- Title
- The tangible image: understanding what materiality means for photographic practice
- Creator
- Rhodes, James
- Relation
- University of Newcastle Research Higher Degree Thesis
- Resource Type
- thesis
- Date
- 2022
- Description
- Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
- Description
- This practice as research PhD explores what materiality means for photographic practices through experimentation in both how photographs are created and displayed. This experimentation is informed by a reconsideration of theory surrounding photography and how practitioners have utilised tangible photographs in their own practice. While both analogue and digital photography have been explored, there is a focus on analogue photography and its inescapable connection to the haptic aspects of photographic practice. Photographs have been widely considered a 2-dimensional image based medium, but what information is held in the tangible qualities of photographs? By engaging in creating photographic objects and displaying them in gallery space this research aims to understand how different was of creating, manipulating, and displaying photographs change how they are conceptually underpinned. New avenues of photographic enquiry for artists to explore have been uncovered through understanding the relationship between image, object, and display. This research has been contextualised through analysing both the history of the photograph as object, and through embodied practice as research. Photographic history, from the initial material-based workflow to contemporary digital processes and how photography and art has been displayed, has been used to contextualise the photographic object. Developing a context for tangible photographs has allowed an exploration of the medium during the making period of the research. In this body of work, practice as research has allowed the creative act to be the experiment. It is the practical work created that can respond to the question posed. The photographic objects that were created in this research were examined through a cyclical process of critique and making. In this cyclical process the works were examined as individual art works and as art works within the gallery space in order to understand how materiality effected them conceptually. The title of this exegesis ‘Tangible Image’ arose organically through researching the materiality of photography. Physical and material image were considered before arriving at tangible. Tangible suggests that the photographs can be touched and held, that they exist within the physical experience of space and consist of materials. It was chosen because it encapsulated the idea of a photographic object in alignment with the research.
- Subject
- photographic practice; materiality; photographs; tangible photographs
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1506156
- Identifier
- uon:55812
- Rights
- Copyright 2022 James Rhodes
- Language
- eng
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