Notes 2/29/16

William Eggleston
-growing up in Memphis, TN influenced his art being in the South
-dye transfer prints was a way he started to print his photographs
-Los Alamos prints are large color prints from 1974
-doesn't have titles for his photographs, but rather names of a series of works
-takes ordinary objects and creates interesting photographs out of them
Robert and Shana Park Harrison
-series called the Architect's Brother: 1993-2001
-9 sub-series that use a lot of Earth scenes with modeled people
-Robert is often the model in the photos and Shana does the set designs
-uses paper overlays to make the image, sometimes with 18 layers and lots of wax to create texture
Carrie Mae Weems
-got her degrees in art and folklore, which came into her work
-she makes us see the unfair stereotypes that we place on people
-uses colors of overlay on photographs to abolish race of her subjects
-Kitchen Table shows how that space revolves around women and the intimacy of relationships between men and women, women and children, and women and women
David Hillard
-mixes autobiography with fiction and uses subjects from his real life
-uses his father/son relationship in his photos to tell a story
-oftens shoots horizontal photos instead of vertical ones
Philip-Lorca Dicorca
-choose to get into photography after overdosing on drugs and one of his friends died
-all staged photographs that are ordinary but look like they're film stills
-male prostitute photos have staged scenes of real-life workers and the light give glamour to a non-glamorous profession
Mariko Mori
-creates wardrobe and scenes of herself and no one really looks at her
-her costumes represent alien and robot-like figures
-she wants to have a child-like look in her photographs
-she uses different elements of Earth, wind, water, and fire and was very spiritual