Dissertation Proposal

WORKING TITLE - Broadening Horizons …. An Historic Perspective of Women Landscape Photographers

KEY WORDS - Landscape Photography, Women, History, The photograph, Barthes

STATEMENT OF INTENT - My intention is to study the work of Women Landscape Photographers in an historical context from the 19th Century, to the Contemporary Landscape Photographers of the present day This is of interest to me because I have a passion for the internal and external landscape.

RESEARCH CONTEXTS – The methods of research I will be using are:

·         Visit galleries and museums

·          Research the  Historical context of landscape photography and women

·         Books, Journals, Dissertations

·         On line resources

VISUAL SOURCES – I will be searching for and using images of landscape photography by women from its inception in the 1800's to the more contemporary works of Uta Barth, Roni Horn and others. 

CONNECTIONS BETWEEN PRACTICE AND DISSERTATION

My Dissertation, Personal Project and External Project will all be connected. For my dissertation I am looking at the work of women in landscape photography. For my Personal Project I will be photographing the landscape exploring the connection and relationship that I have to the landscape of my ancestral home. The external project will be an exhibition of my landscape work.

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Gaston Bachelard The Poetics of Space

Barthes. R (1993) Camera Lucida Vintage London Melbourne Sydney Auckland Johannesburg

Bright.S. (2005) Art Photography Now Thames & Hudson Ltd London

Clarke. G. (1997) The Photograph Oxford History of Art Oxford University Press New York

Cotton.C. (2004) The Photograph as Contemporary Art Thames & Hudson world of art London New York

Andrea Liggins PHD (2005)

Sontag. S. (2008) On Photography Penguin Modern Classic St Ives England

Tilley. C (2004) The Materiality of Stone Explorations of Landscape Phenomenology Berg

Liz Wells Land Matters

Edited by Liz Wells, Kate Newton and Catherine Fehily Shifting Horizons