April 18, 2018
Last Day of Lecture
8 aka 6 Leading
Contemporary Photographers
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Candida Höfer
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Analytical scope of photography. It shows
reality and abstraction of reality. Detail precise detail oriented photography.
Photography is the only medium that can capture the reality.
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She does space documentation.
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Deadpan documentation. Detailed to the maximum.
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A place that is made for a human to occupy.
Libraries, Museums, Parliament
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Vivid color and shape with her detail.
Photographs them and clearly labels them from where they are. Imagination of
how people will realize these spaces.
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Organization and knowledge of what makes a
place.
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Huge images of a relatable space that feels
distant. All about shape form and color.
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Roger Ballen
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Reflecting cultural political turmoil between
race, racial turmoil, white trash. Crude images. Contrasting images between
races. Hierarchical images, assumed authority, and strangely constructed
tableau.
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Documentary in a detached way from reality.
Iconography of current shift and turmoil in South Africa. Illusion and decay of
South Africa from a modern to current society. Extreme human existence.
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Denis Darzacq
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French works interaction between man and spaces.
Decode this fact and fiction in
photographic surface.
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How we navigate consumer spaces. Hypermarket.
Consumer goods made in china that are colorful and hypnotize us. Shows hypnosis
of everyday world. Mindless consumption of elements we are surrounded by.
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Throws themselves in the air and photographs
them in action. Stuntmen and dancers. Has a superhero feel.
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Katherine Cooper
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Pure documentary photography
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Still believes photography can show reality.
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South African that documents white African.
Document how white people are viewed in South Africa. White African minorities.
Similar to Diane Arbus
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Photography can transfer human nature and
condition in the most pure form.
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Pioneering patriotic theme for photography.
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Intimate portraits. Dignity and complexity of
the minority group, you feel that she knows these people.
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Abigail Reynolds
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Expand surface of a photograph. The Universal
Now
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She appropriates materials and collages, found
book pages, finds other photographs of the same thing that are similarly shot
and collects them all to create these. Honeycomb growing out of the surface.
Line up with the photos of the same place. Places on top and or cutting to show
through the original image.
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Honeycomb means monument in photographic surface
and how it is imbedded in the mind. Topographical information of a place and
different times.
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Society interpretation of demographic
identification. How we learn understand and grow in a place.
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Brian Bress
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Collages are coming back
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Materiality of photography is no longer
important. Use photography completely as a tool not as the subject. A tool of
expression not of communication. Making their own ideas with the use of
photography but not necessary. Video work is more interesting.
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Homemade props and costumes. Social political
idea of identity. Disguises identity of himself. Uncertainties are why no
faces.
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Color shape and form makes the new identity.
Wall of consumerism
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Min likes his video work more. He becomes background
and foreground. Consumes the environment with appropriated images posted
everywhere.
Brian Bress Video.
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