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Silverwood Taylor, Caroline (2020) Indecisive Moments: An Exploration of the Photograph in Relation to the Temporal Dimension of Liminality. PhD thesis, University of Gloucestershire. doi:10.46289/DS49PA66
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Abstract
This practice-based research explores the relationship between the temporal dimension of liminality and the still photograph. It examines how a liminal approach, in relation to time, affects the way one thinks about and creates a photograph. An analysis of the existing vocabulary associated with photography reveals that there is something fundamentally misleading about the way we commonly talk about photographs. Terms such as 'moment', 'instant', 'frozen moment' and 'snapshot' all assume a relationship with time which breaks down under scrutiny. The nature of the photograph is explored through creating a body of work which challenges these assumptions. The work is founded upon a methodology which has knowledge gained through practice as its basis, a practice rooted in monochrome analogue photography using traditional darkroom methods. The research is contextualised within the framework of photographic theory, with particular reference to the latter part of the twentieth century, together with aspects of the philosophy of time which have specific relevance. Through making work which explores the relationship between the photograph and time, an alternative interpretation of the nature of the photograph emerges. I argue that we need to rethink the concepts involved in creating an ontology of photography and reevaluate the language we employ to talk about the photograph. I conclude that the photograph is better understood if a temporally liminal perspective is adopted at every stage of its conceptualisation, creation, and viewing. This approach transforms our relationship with the medium, replacing the orthodox model of the photograph as a fixed object and a moment snatched from time with a new interpretation: it is redefined as imprecise, transient and contingent. The complexity of its relationship with time is thereby acknowledged, making possible the emergence of a new and more convincing epistemology of the photograph.
| Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) | |||||||||
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| Additional Information: | 2 volumes | |||||||||
| Subjects: | T Technology > TR Photography | |||||||||
| Divisions: | Schools and Research Institutes > School of Creatives | |||||||||
| Depositing User: | Susan Turner | |||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 18 Jan 2023 10:59 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 31 Aug 2023 09:22 | |||||||||
| URI: | https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/12249 |
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