AKKAYA, Şahinde

The Examples of Nan Goldin and Nobuyoshi Araki in the Context of an Artist’s Past as their Identitiy

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From the moment when the person awares of himself/herself goes into an effort of selfunderstanding. This effort is person’s project to build himself. This effort makes necessary for a specific experience and a creative pursuit. Identitiy is a very difficult and multi layered concept to define. Identitiy is a concept that defines a person towards outer world and encompasses a person s all capabilities and characteristics. In this context identitiy is the one of basic keystones of the building of personality. Identities are indicative of a sense of belonging but; self identitiy is the most significant one that makes person irreplaceable and different as an individual. This is the basic identity of an individual trying to make sense by questioning. The artist that attempts to understand his/herself builds identitiy through the medium of art forms which seen as a means of expressing. Within this context, to understand the artist’s own feelings in the process of creation is a very important part of discovering the artist’s own identity. The artist lives this process through works that transpose personal experiences. Therefore, the person’s own history has a great importance in the formation of the identity of the artist. In this study, the main themes of the works concerning their life experiences concerning a kind of reconciliation with the past as a means of self-healing were analysed using the examples of Nan Goldin and Nobuyoshi Araki and their works.

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Identity , artist identity , photography , Nan Goldin , Nobuyoshi Araki

Mediterranean Journal Of Humanities

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