February 1, 2016
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Discussion of the Vik Muniz video
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Liked incorporating the individuals by their
lives and with the work itself, he really wanted to involve the models in every
aspect; he wanted to socially change the idea of the picker as a person. Art
has the ability to change the world with work. The use of trash is to show that
trash is people. Who owns the photographs, who has the copy writes for it?
Merges art with no-profit. It makes it complicated cause it is with real
people. Do we involve them more? Do we involve them less?
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Yasumasa Morimura
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Major appropriation, he uses props and such to
place himself in the imagery, he paints the backgrounds and places them in the
background of the images, he paints it and puts himself in the place. Unlike
other appropriation artists he does not recreate the event with props, he
paints it and that’s it.
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Plays with western assumption of art history
significant, why can’t it start with eastern art? Does this work have the same
value, now that the protagonist in the image is of Asian decent?
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He is asking us to question the hierarchal
western art history education, what is feminine or masculine, is it female or
male?
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Carrie Mae Weems
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Colored black and white images of African
American race
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Shows the levels of terms to call African
Americans
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Semiotics of system of language
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Titled of “Colored People” yellow, brown, etc.
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In Asian culture the whiter the skin the higher
the status.
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Segregation in the black community, and shows
that by exaggerating these images with color. Categorizing socially,
politically, culturally
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Found these images at the thrift store and
colored it vividly red, how it is rendered it forces us to think about the
underlying notion of the historical horror applied to slaves.
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Lorna Simpson
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Black African American photographer, notion
about class, race, color, gender. All are completely anonymous and obscured.
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In the time of the civil rights, gender
specificity. Create more discrimination and violence by the portrayal.
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Looks like an image of a slave, how do we
remember things? Makes us question that. Manipulates memory and the perception
of that time in live. Experience is played with the view of the work
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How does the text show the difference? Asks you
to examine what is more powerful the text describing the image or the image
itself?
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Shows OJ as a darker man because of his status
as a murder, where as before he was shown lighter.
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Gillian Wearing
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Performance artist, documentary photography.
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British, she uses models for performative
purposes, video and photography, collaborative work between her and the public
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1992, Signs that say what you want them to say
and not signs that say what someone else wants you to say.
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She asks the public to make a sign of what they
want to say and asks if she can photograph them.
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There is a trace of their interaction, instead
of just getting them to do it, genuine authenticity, powerful and trustworthy,
the public has authorship over some of the concept.
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Defined by documentary photography, postmodern,
because they are holding up signs that define who they are. Amazing how she got
so many to put themselves on display.
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Shizuku Yokomizo
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Stranger series
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Sends postcards or letters of what time and day
to photograph you at the window at night, if you like to participate turn on
the light, be comfortable and come to the window, if not turn of the light and
ignore me.
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They know he is there but they never meet him or
interact with him. Voyeurism at its best. She performs for the subject and the
subject performs for her. Both ultimately become a voyeur.
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Ruth Thorne- Thomsen
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Pinhole camera, although there is no digital
manipulation, the camera does lie. Camera Obscura
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Natural dreamy soft focus cause there is no
lens, infinite depth of field, surrealistic; an illusion is definitely given
with pinhole camera.
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Manipulates placement to create unreal
proportions and perspectives. Very nice!
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Aberaldo Morell
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Camera-less photography, Camera Obscura. “But I
know you but you don’t know me- title” the whole room is a camera obscura.
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Constructed photography, using camera obscura at
its most primal form, the techniques of the camera is involved to make the
photograph.
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Adam Fuss
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Camera-less photography, photogram, you involve
objects in the darkroom with paper and no camera; it makes a one of a kind. He
is the snake man.
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Spiritually and poetic photograph. Combination
of control and chance. There is no complete control of what it will look like.
o “Explored” at the end.
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Photographic illusion with this imagery, the
second were done with color chemistry.
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Christ Gown
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Susan Dreges
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Completely pioneered camera-less photography
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She submerges photographic paper in a rive rand
uses the moon as her light source.
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She thinks the lens is in the way, she wants to
be close to the subject in a very tactile way
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She had to find a way to completely immerse and
get involved with her subject matter
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You are letting go and becoming almost
performative with nature.
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Started watching Georges Rousse documentary
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