DISSERTATION FELLOW 2008 – 2009

Hyewon Yi

For a dissertation titled Photographer as Participant Observer

Hyewon Yi studied the history of photography and contemporary art at the Graduate Center. She wrote her doctoral dissertation – Photographer as Participant Observer: Larry Clark, Nan Goldin, Richard Billingham, and Nobuyoshi Araki – on four living proponents of the ‘quasi’ or ‘gonzo’ documentary photographic and filmic method, which evidences a shift toward a subjectivized or autobiographical photography that she views as trans-cultural and trans-national.