is a series of photographic collaborations I make with my autistic friend, Will Johns. He selects the subject matter and operates the light meter. His autism informs his methods, which then affects my methods. His idiosyncratic choices force me to photograph subject matter I wouldn’t be drawn to and compose in a new way where I must consider Will as author, subject and subject matter. In these images Will stands with the light meter, his posture gaze and facial expressions explicitly make reference to our relationship and reveal the complexity in separating subject matter from subject and the difficulties artists face with issues of exploitation and authorship.Item Portraits at the crossroad(2012-05) Nahm, Mi-Hee; Petersen, Bradley; Liu, BeiliThis report is a description of my artistic practice and a recollection of ideas and influences behind my work. My studio practice has been a cathartic tool that I employ in order to relieve the tension and confusion that comes from living as a foreigner in America. In order to deal with my longing for intimacy and the lack of control in my life, I create small-scale paintings of my friends from Korea that are currently living in America. Even though the paintings have subtle differences from each other, they all follow the two rules I set for myself in order to enhance the sense of intimacy and control. These rules include precision to the source materials and maintaining smooth surfaces by applying many thin layers of paint. Through painfully close observation of subject matter I attempt to create a sense of intimacy in my work on small surfaces as well as to address the uncertainty of the future through my controlled process of working.Item Ten sounds I cannot hear(2022-11-29) Arumbakkam, Aishwarya; Reynolds, Ann Morris; Hubbard, Teresa, 1965-My report will look at the making of my most recent body of work entitled Ten sounds I cannot hear. I will discuss each individual work through the process of their making, elaborating on my motivations, doubts, and decisions. The report will interweave written text with images of the works on view, and in the studio.Item The origins of Augustan portraiture : typology and dissemination of the pre-Actium Types(2017-05) Topping, Sarah Charlotte; Clarke, John R., 1945-The following paper explores the provenance, typology, and significance of the pre-Actium Type portraits of Augustus Caesar. These types are the Béziers-Spoleto Type, Lucus Feroniae Type, and Type B. The provenance, when available, is traced to the location of origin and analyzed in historical context. A detailed typological analysis is offered for each type with a focus on Stirnlockenanalyse. Deviations from the ideal model are addressed and evaluated. Finally, the significance of the three types is reevaluated in light of the provenance and new typological analysis.Item Untitled(2002) Engel, Tonya