Project 3: Self-absented portraiture

Exercise – Nigel Shafran

Exercise – Nigel Shafran   For this exercise, we are asked to go to Nigel Shafran’s website and look at his series Washing-up as well as his other work.  Shafran’s Washing-up project can be seen here.  The course book talks about the captions that accompany…
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Maria Kapajeva

Maria Kapajeva   Maria Kapajeva is the first artist mentioned in the course notes looking self-absented portraitures.  A self-absented portrait does not feature the photographer in a literal sense. The photographer may choose to use stand-in instead or might choose not…
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