Feedbacks to leave
1.
Cindy Sherman
2.
Wasteland
3.
George Rousse
4.
Joseph Mougel
5.
Dick Blau
6.
Jeff Wall
7.
Andreas Gursky and Questions
8.
Edward Burtinsky
Extra Credit on Undergraduate Exhibition
We are watching another video on Wednesday
Artist Presentations- 10-12 min 1 min Q&A
1 1. Sandy Skoglund- Hanna
2. Carrie Mae Weems- Anna
3. Thomas Demand- Nathaniel
4. Parke Harrison- Rachel
5. Jeff Wall- Amanda
6. Philip Lorca diCorcia- Brianna
7. Shizuko Yokomizo- Riva
8. John Pial- Chelsea
9. William Eggleston- Sara
10. Joel Peter-Witkin- Molly
11. David Hillard- Morgan
12. Mariko Mori- Maya
2. Carrie Mae Weems- Anna
3. Thomas Demand- Nathaniel
4. Parke Harrison- Rachel
5. Jeff Wall- Amanda
6. Philip Lorca diCorcia- Brianna
7. Shizuko Yokomizo- Riva
8. John Pial- Chelsea
9. William Eggleston- Sara
10. Joel Peter-Witkin- Molly
11. David Hillard- Morgan
12. Mariko Mori- Maya
Day 1 Monday
1.
Sara
2.
Rachel
3.
Ana
4.
Morgan
5.
Maya
6.
Briana
Day 2 Wednesday
1.
Molly
2.
Nathaniel
3.
Hanna
4.
Chelsea
5.
Amanda
6.
Riva
DeadPan Style and
New Document
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“There is never any real understanding in a
photograph, but only an invitation to fantasy and speculation.”- Susan Sontag
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Richard Avedon- Marilyn Monroe
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Gordon Parks- Man Emerging
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Ellison novels, psychological struggles and
drama about an event and relating to the event
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You learn to understand yourself in the context
of photographs of other people
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Thomas Ruff
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Hilla Bernd school of art
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His photographs look like 19-century daguerreotype,
very bad school photo, passport photo. Basic intent to photograph what someone
looks like. This is not made for art, but it is now according to Thomas Ruff.
It forces you to look at the history of portraiture in this way. It used to be
just documentation.
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No props, neutral background, flatly lit. What
is portraiture? He is forcing you to infer about the person and imagine who
they are because it is only the single person in the image.
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Can I detach the sitter from the viewer? Can I
just show them and not have any inference from the audience?
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It explains nothing, describes everything
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Philip-Lorca diCorcia
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Postmodern documentary photographer, US. Teaches
at Yale
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Famous for his heads series.
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Famous for his lighting in places and the way he
waits from far away with a far lens, someone enters a motion sensor area, light
disperses and he takes the photograph.
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This method makes it where the performers are
not interactive with the photographer, without prior knowledge. They cannot add
any quality to the way they would interpret their representation. They become
unexpected performers. How much should you be involved to take images of who
people are.
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These are real acts not acted real. A peep show
of someones day-to-day life without being touched by inference.
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Documentary/ staged/ not staged/ fact/ fiction
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How do we challenge the nature of representation
through photographic medium
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Adrienne Salinger
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Person or event is in transition.
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How they could capture time and human evolution,
it is moving, not fixated which photography is in nature.
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Middle Aged Men invisible man theory, intent,
settled, and the transition of that period.
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Scars, wrinkles, fragility of time. She shows
them the photograph and everyone says is that how I look, I don’t believe it.
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Rineke Dijkstra
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Adolescence on the beach. Background reflects
uncertainties of adolescence going through their life. The viewer is left to scrutinize
who they are. Their pose the way they want to. She always chose the shots when
they were getting into the pose rather than the pose itself.
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Sense of isolation and that time of finding who
you are.
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Child into Mother, new mothers grouped together,
challenge the notion how a photograph indicates subgroups of people
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Bull fighters “mask” after the fight
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Katy Grannan
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Feminist art movement. She photographs the women
to represent themselves and how they want to be portrayed. She gives them
freedom to be portrayed how they want to. She finds them on Craigslist. They
choose where, how, clothing, very participatory documentary photography.
o
Clash between how the photograph wants to show
the performers and the sitters are resisting it- creates depth and tension in
the images.
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Catherine Opie
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Teaches at UCLA
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Photographing people “in between” documentary
photographs with performative photography.
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She is gay and photographs that subject matter
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She shows community and sexuality and cultural
aspects are formed by social aspects we are surrounded by. What constitutes male, female, gay, lesbian,
by giving very bizarre images.
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Simple photography in a lush provocative manner
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Reminds me of Min Kim Parks work
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How do you know these people are not performing,
that they are who they are or if they are wearing a mask.
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Gender, Identity, it challenges the viewer to
think about how decorative and performative the human body can actually be.
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About the people and what makes them just like
us or different, it is not about the relationships between the individuals but
actually how they relate to our own identity.
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Charlie White
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Adolescence and transgender right after
surgery. The comparison.
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Gender issues
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Charlie White- Life In Between.
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Kelli Connell
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Columbia College in Chicago
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Dissecting the line between fact and fiction.
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Powerful documentation through digital
manipulation. Using one model she makes them into a reality like they are
twins.
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According to Connell, “This work represents an autobiographical
questioning of sexuality and gender roles that shape the identity of the self
in intimate relationships.”
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As realistic as possible, seamlessly put them
together to look like real interactions. Technically challenging and
interesting work.
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We end up believing it is realistic and factual
ideas of twins.
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According
to Connell, “This work represents an autobiographical questioning of sexuality
and gender roles that shape the identity of the self in intimate
relationships.”
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