Notes 2/15/16

-Gregory Crewson has hidden narratives in his fairy-tale like photographs
-has haunting and surreal feelings and hires an entire industry to make just one photograph
-staged photographers are relying on one photograph to make an entire story
-Crewson explores suburban America lifestyle and hires townspeople to pose in photographs
-each photo is polished and perfectly lit, people are physically present, but psychologically gone
-blue and green tints give a tv-like feeling of falseness
-wants to give an illusion of a movie, but have it seem like it's a real possibility
-Jeff Wall is one of the best photographers that was fabricated photography that looks like documentary photography
-went to a street and observed events over days to find racist occurrences and recreate them
-famous for being an art critic and historian, wanted people to have emotional responses of his photographs and paintings
-"Destroyed Room" was a women's room shown to depict her psychological aggression and disruption
-started to use digital manipulation by shooting multiple photographs over 5 months and put them together to make one particular photograph, and had to put them together since they could not be printed that way  
-people wanted to use his techniques as a way to advertise things by morphing things together
-Thomas Demand: famous work is images of painted cardboard boxes of historical images from magazines and newspaper, predominantly German
-he creates imagines of nations that are collectively remembered and created by international media
-shows small imperfections purposefully to show a lack of active involvement in the memory
-recreated an event of a cruise ship being hit by a hurricane
-Jeff Wall (video): used paintings to help him find human beauty in his photographs
-wanted his photographs to make a claim to truth
-when starting to use color, he saw illumination in advertisements
-lights shine through white paper to show illumination
-artists wanted to show representation of events to viewer, instead of documentation
-"Dead Troops Talking" he wanted the dead soldiers to wake up again and start having a conversation, so he depicted that in digital photography