Joel-Peter Witkin
-war photographer and liked to take photos of corpse-like people
-adds depth to his imagery by making 3-D photographs on top of each other
-inspired other artists by creating very odd corpse-like people in the photographs
-used a lot of dogs and people who were deformed and had disabilities
Thomas Demand
-made a scene from 30+ tons of cardboard sheeting and no one area is the same
-challenges the age-old motto of photography that has to be documentary and conventional
-likes to portray historical reenactments of certain major events and places
-Dailies were things in his everyday life and he constructed them and took their pictures
Sandy Skolgund
-childhood affected her photographs later on in life; middle class family
-very colorful work usually with lines and she wanted to learn different types of art
-Radioactive Cats was a way to show that animals are somehow surviving even though humans are harming the earth and making it hard to lie in
-likes to use live models and sculptors at the same time
John Pfahl
-used conceptual photography to show extreme differences in human endeavours
-took pictures of atomic bombs scenes and represents the beginning and end of a culture
-pictures taken from inside people's homes he thought would be a permanent view of the outside
-windmill photos show the contrast between man-made structures and natural landscape
Shizuka Yokomizo
-she takes photos from a distance and doesn't know her subjects
-she was able to capture the natural facial expression and body language
-takes photos from other side of the window to show relationship of emotion from a distance, but still has the intimacy
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