Cultural Invisibility: Thesis On The Elderly

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This status of cultural invisibility has been one of the essential components of my research and the catalyst for developing my thesis on the elderly. Understanding aging, its representational erasure, and where it is culturally situated fueled my desire to highlight the lived experience of our elderly population. As a photographer, I am especially interested in the media and its ability to influence cultural views, in this case rendering aging as an unacceptable part of life. Other photographers, one being Cindy Sherman, have considered this same subject with respect to her own age and work. Best known for her black and white images that portray her as various female characters, Cindy Sherman’s work consistently examines truths about identity,