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