Thesis Title: Space, Place and frame in the contemporary photography
By: Mehran Moghimi
Supervisor: Dr.Helia Darabi
Degree: MA
Course of Study: Photography
June 2017
Abstract
Contemporary Landscape is not something out of us, because Land and us have interactions on each other. Today the earth is not just an object for representation, but by its changeability affects our being in the world. So in this study, was tried to viewing through our relation with the earth and considering the Landscape as a place for expressing the ideas. Characteristics and political, economo-social concerns, get better access to Landscape photographic genre in the contemporary period. According to this purpose, the first chapter was allocated to general issues of our study, in second chapter will give a summary of Landscape photography from historical point of view to find its most important changes and evolution in a time place stream. Also we will try to give a re description of some concepts such as: Landscape genre, Sublime and Picturesque Landscapes, critical Landscape photography moments such as: old topography, pictorialistic Landscape photography, strait photography, new topography and finally, Dead Pan Photography and manipulated photography.
Along with these plans, we found necessary to allocate the 3 rd chapter using the contemporary defined concepts such as different places (holy places, geographical, existing, natural or human made places and finally variable Landscape from contemporary photographers (classics, romantics, cosmetics and complex) and irrefrangibility of all these issues with Frame get some more close to contemporary situation of Landscape Photography. In this plan out idea is to understand and shoe were clearly the creative approach of human communication in creation of places and Landscape. For discussion and conclusion in 4rd chapter we will present fundamental hypothesis on Landscape issues to access to general positions: those who consider the Landscape as social creation, and those who are created from Phenomenological points of view. In fact contemporary Landscape Photography linked in characterization to regions as special forms of places which are communicate to know ours selves better using our consciousness, perception and experiences and changing of feeling to history and geography. These interactions have been an important subject for contemporary Landscape Photographers. Furthermore, in this chapter we will try to make a detailed research on John Pfahls word to make better condition for understanding the place, space and Frame in contemporary Landscape Photography
key words: Contemporary Landscape Photography, Picturesque, Sublime, Space, Place, Frame.