Challenging the Threshold: Using Semiotics in Fine Art Photography to Examine the Disorienting Intimacies of Cohabiting Relationships

Identifier

50

Author

Lauren Michelle Evans

Date

2015

Document Type

Honors Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Fine Arts

Major

Art

Concentration

Photography

Committee Member

Cedar Nordbye

Abstract

This paper serves as a textual explanation of the processes used in my Bachelor of Fine Art Thesis exhibition. My methods employ the semiotic theory of communication, photographic practices, and embossing text. I have used my camera as a simulated research component on my own relationship in order to 'examine' the ambiguity often found in cohabiting relationships. I propose that text accompanying an image can transcend communication barriers created when dealing with abstract concepts. Text/image interactions either act as a descriptor in an illustrative relationship or as a participant in a graphic relationship. By successfully combining both the visual and verbal communicative systems through embossment, my artwork challenges perceptions of intimacy within a heterosexual cohabiting relationship.

Comments

Undergraduate Honor's Thesis

Library Comment

Honors thesis originally submitted to the Local University of Memphis Honor’s Thesis Repository.

Recommended Citation

Evans, Lauren Michelle, "Challenging the Threshold: Using Semiotics in Fine Art Photography to Examine the Disorienting Intimacies of Cohabiting Relationships" (2015). Honors Theses. 31.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/honors_theses/31