Notes 2/1/16

-Yasumasa Morimura paints the same masterpiece as background and inserts himself into photograph
-questions western documentary of our history
-"why can't art history start with eastern art?"
-asks us to question education of western art history
-Carrie Mea Weems posed questions about race and color
-uses tints on black  and white photographs to change perspective on skin color
-work explains how we describe ourselves based on color
-Lorna Simpson uses textures to show differences in class and race
-photographs don't show faces to show gender and race neutrality
-challenges how experience is created through history or memory
-incorporates text to show a story behind the image, but makes you question what you see first: text or photograph
-Gillian Wearing does documentary type work to show the public in a way that we wouldn't normally want to see
-the people she took photos of are choosing how they want to be documented, instead of the artist taking photos of what they want
-Shizuku Yokomizo documented subjects who chose to be photographed without knowing who the artist was, he is just a silhouette
-he took photos of people through a widow after sending postcards asking them to participant
- Ruth Thorne-Thomsen was a famous pin-hole camera photographer
-pin-hole cameras are naturally not focused and shows depth of field
-she was interested in constructing illusions with different distances
-Aberaldo Morell made the whole room a camera obscura and used a tiny hole in the window
-with such low lighting it would take about 8 hours to get the photograph
-Adam Fuss makes photographs with photograms (objects on light table in dark room)
-how much light exposure is going to be made has to be calculated
-Susan Durst uses moonlight and a flashlight as her light source and wanted to be very close to her landscapes in her photographs