Friday, November 19, 2010

contemporary photo lecture 11/19/10

contemporary  photo -based art.



Henri cartier-Bresson: captured moments in life and helped establish classic photography

Weegie-news photographer: only photographer with police scanner always got there before everyone else took pictures of murders/accidents dark room in the back of his car.
camera was an eye and saw everything whether good or bad

Dorothy documentary photographer

photography used to show emotion and for advertising

Richard Prince took pics of marlboro ad and gave appropriation a foothold and made it economically viable

first cross dressing then cross cultural

constructed scenes- elaborate  scenes created just 2 take pictures of.
very elaborate pictures

David Leventhal
recreated historical scenes using toy figures

WWI trench scenes
war in Iraq
Western cowboys

stranger than fiction-
theatre
museum displays

Justin kirkland
gebralter

shows things that don't usually get shown

Wolfgang Tillmans
 - photographs of life
- feels more like real life
- some pictures kept while they should be thrown away

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