MSU Student Research Celebration
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Item Junk Mail(2013-03) Buettner, Dan; Anderson, Christina Z.My project is a criticism of consumerism and the advertising industry, both of which are the forces that manufacture modern culture and social values. By cutting up and arranging junk mail and other paper-based advertisements, I constructed collages that examine society's relationship with mass media, as well as the environmental impact of mass-produced advertisements that are forced on every household non-consensually. The result is a series of photographs that ranged from, bright, colorful and detailed “explosions,” to simple, isolated and monumental images, to text-dominated compositions.Item Less Than 983: Small Towns of Montana(2013-03) Buettner, Dan; Anderson, Christina Z.This project (entitled Less Than 983, which refers to the population of the largest town in the series) is a photographic documentation of a selection of small towns, each with a population of less than one-thousand residents, across southern Montana. I sought to make photographs of the towns to give viewers a glimpse of an environment with which they may not be familiar. The photographs reveal the differences and similarities that arise in architecture, infrastructure, and landscape between towns. I traveled to over twenty different towns and photographed sites I found to be visually interesting and of cultural importance within the communities. The photographs were approached in both a fine art and a documentary style by being concerned with formal and aesthetic qualities, unique subject matter of possible historical relevance, and compositions that describe and represent each place accurately. The project has taken a finalized form of a book, a popular format for documentary photography and fine art alike, in which nineteen towns are each represented by about a half-dozen photographs that provide a sense of place that piques the viewers' interest in the charming, and often quirky, qualities of small town life.Item Still a Family(2013-03) Spray, Terri; Anderson, Christina Z.My project will consist of taking photographs to document the phenomenon of a single parent raising a large family and going to school at the same time. I intend to show how our life is different than the average family but also show how it is similar. I will include photographs of each of my 6 children that are still living at home as portraits, as well as capturing everyday life and what that consists of for us. My project will record the struggles, time constraints and benefits of having many children. It will bring light onto the single parent and the absence of the other parent. It will show the impact that going to school is having on our family. I will include as much of our daily life as is possible to make a comprehensive study into large single parent families. The photographs will be the main documentation of the project and will probably be made into a book or slide show to archive the project.