Notes 2/22/16

-deadpan style was a way of documenting people and the area around them
-Susan Sontag: "There is never any real understanding in a photograph, but only in an invitation to fantasy and speculation."
-what you know about a person can create an implication of the meaning of the portrait photograph
-Thomas Ruff: created photographs in completely flat lighting, with a lack of facial expression, like a photograph for a passport
-neutral background, the portraits only have hair, clothing, and possibly jewlery, so we are forced to infer things about that person through imagination
-Philip-Lorca diCorcia: sets up lighting system in large cities and waits for people to come into the lighting, and takes their picture without them being aware that they are being photographed
-unsuspecting pedestrians become performers and look like they have fallen into their own thoughts, as raw and as pure as it is
-Adrienne Saligner: her and others are interested in transition of time and capturing evolution of people's lives
-invisible man: middle aged men who become older and ignored in society, all of the men she photographed couldn't believe that was what they looked like
-Rineke Dijkstra: became famous for shooting pictures of adolescence at the beach of them going trough their life
-takes the picture just as the subjects are starting the form their pose to capture their uncertainty that reflects the time in their life
-language transforms trough life transitions, like woman to mother, for example
-Katy Grannan: started to give a voice to individual women that she photographed, she gave them a freedom to choose how they wanted to be portrayed
-previously has been a clash of how the artist wants to document the person, and how they want to be portrayed
-Catherine Opie: interested in people who are in-between, photographed LGBTQ people and challenged the meaning of gender definition
-photographs the people in lush, provocative colored clothes, but has no other indication to their gender identity or orientation
-Charlie White: compared adolescents to transgenders right after their surgery
-Kelli Connell: visual manipulation makes the two people look like twins when they are not and the body language was meant to look very similar