Education
- MFA, Indiana University
- B.S. B.A., Washington University in St. Louis
Biography
Professor Dan Schlapbach received his MFA from Indiana University. He is a Professor of Visual Arts at Loyola University Maryland, where he teaches in the Photography Program. Professor Schlapbach's research interests include the history of photography, alternative photographic processes such as stereo photography and wet-plate collodion, and digital imaging. His work has been exhibited locally, regionally, and nationally. He received an Individual Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council in 2008 and 2011.
Research Interests
Professor Schlapbach is interested in how the context of images changes with their surroundings. As sentient beings, we experience the world through our senses. But how do we make meaning of those senses? Do we all interpret those same sensations in the same way? Even more challenging, how do we communicate our personal experience, our interpretation, of those sensations to others? This mystery of consciousness, the mind's individual interpretation of senses, especially visual, is at the core of this work. How much of what we think we see is "actually there", and how much does our consciousness influence what we see as actually there, based on our expectations and experience? What interests Professor Schlapbach is not necessarily how each individual photograph but what happens in the blank space in between the photographs? To explore these interpretations, Professor Schlapbach merges historic and contemporary photographic practices to create one-of-a-kind photographic images.
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