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Using Photography as an Analogy in the Experience of Death and Mourning

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posted on 2017-05-22, 01:11 authored by PAULA MAREE MAHONEY
This research project uses photography as an analogy to look at death and lament from a non-Christian perspective. Where religion sees death as infinite, transcendence from the limits of mortality, in a largely secular society such as Australia, death is the ultimate limit. I examine the arbitrariness of death, and then the personal loss of my father. I then investigate my relationship to death and my mortality, whilst using lamentation in my performative photographs.

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Campus location

Australia

Principal supervisor

Leslie Howard Oakes Eastman

Year of Award

2017

Department, School or Centre

Fine Art

Course

Doctor of Philosophy

Degree Type

DOCTORATE

Faculty

Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture

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