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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