Date of Award
Spring 5-22-2026
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
Photography
First Advisor
Steven B. Smith
Second Advisor
Jonas Levi
Third Advisor
Maxime Lefebvre
Abstract
Temporary Constructions is a photographic series made by a process of multiple exposures, material assembly, and surface intervention on large format film. Working in a photographic lighting studio, I build provisional structures from scrap wood and metal and photograph the structures in multiple possible forms to produce images that are visually intelligible but spatially impossible. In my writing, I situate these images within a longer lineage of artists using photography to recast our relationship to surface and depth, and consider what that lineage reveals about contemporary mediation and the increasingly blurred boundary between image and object.
Recommended Citation
Golden, Elliott, "Temporary Constructions" (2026). Masters Theses. 1686.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/masterstheses/1686
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