Notes 3/28/16

-Aziz and Cucher: used photographs of people they actually took, then photoshopped them
-first to use Adobe in their digital photography
-wanted to show how new technology affects us in our daily lives through our psychology
-analyses how technology makes us lose our identity
-Interiors represents living skin that is transformed into 3-D architectural space
-interested in the transformation that takes place when looking at a photograph
-having a very negative outlook on how technology affects images
-Mathieu Bernard-Reymond: constructs images from multiple shots and composes it into one continuous frame
-takes pictures of people for hours and days when they enter the exact same spot
-people didn't know if they would be included in the space
-Beate Gustschow: takes different pictures at different places to make the ideal landscape
-uses over 100 photographs and photos look almost artificial
-photographed all over the world to create an architectural disconnect without any people
-never lists the places she photographs
-Nancy Davenport: photos look like terrorist attacks and constructs political images that are familiar to us
-we look at her images with familiarity and works with our memories that goes beyond the basic level of a photograph
-Joan Foncuberta: became known for series Landscapes Without Memory used from imagery technology that transforms a map into a 3-D simulated images
-uses language of science and look of photography to challenge a truthful landscape image
-creates fabricated photographs from technology to show defined hallucinations
-Richard Galpin: works with his own photographs and technology, prints his photographs, scores the emotion from his photographs to create a collage technique
-subtracts information from his photographs with technology, instead of adding things in like in photoshop
-Rudd Van Empel: uses digital collages to show beauty of black children, taking imperfections out makes it look almost fake
-children look like creatures and mimic soldiers and look too perfect
-wanted to define what makes fairytale child in books instead of normative white children
-Maggie Taylor: creates images that look like tintypes and layers 100-200 images in photoshop that looks very fairytale-like
-sometimes scans literal taxidermy objects that give a fairytale look to her work
-Maki Kawakita: became famous for work that is playful video-game like images and was heavily influenced by Tokyo pop culture
-combines traditional Japanese theater and flower arrangements
-Cao Fei: reflects Chinese culture where she's from and creates complicated images of where she's from
-wanted to reflect how changes in culture affects the younger people in that country
-creates hyperrealistic images of the cultural architecture and behavior