Notes

Jan 24, 2018 WED

-photography referring time, memory, and special relationship

-artists

-painting

-photography as a tool to show idea

-30-90 polariod to create one .

-2d photograph referencing movement and time

-photography is creating the moment of death

-usually we use blurry to created movement

-passenger and driver view

-driver focus on the signs, and passengers focuses on the side view.

Vic Muniz

-presentation of reality

-sculpture and photography

-works with unconventional material: dirt, food, sugar etc

-famous for the sugar children series

-children work in a plantation, descendants of plantation slaves.

-after photographer, drew the picture with sugar in black paper, and take a photo. BLACK IS SUGAR, WHITE IS PAPER.

-sugar make you happy but sick too.

-what you see depend what are you focusing at

- Abstraction (focus on jam) or description (focus on face)

-insert himself as a main character of the famous pieces.

-draws the background, and paint over himself

-commercially successful.

-appropiration?
-cultural commentarer,

-collapsing the cultural boundary in art

-his own art history with him as the protagonist.

-Is the work worth the same when he insert himself in the masterpieces.

-fascinated with the differences of looking and seeing

-seeing not looking

-see the work not look it as appropriation

Who is the audience?
-does the identity of the audience changes the meaning of the work

Carrie Mae Weems

Add color filter on filmed black and white photo of black children

-Do you see the picture blue or black or a boy.

-use color to see people

-stereotype

-language has a syntax

-sign: photograph signifier: black and white photo of the boy with blue filter. Meaning: the identity

weems said, used the idea of “I saw you and you became” as a way of both speaking out of the image and to the subject of the image. For instance, I say, “You became an anthropological debate and a photographic subject,” I am trying to heighten a kind of critical awareness around the way in which these photographs were intended, and then the way in which they are ultimately used by me.

Jan 17, 2018 WED

Mark Klett

Go to the same place to see how the same place transformed due to human or nonhuman reason

"documentary photography"?

The photography is actually heavily manipulated before publication.

Concentrated on black and white.
Majority are pictures of herself. It is not self portrait, it is Photography that comments on issue about women.
ambiguous look ask for an approval of her role.

Cultural stereotype, perfect american women "marian monroe" (left)

Indicated domestic violence

Sherman: women looks women, man looks man, man looks women.

1. conceptual photographer is trying to bring some message to the viewers whether it is political, social commentary, emotional zeal... the image itself is not a concept, but general expression of the idea of the photographer.
2. it follows then, that s great deal of conceptual photography concerned with nature of representation.
3. how photographs picture the world- or how the world can be pictured in a photograph. How the photograph represent the world, how much do we believe photograph as reality, how much memory do we believe as real that is represented in photograph.

"every photograph is the abstraction of the reality"
idea, things, concept, camera, all the things together.

one of the pioneers in conceptual photography
experiment in how we perceive photography.
photography transfer 3d world to 2d
photography flatten the service, flatten of the back ground.
illusion of depth.

famous for adding picture to photograph.

Famous for making illusion of space. (installation, performance, sculpture artist)
The orange is becoming bigger when it is further away.

American, born 1951 lake
L'orange, Canada 1951
Sculptures
taking photo of his or her work,
black clothes to cover part of table (left)
drawing box (right)

Born in Paris,
1947
Projected the picture on the wall, trace it, and paint it.
the photo can only be taken at the certain point.
no one can make the exactly same photograph.

Jan 10, 2018 WED

Brief History of the photography

Postmodernism in photography

(1839-1970s)

In the beginning:

camera obscura

Pin hole Camera

1826 Nicephore Niece “View from the Window at Le Gras”

L ‘atelier de I’artistte 1837

A daguerreotype made by Daguerre himself

Beginning of black and white photography (copper plate)

Wiliam Fox Talbot (1800-1877) and John Herschel

Calotypes 1841

(not making public and not accessible for general public)

photography becomes popular daguerrotypes, Calotyp and Tintypes

Tinotype: more clear, remain longer

George Eastman in 1880s

Kodak camera went on market in 1888 and after the invention of brownie in 1901, photography become so popular.

“responsible for film photography we see now”

Color Photography (1861-present)

The first color photography using three color method suggested by James Clerk Maxwell and taken by Thomas Sutton 1861

The first color photography in printed in paper 1872, to use subtractive color method-------

First commercially successful color process, autochrome

First commercially viable color film, kodachrome in 1930

Introduction to photography in the early 20^th century

-Eadweard Muybridge, thoroughbred bay mare “Annie G”. galloping, human and animal locomotion , plate 626, 1887

Henri Cartier Bresson , behind the Gare St Lazare, 1932 He is considered as a pioneer of photo journalism.

Alfred Stiegliz, The terminal. Photogravure 1892

What transformed perception of photography

Photographers were radically affected by industrialization, political revolution and warfares, motion pictures, radios, airplanes, automobiles… Everything started to be industrialized.

August Sander, Disabled MAN, 1926

PASTRY CHEF, 1928

Secretary as a radio station

Cologne, 1931

Anthropological photo.

Purpose is to show German people objectively, but there must be something subjective.

Pop Art: one of the first postmodern movements in the visual art

Andy Warhol….related to photography

Photographer: Edward Weston: 1970s

Aesthetic body but still strong…

Though the ads is in the purpose of showing the strength of that women, she is till naked which shows that male are still dominant at that period of time.

Frank Majore: Blue

Martini, 1983