Anna M. Brigance

My name is Anna M. Brigance and I am in college, aspiring to be a photographer.

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Altered Landscape

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Altered Landscape

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Project Two Proposal

For Project Two, I am still wanting to incorporate text with my photographs. I am also still going to explore the concept of the landscape as a character. The text is going to be original and since we have to manipulate the image in some fashion, I am going to handwrite on the photograph.

I am wanting to explore printing on different kinds of paper and possibly writing on the paper before printing the image out, so the words would be underneath the image. I thought that that idea would further the notion of the landscape speaking out like a character, but also the landscape would internalize the words. I would like to explore the concept of conservation with this project and possibly tear the paper in some way and try to build it back together again. It could be as simple as me crumpling the paper or tearing it and stitching the paper back together again to hint at the idea of people trying to be more conscious of how they live on this planet, but yet the effects are still taking a toll on the land.

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Anna Brigance

Titled: “The Sun Came Out”

Landscape as a character

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Anna Brigance

Titled: “Shadows”

Landscape as a character

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Anna Brigance

Titled: “No Need to Run” 

Landscape as a character

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Anna Brigance

Titled: “Environment” 

The Landscape as a character

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Anna Brigance

Titled: “Drink Me Dry” 

The landscape as a character

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Titled: “Drink Me Dry”

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Titled: “Thoughts as Heavy”

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Anna Brigance

Titled: “Roots”

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Advanced Digital Proposal (Feb. 2, 2016)

I want to tell stories, whether that be with photography or writing. As a double major, my passions are divided. My first love was literature but somewhere down the road photography became a forerunner. Looking back, it was only natural for me to fall in love with photography because photographers are storytellers as well. I was attracted to the visual aspect and still am today. With this project, my goal is to create narratives using both mediums: photography and writing. I would like to challenge the way a short story or photo narrative is received.

As a photographer, I am drawn to landscape and environmental photography. I seem to always fall back on these type of proposals when I am creating work for a class. Nature is a huge part of my life, and I never get tired of photographing it. The concept that I want to elaborate on is the idea that landscapes can be characters in stories as well. They have histories and each landscape has a different emotion and story attached to it. People and landscape influence each other and are closely connected.

The portrait of the land will be one that I have taken and it would be accompanied by a found portrait that has either been discarded or filed away. I love looking through older photographs and creating stories in my head of their lives and what happened right after the moment was captured. By using older portraits, I will in a way, be giving these unknown people a story and make the viewer wonder what their lives were really like. I will either be using portraits found at the Library of Congress website or personal photographs that belong to my family. The landscape shots will be taken in or around Oxford. By landscape shots, I do not strictly mean photographs that depict nature alone. I would like to use a mixture of nature scenes along with city life. With these photographs, I would like to include an excerpt of a story or some type of written narrative. I was thinking that maybe it would anywhere from a paragraph to a page long. Or maybe just a sentence, something brief that gives the viewer an idea of this character. I was wanting to create diptychs and possible triptychs with this project, but depending on the orientation of the image, that might not work out as I have planned.

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Final Project. The social climate of agriculture. Old and new ways. 

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Project #2

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Art 383 Proposal #2

For project #2, I want to photograph the way development has affected the landscape. I want to specifically look at housing developments and see how the landscape has changed and what has been added and taken away from the land as a cause of more people moving into Oxford. I love nature and I have been fascinated for several years how humans impact the earth, whether it be positive or negative. William Eggleston and Stephen Shore have been influential to me, because their subjects are sometimes mundane, but there is so much emotion in each of their photographs. I would like to take their style of approach and apply it to this project.

I will photograph in Oxford, because in just the past year or two, there has been so much new growth and empty plots are being filled with homes. I do not want to solely photograph houses and neighborhoods, but I would like to also photograph the natural areas surrounding the neighborhood, incorporating the theme of an altered landscape. For housing developments I want to show the repetivness of the houses and when I photograph in more natural areas, I want to focus on objects found in nature that are not supposed to be there (lampposts, garbage cans). Juxtaposition will play a huge role in this project. I also want to keep in mind the colors of the subjects that I am photographing. I am debating on when to photograph this project. I am not sure if I want to photograph in the morning or in the afternoon.

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Project 1 for Art 383

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Proposal #1 Art 383

For this first project we were asked to create rayograms depicting an event in our lives. Over the summer I went to Honduras for the first time, on a mission trip. That trip made a huge impact on me and I wanted to represent it as a rayogram. In the first rayogram, I want to depict mountains. Mountains were on the left and right of your wherever you went in that country. It was beautiful to be surrounded by them. The second rayogram will depict people. The people there were so friendly and sweet. No matter what they were going through they still managed to be present and happy. When I got home from Honduras, I missed the people more than anything. They had nothing to their names, but were some of the happiest people I had seen. They were so thankful that our team had come to their village of Santa Cruz de Guayape.

The materials that I want to use are olive oil, thread, and maybe flour. For the mountain rayogram I want to create a topographic map with the thread to depict the height of the mountains and for texture use flour or olive oil. For the second rayogram I want to use the olive oil to draw abstract representations of people. I loved the way the oil caught light and was represented on the photo paper. I will find a way to use the thread in the people rayogram to connect it with the mountain rayogram.