Notes 4/25/16

-Nancy Davenport: staged photographs depict and puts multiple images together to show familiar images in the media
-included by previous works of art by other artists and recreating them digitally
-would go take videos of events and take certain frames out and save them as screensavers
-Screensavers show protestors that reflect social issues that were current of the time
-Nikki Lee: conceptual photographer that wanted to do acting and film, but decided to do photography
-used a point and shoot camera and took photos of subgroups and dressing herself to combine photography and performance
-challenges the ideas of how we judge identity and how fixed our roles are
-she wanted to make us question our identity and can we and do make we our cultural identities
-she would often ask others or friends to take the photographs instead or herself

Maggie Taylor- Presentation 2

Notes 4/20/16

-Elad Lassry: post-appropriating photographer that works with found photographs
-frames around the photographers are the most predominant color in the photographs
-takes photos away from their original use and context, makes it more flat
-uses wires and other pigments in his photographs, sometimes using motion as well
-Alex Prager: dropped out of school at 14 and moved to Switzerland, then later back the states
-highlights a lot of emotional turmoil in her work and makes short movie videos
-a lot of her work in inspired by Los Angeles and public areas
-personally go through and dress each person in her photographs and uses a lot of primary colors
-Sophie Callee: travels for 7 years to get her art degree
-early work was black and white photographs and puts them in a book
-Detective was when she knew she was being followed but to her favorite places in Paris
-photographed people's first reactions of when they saw the ocean for the first time
-Richard Renaldi: takes a lot of self portraits of him and his partner and are often staged
-all his photos look like someone else takes the pictures
-travels to different places and documents him and his partner
-takes pictures of different people at the bus station  and where they are going is documented on the photograph
-Richard Galpin: works with processing of change in urban areas and the environment
-prints and peels away areas of the photos to create unique block-like shapes
-orbital sanding makes more blurred lines where you can't identify what it is; labeled in numbers
-makes 3-D photo sculptures that are anchored to the walls in his current work

Notes 4/18/16

-Brandon Nichols: combines gif images that are animated, usually human-like
-Shai Langen: looks like animation, but it actually real people, sometimes for music videos
-uses wall paper and paint on the human body and doesn't use computer animation
-Noemie Goudal:background images are fake and questions whether God is real in her photographs
-makes backgrounds fake and some real objects to question what's real and what's not
-Henry Hargreaves: noticed people liked to take pictures of their food before they ate
-one of the only photographs in the world that works with conceptual food photography
-works to study the social implications of food on society
-Candida Hofer: known for architectural documentation and analytical detailed photographs
-creates photographs that for made for people to occupy; all about color and shape
-photographs where each photograph was taken
-Roger Ballen: creates very creepy and hard to look at photographs in South Africa
-work reflects racial turmoil and hierarchical issues between differences in people's level of power  
-highlights different struggles that these people are facing
-Denis Darzacq: how people and urban areas interact to reflect how we navigate our world
-people levitating reflects our mindless urban activities and choices we make
-Katharine Cooper: documents white South Africans and how they are the minority
-she grew up as a white South African and shows how they are viewed as white trash
-Abigail Reynolds: works on how you can expend a photographic surface
-makes collages from found pages of books that depict famous places
-Brian Bress: collages to reflect his personal expression
-creates absurd protagonist and changes his own images to reflect the multitude of his identity
-shows how shapes and color reflect human form and work reflects consumerism

Notes 4/11/16

-photographs with thread and textiles
-Lisa kokin: cuts people out of found photos and threads them together
-Amy  Friend: has light shine through her photographs through little holes
-Dieuwke Spans: creates textures and 3-D look by layering her photographs
-Merve Ozlaslan: goes a lot of collage work for magazines and for herself in color
-Diane Meyer: pixelates photographs with cross-stitch, like the Berlin Wall
-Yoon Ji Seon: takes pictures of herself and adds sewing texture to her face other than her eyes
-J Frede: takes found photographs and creates his own unique landscapes by framing them together
-Randy Grskovic: takes pieces of his photographs and hand cuts and flips them
-Liz Orton: works with postcards of places and is interested in landscapes and recreating them
-photography becomes sculpture
-Susy Oliveira: photos creating a sculpture and producing color prints
-she likes to simplify things and it makes it more amplified
-Michal Macku: layers glass together and makes it look like a complete solid piece of glass
-Lucas Simoes: photographs rolled into a book by weaving photographs on wood and says he is making it look like a cinema scene
-Carmen Freudenthal and Elle Verhagen: create photos on blue jeans and making jeans look 3-D in their photographs
-Yuichi Ikehata: creates 3-D objects with photographs and creates fragments of people's' bodies  

Notes 4/6/16

-photography has found its power in documentary and referencing something else
-an approach of documentary photography is just a document, others use text, some are digital manipulation, and others document performances
-Nan Goldin and Larry Clark (1960's-70's): photographed intimate scenes and people doing drugs
-to the people they were photographing, they felt closer to them and didn't see the artists as photojournalists
-Leigh Ledare: focused on relationship between his mother and other family members in the most vulnerable positions
-defies logic of traditional family roles between mother and son; often takes sexual pictures of his mother
-Latoya Ruby Frazier: photographs usually about her family and where she came from
-all the townspeople worked in the steal mining industry and were family in the small town
-how the family relationships changed in the town over 3 generations
-it was her mother's idea to include herself (the artist) in the photographs
-Adam Broomberg and Oliver Charnarin: challenges how we see public and private photographs
-Erwin Wurm: performance about document type of photographs
-wanted to make photographs to poke fun at some artistic mediums
-purposefully made work that was politically incorrect
-challenges how the human body can be changed through different mediums
-Malanie Manchot: staged photographs between real life and performance
-how people regulate between public and private locations
-takes pictures of people that were just passing by, but she places them all in certain spots
-Nikki S Lee: best known for heavily performed and practiced American subculture by transforming herself in photographs
-cuts the photographs after she takes a picture of herself and her various partners in the photos and cuts the partner out to a certain ammount
-uses a disposable camera to challenge the authenticity of the photographs and leaves the date on the pictures
-Beat Streuli: depicts urban installations and photos look accidental like someone took them as they were just passing by
-Paul Graham: photojournalist in England and takes a lot of poverty-stricken areas
-took his American Night photograph by mistake and it turned out white
-Richard Renaldi: asked strangers to perform by touching each other when they didn't know each other
-took many takes since the pose had to reflect a certain level of intimacy

Notes 4/4/16

-these groups of artists collect appropriated images that are just democratic (no artistic significance), figure out the ideal in the photograph, and add their own style to it
-Elad Lassry: founder of the post-appropriating photography, uses a lot of photographs from textbooks, works made for academics
-questions the identity of the photographs and their genres and the frames become an extension of the photographs
-subtle manipulations challenge the genre of the photograph and wants you to find something slightly wrong with the photograph
-challenges how do we understand space by having the frame, foreground, and background all the same color
-Roe Ethridge: commercial photographer who also challenges how we categorize photographs
-skewed the dimensions of the objects to dilute the conventional ideals of photography
-Is it a mash up or a mix up?
-creates details that don't really belong with each other
-Alex Prager: dramatic movie-like compositions full of color and looks almost fake
-recreating images of woman through history of how women were portrayed in movie stills
-photography about photography: post- appropriating photography
-Man Ray: made photograms in the 20's and 30's; camera-less photography
-positions objects on light table to put an art form to a new photographic surface
-Sara Vanderveek: only uses print images from the internet of everyday life that doesn't come with the label of fine art
-puts old photographs in place and re-photographs the image on the light table
-Penelope Umbrico: types in words in a web search and puts them together in a collage in a certain space
-main objective: how anyone can appropriate and make their own photographs
-filters and re-puts together generic objects and sees what comes up for the first 1,000 photographs
-Walead Beshty: creates abstracts and purely materialistic photographic surfaces
-how a photograph can be transformed into something so abstract
-Eileen Quinlan: uses thing mirrors, curves it, and shows how an object is reflected and how it represents an abstract of reality
-tricks the viewer into thinking it's a painting, when it is a photograph
-Wade Guyton: paints on a canvas and feeds it though into a photo printer machine
-Amanda Ross Ho: mixes and matches images from other art mediums and regroups them together
-Michele Abeles:only thing that's real in her photograph is the model (usually male)
-manipulates and collages to make it look more flat, even when it has layers