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    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.
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    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.
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    Out of Sight, Out of Mind
    (2013-03) Buettner, Dan; van Coller, Ian
    My project, titled Out of Sight, Out of Mind, is a series of 29 collages constructed from litter I have gathered from various locations around Bozeman, Montana. Each collage is composed of one bag's worth of trash from a single location, such as a parking lot or a stretch of road. Part volunteer work and part artistic expression, I sought to create a project that satisfied my urge to make photographs while simultaneously benefiting my local community directly. The project is focused on themes of sustainability, the environment, community, and consumerism. All of the glass, plastic, and metal gathered over the course of the project were deposited into their respective recycling bins. Out of Sight, Out of Mind is also the project I worked on for my first Senior Thesis course for the School of Film and Photography at Montana State University.
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