- understanding of history and reality has been through the photograph - "we start to believe a photograph more than reality" - life is presented by a series of images - concept and context become much more important - crossing over of ideas and styles is encouraged and expected - modernism was objective and documentary - postmodernism was subjective and fabricated photos were common - documentary photographs in the 60's, for example, were supposed to be truthful - pop art uses old photographs and uses a twist of their own personality - Frank Majore was an important postmodernist - it is less of a product ad, and more selling a lifestyle -postmodernism means everything is an image - Sherrie Levine was an appropriationist -she was saying there is nothing left for an artist to do but copy - it is a representation of an reproduction of an object - Cindy Sherman is one of the most celebrated postmodernist photographers
-content and concepts are more important -photography for conceptual art is perfect since it's based on looking - labels on works of art make you understand its meaning and look at it again -photography is based on nature of representation -Ken Josephson says there is always an illusion and you're looking at a picture of reality -John Pfahl alters space and landscape to show dimension -we assume the farther the objects are, they are the same size,but appear smaller -the sense of space is being altered in Pfahl's photos -Zeke Berman, a sculptor, saw photographs changed the way his objects were created -Georges Rousse painted the walls to change the way his architecture designs were viewed -David Hockney was the first to show collage art in photographs -his photographs look like lots of little frames with movement -Vic Muniz works with no conventional materials in his photographs, like food -if you pay attention to the food in his photos, you don't see the photograph -photography's biggest job is to persuade, over an other medium
-Yasumasa Morimura paints the same masterpiece as background and inserts himself into photograph -questions western documentary of our history -"why can't art history start with eastern art?" -asks us to question education of western art history -Carrie Mea Weems posed questions about race and color -uses tints on black and white photographs to change perspective on skin color -work explains how we describe ourselves based on color -Lorna Simpson uses textures to show differences in class and race -photographs don't show faces to show gender and race neutrality -challenges how experience is created through history or memory -incorporates text to show a story behind the image, but makes you question what you see first: text or photograph -Gillian Wearing does documentary type work to show the public in a way that we wouldn't normally want to see -the people she took photos of are choosing how they want to be documented, instead of the artist taking photos of what they want -Shizuku Yokomizo documented subjects who chose to be photographed without knowing who the artist was, he is just a silhouette -he took photos of people through a widow after sending postcards asking them to participant - Ruth Thorne-Thomsen was a famous pin-hole camera photographer -pin-hole cameras are naturally not focused and shows depth of field -she was interested in constructing illusions with different distances -Aberaldo Morell made the whole room a camera obscura and used a tiny hole in the window -with such low lighting it would take about 8 hours to get the photograph -Adam Fuss makes photographs with photograms (objects on light table in dark room) -how much light exposure is going to be made has to be calculated -Susan Durst uses moonlight and a flashlight as her light source and wanted to be very close to her landscapes in her photographs
-fabricated/staged photography: 60's-80's/90's -Hyppolyte Bayard: took photograph of himself appearing dead in 1840's to show anger over not being known as one of the first photographers -tableau photographers do it all: directing, make up, setting the scene -Eugene Meatyard used his family to stage horrific, death-like images -he used children who didn't really know what they were doing and used their innocence -Less Krims took photographs of forensic crime-scene like photos of female victims -criticised by feminist artists because he only took photos of female victims -Arthur Tress photographs surrealistic fears and fantasies of the models that pose for him -emotional confessions were documented into illusionist staged photography -advertising strategies developed reality in photos in staged photography -exaggerated posed and dramatic colors were being used in the 80's and 90's -useful detachment from photography became suggestions, not descriptions -shift from how a photograph represents reality to how reality can be presented in a photograph -David Levanthal explores historic images by using toys to depict stories -takes pictures of how he remembers the historical stories and events (based on memories) -famous for Wild West stories reconstructed; about hazing memories -uses color to evoke emotion and sexuality to photographs about historical events -Ken Botto uses miniature characteristics of toys to create brutal style -interested in scenes that depict events and information in our modern lives -Bruce Charlesworth creates everything that goes into a single photograph -creates absurd, dramatic, and sometimes violent photographs with actual people -he was so interested in movies that he wanted to create poster-like photographs to intrigue us -Sandy Skoglund uses people or sometimes animals to show elaborate whimsical photographs -invites models to come in and model for her to show absurd objects in a scene -these types of photographs are used to create bias and prejudice in our culture -Joel Peter Witkens show horrific and pitiful people to show modified human bodies -used cadavers to show pain in human bodies through such horrific alterations -he wanted to bring crimes of violence against people to bring awareness to the media -Robert and Shana Parke Harrison collaborate together together and make the sculptures for the photos -pre-digital photographs showed the overuse of the land due to the technological age -used a lot of work to develop photos; Robert often poses in photographs
-Gregory Crewson has hidden narratives in his fairy-tale like photographs -has haunting and surreal feelings and hires an entire industry to make just one photograph -staged photographers are relying on one photograph to make an entire story -Crewson explores suburban America lifestyle and hires townspeople to pose in photographs -each photo is polished and perfectly lit, people are physically present, but psychologically gone -blue and green tints give a tv-like feeling of falseness -wants to give an illusion of a movie, but have it seem like it's a real possibility -Jeff Wall is one of the best photographers that was fabricated photography that looks like documentary photography -went to a street and observed events over days to find racist occurrences and recreate them -famous for being an art critic and historian, wanted people to have emotional responses of his photographs and paintings -"Destroyed Room" was a women's room shown to depict her psychological aggression and disruption -started to use digital manipulation by shooting multiple photographs over 5 months and put them together to make one particular photograph, and had to put them together since they could not be printed that way -people wanted to use his techniques as a way to advertise things by morphing things together -Thomas Demand: famous work is images of painted cardboard boxes of historical images from magazines and newspaper, predominantly German -he creates imagines of nations that are collectively remembered and created by international media -shows small imperfections purposefully to show a lack of active involvement in the memory -recreated an event of a cruise ship being hit by a hurricane -Jeff Wall (video): used paintings to help him find human beauty in his photographs -wanted his photographs to make a claim to truth -when starting to use color, he saw illumination in advertisements -lights shine through white paper to show illumination -artists wanted to show representation of events to viewer, instead of documentation -"Dead Troops Talking" he wanted the dead soldiers to wake up again and start having a conversation, so he depicted that in digital photography
-contemporary stage approach to photography in documentary form -captures beautified moment staged by photographers, Kodak moment, dramatized -major focus is basic functions of photography, captures documents -daguerreotype photography focused on functionality of camera and shot people straight on -that was a certain emotional disconnect from the photographer -August Sander: on of the first photographers of this type, captured portraits of people -had democratic and sociological connotations in his portraits of who the people were -portraits shot with minimal lighting and straight on -Diane Arbus: considered influential in the 60's, weirdness surrounded her subjects -topography: the accurate and detailed description of a place, a kind of mapping of the surface -Robert Adams: stylish neutral landscape, photos could have been done by anyone -photographs were purely documentary, didn't have human emotion -William Eggleston: the only commercial photographer using color, looked snapshot-like -he believed in extracting the ordinary and make it look fascinating -Bernd and Hilla Becher: founded school of arts from 70's-2000's -lots of people followed their style of documenting similarity in landscape and buildings -put buildings in grid format so you could compare all of them structurally -mapping was used to show diversity of objects -Andreas Gursky: photographing large architectural structures, everything in focus, from foreground to background, patterns in photographs -tried to make photographs as large as a painting, one photograph sold for over 3 million -Thomas Struth: huge photographs, only shown in museums, photographs of inside architectural buildings, looks tutorist-like but intentional -Do you think this type of style represent how we feel disconnected from each other? I think that we have researched the point where everyone is a photographer in some sense or another, and we've gotten to the point where nothing is very original or special anymore.
-deadpan style was a way of documenting people and the area around them -Susan Sontag: "There is never any real understanding in a photograph, but only in an invitation to fantasy and speculation." -what you know about a person can create an implication of the meaning of the portrait photograph -Thomas Ruff: created photographs in completely flat lighting, with a lack of facial expression, like a photograph for a passport -neutral background, the portraits only have hair, clothing, and possibly jewlery, so we are forced to infer things about that person through imagination -Philip-Lorca diCorcia: sets up lighting system in large cities and waits for people to come into the lighting, and takes their picture without them being aware that they are being photographed -unsuspecting pedestrians become performers and look like they have fallen into their own thoughts, as raw and as pure as it is -Adrienne Saligner: her and others are interested in transition of time and capturing evolution of people's lives -invisible man: middle aged men who become older and ignored in society, all of the men she photographed couldn't believe that was what they looked like -Rineke Dijkstra: became famous for shooting pictures of adolescence at the beach of them going trough their life -takes the picture just as the subjects are starting the form their pose to capture their uncertainty that reflects the time in their life -language transforms trough life transitions, like woman to mother, for example -Katy Grannan: started to give a voice to individual women that she photographed, she gave them a freedom to choose how they wanted to be portrayed -previously has been a clash of how the artist wants to document the person, and how they want to be portrayed -Catherine Opie: interested in people who are in-between, photographed LGBTQ people and challenged the meaning of gender definition -photographs the people in lush, provocative colored clothes, but has no other indication to their gender identity or orientation -Charlie White: compared adolescents to transgenders right after their surgery -Kelli Connell: visual manipulation makes the two people look like twins when they are not and the body language was meant to look very similar
William Eggleston -growing up in Memphis, TN influenced his art being in the South -dye transfer prints was a way he started to print his photographs -Los Alamos prints are large color prints from 1974 -doesn't have titles for his photographs, but rather names of a series of works -takes ordinary objects and creates interesting photographs out of them Robert and Shana Park Harrison -series called the Architect's Brother: 1993-2001 -9 sub-series that use a lot of Earth scenes with modeled people -Robert is often the model in the photos and Shana does the set designs -uses paper overlays to make the image, sometimes with 18 layers and lots of wax to create texture Carrie Mae Weems -got her degrees in art and folklore, which came into her work -she makes us see the unfair stereotypes that we place on people -uses colors of overlay on photographs to abolish race of her subjects -Kitchen Table shows how that space revolves around women and the intimacy of relationships between men and women, women and children, and women and women David Hillard -mixes autobiography with fiction and uses subjects from his real life -uses his father/son relationship in his photos to tell a story -oftens shoots horizontal photos instead of vertical ones Philip-Lorca Dicorca -choose to get into photography after overdosing on drugs and one of his friends died -all staged photographs that are ordinary but look like they're film stills -male prostitute photos have staged scenes of real-life workers and the light give glamour to a non-glamorous profession Mariko Mori -creates wardrobe and scenes of herself and no one really looks at her -her costumes represent alien and robot-like figures -she wants to have a child-like look in her photographs -she uses different elements of Earth, wind, water, and fire and was very spiritual
Joel-Peter Witkin -war photographer and liked to take photos of corpse-like people -adds depth to his imagery by making 3-D photographs on top of each other -inspired other artists by creating very odd corpse-like people in the photographs -used a lot of dogs and people who were deformed and had disabilities Thomas Demand -made a scene from 30+ tons of cardboard sheeting and no one area is the same -challenges the age-old motto of photography that has to be documentary and conventional -likes to portray historical reenactments of certain major events and places -Dailies were things in his everyday life and he constructed them and took their pictures Sandy Skolgund -childhood affected her photographs later on in life; middle class family -very colorful work usually with lines and she wanted to learn different types of art -Radioactive Cats was a way to show that animals are somehow surviving even though humans are harming the earth and making it hard to lie in -likes to use live models and sculptors at the same time John Pfahl -used conceptual photography to show extreme differences in human endeavours -took pictures of atomic bombs scenes and represents the beginning and end of a culture -pictures taken from inside people's homes he thought would be a permanent view of the outside -windmill photos show the contrast between man-made structures and natural landscape Shizuka Yokomizo -she takes photos from a distance and doesn't know her subjects -she was able to capture the natural facial expression and body language -takes photos from other side of the window to show relationship of emotion from a distance, but still has the intimacy
-digital photography allows us to create a reality, instead of capturing it -collections from the internet and morphed to make a photograph without a camera -Nancy Burson: used video technologies to create portraits from previous ones over time -desired to create ideal beauty portrait based on beauties of the time combined -created archetype of what the ideal beauty is -archetype of dictators with similar personalities to create a morph of all the people with a commonality -Daniel Lee: combined peoples' faces with various animal faces from Chinese zodiac -photographic surface is 2-D and he wanted to create something that had never been done before -Christopher Dorley-Brown: went to tiny town in England to take a series of portraits from 2,000 people to combine people from the same age groups and genders, and the people end up looking the same -Jason Salavon: took 100 centerfold images from the internet and blends them into an image to show a common theme for those models -lighter skin, better lighting, and different hair color occur over time -blurring the images makes you wonder what you are looking at -100 Special Moments are from combining of common American events like weddings, Santa Claus at Christmas, and graduation photos -makes us question how we categorize our photos and shows us common life events -Loretta Lux: uses children of family members and friends to create an archetype of the child to show the psychological personality of them, usually creates her own backdrop also -there is often a detachment and unusual proportions in the children Gillian Wearing: Album; photographs herself on her family members from old albums -made masks and body suits to be as close to the real people as possible -Craig Kalpakjian: wanted to create work that looked like corporate spaces by how he remembers them
-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
-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
-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
-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
-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
-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
-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
Notes 1/13/16
ReplyDelete- understanding of history and reality has been through the photograph
- "we start to believe a photograph more than reality"
- life is presented by a series of images
- concept and context become much more important
- crossing over of ideas and styles is encouraged and expected
- modernism was objective and documentary
- postmodernism was subjective and fabricated photos were common
- documentary photographs in the 60's, for example, were supposed to be truthful
- pop art uses old photographs and uses a twist of their own personality
- Frank Majore was an important postmodernist
- it is less of a product ad, and more selling a lifestyle
-postmodernism means everything is an image
- Sherrie Levine was an appropriationist
-she was saying there is nothing left for an artist to do but copy
- it is a representation of an reproduction of an object
- Cindy Sherman is one of the most celebrated postmodernist photographers
Notes 1/25/16
ReplyDelete-content and concepts are more important
-photography for conceptual art is perfect since it's based on looking
- labels on works of art make you understand its meaning and look at it again
-photography is based on nature of representation
-Ken Josephson says there is always an illusion and you're looking at a picture of reality
-John Pfahl alters space and landscape to show dimension
-we assume the farther the objects are, they are the same size,but appear smaller
-the sense of space is being altered in Pfahl's photos
-Zeke Berman, a sculptor, saw photographs changed the way his objects were created
-Georges Rousse painted the walls to change the way his architecture designs were viewed
-David Hockney was the first to show collage art in photographs
-his photographs look like lots of little frames with movement
-Vic Muniz works with no conventional materials in his photographs, like food
-if you pay attention to the food in his photos, you don't see the photograph
-photography's biggest job is to persuade, over an other medium
Notes 2/1/16
ReplyDelete-Yasumasa Morimura paints the same masterpiece as background and inserts himself into photograph
-questions western documentary of our history
-"why can't art history start with eastern art?"
-asks us to question education of western art history
-Carrie Mea Weems posed questions about race and color
-uses tints on black and white photographs to change perspective on skin color
-work explains how we describe ourselves based on color
-Lorna Simpson uses textures to show differences in class and race
-photographs don't show faces to show gender and race neutrality
-challenges how experience is created through history or memory
-incorporates text to show a story behind the image, but makes you question what you see first: text or photograph
-Gillian Wearing does documentary type work to show the public in a way that we wouldn't normally want to see
-the people she took photos of are choosing how they want to be documented, instead of the artist taking photos of what they want
-Shizuku Yokomizo documented subjects who chose to be photographed without knowing who the artist was, he is just a silhouette
-he took photos of people through a widow after sending postcards asking them to participant
- Ruth Thorne-Thomsen was a famous pin-hole camera photographer
-pin-hole cameras are naturally not focused and shows depth of field
-she was interested in constructing illusions with different distances
-Aberaldo Morell made the whole room a camera obscura and used a tiny hole in the window
-with such low lighting it would take about 8 hours to get the photograph
-Adam Fuss makes photographs with photograms (objects on light table in dark room)
-how much light exposure is going to be made has to be calculated
-Susan Durst uses moonlight and a flashlight as her light source and wanted to be very close to her landscapes in her photographs
Notes 2/8/16
ReplyDelete-fabricated/staged photography: 60's-80's/90's
-Hyppolyte Bayard: took photograph of himself appearing dead in 1840's to show anger over not being known as one of the first photographers
-tableau photographers do it all: directing, make up, setting the scene
-Eugene Meatyard used his family to stage horrific, death-like images
-he used children who didn't really know what they were doing and used their innocence
-Less Krims took photographs of forensic crime-scene like photos of female victims
-criticised by feminist artists because he only took photos of female victims
-Arthur Tress photographs surrealistic fears and fantasies of the models that pose for him
-emotional confessions were documented into illusionist staged photography
-advertising strategies developed reality in photos in staged photography
-exaggerated posed and dramatic colors were being used in the 80's and 90's
-useful detachment from photography became suggestions, not descriptions
-shift from how a photograph represents reality to how reality can be presented in a photograph
-David Levanthal explores historic images by using toys to depict stories
-takes pictures of how he remembers the historical stories and events (based on memories)
-famous for Wild West stories reconstructed; about hazing memories
-uses color to evoke emotion and sexuality to photographs about historical events
-Ken Botto uses miniature characteristics of toys to create brutal style
-interested in scenes that depict events and information in our modern lives
-Bruce Charlesworth creates everything that goes into a single photograph
-creates absurd, dramatic, and sometimes violent photographs with actual people
-he was so interested in movies that he wanted to create poster-like photographs to intrigue us
-Sandy Skoglund uses people or sometimes animals to show elaborate whimsical photographs
-invites models to come in and model for her to show absurd objects in a scene
-these types of photographs are used to create bias and prejudice in our culture
-Joel Peter Witkens show horrific and pitiful people to show modified human bodies
-used cadavers to show pain in human bodies through such horrific alterations
-he wanted to bring crimes of violence against people to bring awareness to the media
-Robert and Shana Parke Harrison collaborate together together and make the sculptures for the photos
-pre-digital photographs showed the overuse of the land due to the technological age
-used a lot of work to develop photos; Robert often poses in photographs
Notes 2/15/16
ReplyDelete-Gregory Crewson has hidden narratives in his fairy-tale like photographs
-has haunting and surreal feelings and hires an entire industry to make just one photograph
-staged photographers are relying on one photograph to make an entire story
-Crewson explores suburban America lifestyle and hires townspeople to pose in photographs
-each photo is polished and perfectly lit, people are physically present, but psychologically gone
-blue and green tints give a tv-like feeling of falseness
-wants to give an illusion of a movie, but have it seem like it's a real possibility
-Jeff Wall is one of the best photographers that was fabricated photography that looks like documentary photography
-went to a street and observed events over days to find racist occurrences and recreate them
-famous for being an art critic and historian, wanted people to have emotional responses of his photographs and paintings
-"Destroyed Room" was a women's room shown to depict her psychological aggression and disruption
-started to use digital manipulation by shooting multiple photographs over 5 months and put them together to make one particular photograph, and had to put them together since they could not be printed that way
-people wanted to use his techniques as a way to advertise things by morphing things together
-Thomas Demand: famous work is images of painted cardboard boxes of historical images from magazines and newspaper, predominantly German
-he creates imagines of nations that are collectively remembered and created by international media
-shows small imperfections purposefully to show a lack of active involvement in the memory
-recreated an event of a cruise ship being hit by a hurricane
-Jeff Wall (video): used paintings to help him find human beauty in his photographs
-wanted his photographs to make a claim to truth
-when starting to use color, he saw illumination in advertisements
-lights shine through white paper to show illumination
-artists wanted to show representation of events to viewer, instead of documentation
-"Dead Troops Talking" he wanted the dead soldiers to wake up again and start having a conversation, so he depicted that in digital photography
Notes 2/17/16
ReplyDelete-contemporary stage approach to photography in documentary form
-captures beautified moment staged by photographers, Kodak moment, dramatized
-major focus is basic functions of photography, captures documents
-daguerreotype photography focused on functionality of camera and shot people straight on
-that was a certain emotional disconnect from the photographer
-August Sander: on of the first photographers of this type, captured portraits of people
-had democratic and sociological connotations in his portraits of who the people were
-portraits shot with minimal lighting and straight on
-Diane Arbus: considered influential in the 60's, weirdness surrounded her subjects
-topography: the accurate and detailed description of a place, a kind of mapping of the surface
-Robert Adams: stylish neutral landscape, photos could have been done by anyone
-photographs were purely documentary, didn't have human emotion
-William Eggleston: the only commercial photographer using color, looked snapshot-like
-he believed in extracting the ordinary and make it look fascinating
-Bernd and Hilla Becher: founded school of arts from 70's-2000's
-lots of people followed their style of documenting similarity in landscape and buildings
-put buildings in grid format so you could compare all of them structurally
-mapping was used to show diversity of objects
-Andreas Gursky: photographing large architectural structures, everything in focus, from foreground to background, patterns in photographs
-tried to make photographs as large as a painting, one photograph sold for over 3 million
-Thomas Struth: huge photographs, only shown in museums, photographs of inside architectural buildings, looks tutorist-like but intentional
-Do you think this type of style represent how we feel disconnected from each other?
I think that we have researched the point where everyone is a photographer in some sense or another, and we've gotten to the point where nothing is very original or special anymore.
Notes 2/22/16
ReplyDelete-deadpan style was a way of documenting people and the area around them
-Susan Sontag: "There is never any real understanding in a photograph, but only in an invitation to fantasy and speculation."
-what you know about a person can create an implication of the meaning of the portrait photograph
-Thomas Ruff: created photographs in completely flat lighting, with a lack of facial expression, like a photograph for a passport
-neutral background, the portraits only have hair, clothing, and possibly jewlery, so we are forced to infer things about that person through imagination
-Philip-Lorca diCorcia: sets up lighting system in large cities and waits for people to come into the lighting, and takes their picture without them being aware that they are being photographed
-unsuspecting pedestrians become performers and look like they have fallen into their own thoughts, as raw and as pure as it is
-Adrienne Saligner: her and others are interested in transition of time and capturing evolution of people's lives
-invisible man: middle aged men who become older and ignored in society, all of the men she photographed couldn't believe that was what they looked like
-Rineke Dijkstra: became famous for shooting pictures of adolescence at the beach of them going trough their life
-takes the picture just as the subjects are starting the form their pose to capture their uncertainty that reflects the time in their life
-language transforms trough life transitions, like woman to mother, for example
-Katy Grannan: started to give a voice to individual women that she photographed, she gave them a freedom to choose how they wanted to be portrayed
-previously has been a clash of how the artist wants to document the person, and how they want to be portrayed
-Catherine Opie: interested in people who are in-between, photographed LGBTQ people and challenged the meaning of gender definition
-photographs the people in lush, provocative colored clothes, but has no other indication to their gender identity or orientation
-Charlie White: compared adolescents to transgenders right after their surgery
-Kelli Connell: visual manipulation makes the two people look like twins when they are not and the body language was meant to look very similar
Notes 2/29/16
ReplyDeleteWilliam Eggleston
-growing up in Memphis, TN influenced his art being in the South
-dye transfer prints was a way he started to print his photographs
-Los Alamos prints are large color prints from 1974
-doesn't have titles for his photographs, but rather names of a series of works
-takes ordinary objects and creates interesting photographs out of them
Robert and Shana Park Harrison
-series called the Architect's Brother: 1993-2001
-9 sub-series that use a lot of Earth scenes with modeled people
-Robert is often the model in the photos and Shana does the set designs
-uses paper overlays to make the image, sometimes with 18 layers and lots of wax to create texture
Carrie Mae Weems
-got her degrees in art and folklore, which came into her work
-she makes us see the unfair stereotypes that we place on people
-uses colors of overlay on photographs to abolish race of her subjects
-Kitchen Table shows how that space revolves around women and the intimacy of relationships between men and women, women and children, and women and women
David Hillard
-mixes autobiography with fiction and uses subjects from his real life
-uses his father/son relationship in his photos to tell a story
-oftens shoots horizontal photos instead of vertical ones
Philip-Lorca Dicorca
-choose to get into photography after overdosing on drugs and one of his friends died
-all staged photographs that are ordinary but look like they're film stills
-male prostitute photos have staged scenes of real-life workers and the light give glamour to a non-glamorous profession
Mariko Mori
-creates wardrobe and scenes of herself and no one really looks at her
-her costumes represent alien and robot-like figures
-she wants to have a child-like look in her photographs
-she uses different elements of Earth, wind, water, and fire and was very spiritual
Notes 3/2/16
ReplyDeleteJoel-Peter Witkin
-war photographer and liked to take photos of corpse-like people
-adds depth to his imagery by making 3-D photographs on top of each other
-inspired other artists by creating very odd corpse-like people in the photographs
-used a lot of dogs and people who were deformed and had disabilities
Thomas Demand
-made a scene from 30+ tons of cardboard sheeting and no one area is the same
-challenges the age-old motto of photography that has to be documentary and conventional
-likes to portray historical reenactments of certain major events and places
-Dailies were things in his everyday life and he constructed them and took their pictures
Sandy Skolgund
-childhood affected her photographs later on in life; middle class family
-very colorful work usually with lines and she wanted to learn different types of art
-Radioactive Cats was a way to show that animals are somehow surviving even though humans are harming the earth and making it hard to lie in
-likes to use live models and sculptors at the same time
John Pfahl
-used conceptual photography to show extreme differences in human endeavours
-took pictures of atomic bombs scenes and represents the beginning and end of a culture
-pictures taken from inside people's homes he thought would be a permanent view of the outside
-windmill photos show the contrast between man-made structures and natural landscape
Shizuka Yokomizo
-she takes photos from a distance and doesn't know her subjects
-she was able to capture the natural facial expression and body language
-takes photos from other side of the window to show relationship of emotion from a distance, but still has the intimacy
Notes 3/23/16
ReplyDelete-digital photography allows us to create a reality, instead of capturing it
-collections from the internet and morphed to make a photograph without a camera
-Nancy Burson: used video technologies to create portraits from previous ones over time
-desired to create ideal beauty portrait based on beauties of the time combined
-created archetype of what the ideal beauty is
-archetype of dictators with similar personalities to create a morph of all the people with a commonality
-Daniel Lee: combined peoples' faces with various animal faces from Chinese zodiac
-photographic surface is 2-D and he wanted to create something that had never been done before
-Christopher Dorley-Brown: went to tiny town in England to take a series of portraits from 2,000 people to combine people from the same age groups and genders, and the people end up looking the same
-Jason Salavon: took 100 centerfold images from the internet and blends them into an image to show a common theme for those models
-lighter skin, better lighting, and different hair color occur over time
-blurring the images makes you wonder what you are looking at
-100 Special Moments are from combining of common American events like weddings, Santa Claus at Christmas, and graduation photos
-makes us question how we categorize our photos and shows us common life events
-Loretta Lux: uses children of family members and friends to create an archetype of the child to show the psychological personality of them, usually creates her own backdrop also
-there is often a detachment and unusual proportions in the children
Gillian Wearing: Album; photographs herself on her family members from old albums
-made masks and body suits to be as close to the real people as possible
-Craig Kalpakjian: wanted to create work that looked like corporate spaces by how he remembers them
Notes 3/28/16
ReplyDelete-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
Notes 4/4/16
ReplyDelete-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
Notes 4/6/16
ReplyDelete-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 4/11/16
ReplyDelete-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 4/18/16
ReplyDelete-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 4/20/16
ReplyDelete-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 4/25/16
ReplyDelete-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