Notes 2/8/16

-fabricated/staged photography: 60's-80's/90's
-Hyppolyte Bayard: took photograph of himself appearing dead in 1840's to show anger over not being known as one of the first photographers
-tableau photographers do it all: directing, make up, setting the scene
-Eugene Meatyard used his family to stage horrific, death-like images
-he used children who didn't really know what they were doing and used their innocence  
-Less Krims took photographs of forensic crime-scene like photos of female victims
-criticised by feminist artists because he only took photos of female victims
-Arthur Tress photographs surrealistic fears and fantasies of the models that pose for him
-emotional confessions were documented into illusionist staged photography
-advertising strategies developed reality in photos in staged photography
-exaggerated posed and dramatic colors were being used in the 80's and 90's
-useful detachment from photography became suggestions, not descriptions
-shift from how a photograph represents reality to how reality can be presented in a photograph
-David Levanthal explores historic images by using toys to depict stories
-takes pictures of how he remembers the historical stories and events (based on memories)
-famous for Wild West stories reconstructed; about hazing memories
-uses color to evoke emotion and sexuality to photographs about historical events
-Ken Botto uses miniature characteristics of toys to create brutal style
-interested in scenes that depict events and information in our modern lives
-Bruce Charlesworth creates everything that goes into a single photograph
-creates absurd, dramatic, and sometimes violent photographs with actual people
-he was so interested in movies that he wanted to create poster-like photographs to intrigue us
-Sandy Skoglund uses people or sometimes animals to show elaborate whimsical photographs
-invites models to come in and model for her to show absurd objects in a scene
-these types of photographs are used to create bias and prejudice in our culture
-Joel Peter Witkens show horrific and pitiful people to show modified human bodies
-used cadavers to show pain in human bodies through such horrific alterations
-he wanted to bring crimes of violence against people to bring awareness to the media
-Robert and Shana Parke Harrison collaborate together together and make the sculptures for the photos
-pre-digital photographs showed the overuse of the land due to the technological age
-used a lot of work to develop photos; Robert often poses in photographs