Semester
Spring
Date of Graduation
2021
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Type
MFA
College
College of Creative Arts
Department
Intermedia & Photography
Committee Chair
Michael Sherwin
Committee Co-Chair
Kristina Olsen
Committee Member
Kofi Opoku
Committee Member
Gerald Habarth
Abstract
My MFA thesis and supporting exhibition focus on challenging the United States’ photographic archive that often left out African-American people. The work, through the use of appropriation and alternative photographic processes, disrupts America’s historical visual archive and notions that surround the white gaze. Through the unsettling of this visual space, new speculative narratives can be created to help imagine new futures. This work is the beginning of a process of mourning histories I have never known and reclaiming a place for myself and my family in the American landscape that is free of racial trauma.
Recommended Citation
Thompson, Raymond Jr, "In/Visible" (2021). Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports. 8061.
https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/8061
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