Date of Award
2015
Document Type
Thesis
Publisher
Edith Cowan University
Degree Name
Bachelor of Communications Honours
School
School of Communications and Arts
Faculty
Faculty of Education and Arts
First Supervisor
Dr George Karpathakis
Second Supervisor
Max Pam
Abstract
This creative Honours project is a practice-led inquiry into the photographed female nude. The images of the female nude photographed during the course of this project were taken in Australia and Colombia, providing a progression in aesthetics as the project unfolded. Informing the practice, and hence the images, is Roland Barthes’ concept of the punctum as read through Jacques Lacan’s psychoanalytical concept of the real. The project endeavours to develop an aesthetic of visual pleasure to liberate the female nude from a predominant psychosexual reading, and advocate a revisualisation of the nude as a less sexually objectified form.!In addition, while previous experience with photographic film gave insight into the apogees and nadirs of the ‘accident’, those good or bad moments that interrupt the photographer’s intent. I found that operating in the developing world – Colombia – provided far more uncertainty. Contingent and serendipitous elements arose that gave greater scope to my investigation into the aesthetics surrounding the female nude.
Recommended Citation
Defelippi, L. (2015). Reframed : A Collection of Photographs, and, Capturing the Real : Reframing Visual Pleasure in the Photographed Female Nude, an Exegesis. Edith Cowan University. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses_hons/564