February 8, 2016
Artist Presentation
Post in blog who we want a week from Wednesday
Postmodern to DeadPan
Give a 1.2.3. in who we choose
10-13 minutes
15 pieces of artwork
Documentaries up to 1 minute
Exam in Min’s class is her teaching and our teaching
Look at Artist Presentation Guideline
Fabricated/Staged
Photography
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60s-80/90s
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Hyppolyte Bayard Tableau Photography
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Staged photography is called tableau photography
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1840 invention of photography
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Staged photograph as a drowned man
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Fabrication is becoming a known from of
photograph, it is a way of him protesting not being attributed as one of the
creators of photography. While the camera does not lie, but it is incapable of
telling the truth. It can record the appearance of things, not always the
exacting thing.
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Tableau photographers are now known as a
director, makeup artists, etc- Jack of all trades.
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Eugene Meatyard
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Surreal and horrific images using his own
children and wife, in an everyday normal setting
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Used masks to suggest a world full of darkness
and horrifying.
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Became controversial because children did not
know what photographic roles they were taking on.
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Less Krims
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Disturbing sudo documentary photographing
technique.
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The incredible case of the Stack O Wheats
murders of the Stack O Wheats murders
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Wanted to mimic photographs from the scene of a
crime. Fabricated crimes with a female victim at the loss of a psychopath. Feminists did not like him for this. A stack of pancakes represents the number of
women killed by this murderer.
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What is illusion and what is reality? Transferring a 3D world into a 2D picture is
already a psychological illusion, so how is this any different.
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Polaroid of his mother looks like a found photo.
Sex, violence, media influences.
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Arthur Tress
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Surrealistic documentation of fantasies and
fears, asks people what they are and they become the model
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Theater of the Mind- fear of androgyny and
falling off the cliff
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Intent of the photograph comes from staged
photography of actual reality of interviews conducted.
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By 80s and 90s we start to be surrounded by
staged photography
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Fabricated to tell the truth about the subtext,
context, and delineable narrative.
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First time you see political campaign fabricated
photography (Regan) Reality TV comes out. Dissecting the subtext.
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Photographers start expanding their cultural
role
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New ways to create worth, to create an inherent
quality of the truth, expands ideas to new heights.
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David Levanthal
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Hitler Moves West- all fabricated, based on 1941
American invasion of ?
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Uses toy dolls to act out scenes he reads about
and stories he hears about from historical moments.
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Voyeuristic- cloudy, grainy, instead of
mimicking images from the past he shoots how he imagined it was, he creation of
these moments and remembers experiences that relate based on that memory.
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Wild west is what he is more famous for
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Reconstructs how he remembers the iconic Wild
West, he chose colors and image style based on this. Nostalgic and seductive.
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Photograph is suggestive not descriptive
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What are they? Polaroid?
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Ken Botto
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Uses miniature set up to show every day life
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Brutal scene style, in media culture we are numb
to the things going around us.
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They are watching TV while the world is
destroyed; lady is passing by someone low. Syndical adult world shown through
toy collection.
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I’m not a fan really
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Bruce Charlesworth
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Saturated color scheme, abstract ideas,
imprisonment, danger, and violence.
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Wanted to create a complex photograph with
multiple narratives that could come from it, let the viewer make the movie, for
themselves. The viewer writes their own story
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Influenced by Freud
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Sandy Skoglund
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Elaborate environments all created by hand of
animals and people in an area.
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Bright exaggerated colors, absurd objects,
elaborate poses, commercial techniques, installation artist, she is telling you
what to view
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Why a red wedding? Based on the culturalism.
They are stuck in an orange peel.
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Chewing gum and eggs.
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Photography is not neutral
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Joel Peter Witkens
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Very scary, manipulated, “Photographer decedent
from Hell”
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Using cadavers for these images.
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Wants to show death alive, why can’t we talk
about the horrific events of death that are happening to people. Modifies the
images to the negatives and prints after the image is complete, to show age and
mysterious quality to the images, show them as one of a kind.
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What is considered beautify or horrifying or
subjective and why does the subject matter, matter?
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Same thrill of a horror movie. Humans hurting
humans
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Robert and Shana Parke Harrison (husband and
wife)
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Looks like a painting not a photograph, montage,
contact prints, layers and layers, encaustic
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Pre digital
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Tells a story of loss, technological abuse,
beautiful imagery about man and their struggles.
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Robert is the model and performer, the worker in
the land!
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The struggles of the working class.
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One of a kind of work, true originals. Pioneers
of their true medium.
What is Conceptual Art? Part 1 movie (watch and do not have
to respond)
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