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