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