During my extensive research into this project I found this website that included information about the mix between photography and existentialism.
Here is a snippet of the passage for me to refer back to and for you to read.
"Philosophy is used in many ways. It can be traced to various world outlooks, the human being's notion of the external world, of himself, and of his position in it.
Existentialism itself has perhaps been most influential in the last century. Its modern attraction owes much to the aftermath and hopelessness of the Second World War. And while it may have lost some of its former glory, it still holds quite an influence over many in the creative arts today.
It has a set of underlying themes and characteristics - anxiety, dread, freedom, awareness of death, and the consciousness of existing. It emphasizes action, freedom, and decision as fundamental to human existence.
It argues against definitions of human beings either as rational, knowing beings who relate to reality primarily as an object of knowledge or whose action can, or ought to be, regulated by rational principles.
Rather, it tends to view human beings as subjects in an indifferent, objective, often ambiguous, and absurd universe in which meaning isn’t provided by the natural order, but rather can be created by human beings' actions and interpretations.
Inspired by the works of Søren Kierkegaard, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and the German philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche, Edmund Husserl, and Martin Heidegger it became popular in the mid-20th century through the works of the French writers Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus."
The above passage I found on a website and believe it is what is at the heart of my project. I like the way the comparisons have been made surrounding the arts in which I study and existence and how ideas can be drawn between them.
URL OF WEBSITE: http://www.naturephotographers.net/articles1106/dm1106-1.html
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