HA 333 Contemporary Photo Quiz 2 - Images

Gran Fury

"Aidsgate" / "Silence=Death" poster (1987). Offset lithograph. Gran Fury was an art collective that predated Act-Up group. Occasional use of images of Ronald Reagan, who still refused to refer directly to the epidemic.

Deana Lawson

"Brother and Sister" (2017) Staged in Soweto, South Africa. Relation between this young black man in Soweto and the west side symbol he's doing doing his hands, he could be a young african-american in LA/NYC. Deana Lawson : staged documentary life work, not real documentary. "I wanted to represent him claiming his space and holding up the West Side symbol, like brothers in California and New York. So I'm collapsing this distance of the young black man in Soweto, and his relationship to young black men in the U.S."

Larry Clark

"Dead 1970", also "Accidental Gunshot Wound". Modernist photographer. Book called Tulsa. Black and white, flat and graceful but deep meaning. Lots of nudity, intimacy, but people know they are being photographed.

Sylvia Kolbowski

"Model Pleasure III" (1983). Collage, montage. She stressed the fractured/fragmented female body which invites fetichism. Critical postmodernism : artists who work against the status quo with things that already exist. The juxtapositions presented in Silvia Kolbowski's work allude to the violence, pleasure, and embedded ideologies of power and sexuality that structure representation. Kolbowski draws on techniques of appropriation and montage as well as aspects of psychoanalytic, linguistic, and feminist theory to critique the representation of femininity and, by extension, culture at large.

Nan Goldin

"Nan and Brian in Bed" (1981) Social documentary, which was kind of out of fashion. Intimacy. She said she took pictures to keep people alive in a way, with her. Also "Cookie and Nan", friend who was into drugs, gogo dancer, contracted Aids. Cookie portfolio. Staged still films, influenced by Cindy Sherman, Larry Clark. Self portraits. The Ballad of Sexual Dependency reveals Nan Goldin's most intimate experiences and moments of love and loss. Deeply personal narratives go back to the late 1970s and 1980s, a time in which the artist's life was dominated by drug use and domestic violence.

Nikki S. Lee

"Projects" 1998- (Ohio, Yuppy, Skateboard) Identity fluidity; her persistent identity throughout the projects; mediated identity, relationships created by/for the camera. Cultural appropriation. Accused of doing racist art (brown/black face). She stages herself, immerses herself in different communities.

Richard Billingham

"Ray's a laugh" (1994). Alcoholic dad, Billangham shoots him while he's kind of passing out. He shot his mom and dad's intimacy. Claustrophobic photographs, tight spaces. Cat is in the air. Ambiguous images revolving around alcoholic Father, Raymond. Some critics questioned the ethics. exposing his troubled, retired-working class family to a professional/cosmopolitain "art world."

Martha Rosler

"Red Stripe Kitchen" (1967-72) photomontage/collage dada, looks like an ad -From the series "House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home". Late 1960s, in opposition to the Vietnam War. Rosler combined preexisting mass media images from documentary (Life) and lifestyle (House Beautiful) magazines. Critical post-modernism. Questions premises of traditional documentary street photography of "victim photography". Images paired with poetry.

Sebastiao Salgado

"Refugees protected by their covers against the cold morning wind" (1984). Beautiful photography, black&white. Deals with social and environmental issues around the world. Salgado's devastating photographs are too beautiful to turn away from. Objectification of the people. Controversial. Brazilian. Trained as an economist before becoming a photographer, Salgado has produced a number of extended documentary series throughout his career, several of which have been published. His doc. photography is against the "decisive moment" approach of Cartier-Bresson. Rather it is a means to dig deep and raise awareness. He hoots both people and more recently nature, often traveling far from his home.

Corrine Day

"Tara sitting on the loo" (1995). Documenting life and relationships with unflinching realism, Corinne Day rightly earned her place as one of the photographic icons of our time. Probably staged photographs. She captures mental illness, sickness, drug abuse. Also "Me waiting to bathe, Bellevue Hospital". ID Magazine. Corrine Day, self-taught fashion and documenter of "intimate" scenes, helped bring an informal and edgy quality to fashion photography in the UK. •Influenced by Goldin, Clark •Her models were her muses and friends—insider point of view.

Richard Prince

"Untitled (cowboy)" (1989). Appropriation. He claimed these images where his. He didn't think of it as stealing. He was the director of these images. He wanted to take photographs of already existing photographs. He wanted no reference that it came from magazine to make them his as much as possible. Is it art or living of people's creativity ? In the early 1980s Richard Prince began to exhibit examples from his Cowboys in which he rephotographed Marlboro cigarette ads, cropping out all text and framing them like fine art. In doing so he had identified a rich symbol in American culture that embodied adventure, self-reliance, and rugged individuality. Marlboro campaign.

Cindy Sherman

"Untitled 96" (1981). Cropped image, young girl, sexualised young girl, a thigh is showing. Orange light. Works on feminism. Part of her Centerfold series. She is best known for her appearance-altering self-portraits. The photo depicts the artist in a vulnerable looking position. In 2011, a print was auctioned for $3.89 million, making it the most expensive photograph ever sold at that time. Yasumasa Morimura has appropriated this photo "To my little sister/For Cindy Sherman" (1998). Mix of Japanese and Western traditions. Every subjects has been covered so he learns from the masters (Japanese concept).

Barbara Kruger

"Your comfort is my silence" (1981) Black and white photograph, red accent. Visual strategies similar to Soviet propaganda. Cultural appropriation. Authoritarian look to critique authority. Looks like a poster. Barbara Kruger's art from the 1980s, which used the stripped-down graphs and punched-out language of commercial promotion to deliver political warnings. Not critical postmodernism.

Pedro Meyer

Meyer evolved from a "straight" documentary photographer into a digital-documentarian in the early 1990s, when digital photography was in its infancy. He often combines photographic elements from disparate times and places to arrive at a different or higher truth. He contends that digitally manipulated or not — all photographs are are equally "true" and "untrue". Criticism of Meyer's work: controversy over the representation of the poor, marginalized, and combination of that with fantasy/fictionalization. "The Temptation of the Angel" (1991), Mexico.

Modernism vs. Postmodernism

Modernism : stripped down things, very flat, clean, minimal, lots of repetition, no ornamentation. Postmodernism : appropriation, impurity of style, signs/structures mixed up.

Allan Sekula

Reinventing photography. One of the earliest artists to cast a critical eye on globalisation as social phenomenon. Sekula stressed the connections between photographic image and text, both in his artwork and in his critical writing. Sekula worked in series over prolonged periods of time, crafting meaning from an entire body of images rather than a single shot. Attacks photo-essay, anti photo journalism. Fish Story, Sekula's magnum opus, his response to globalization. Images from the world's port cities. Container ship. Photo which doesn't say much by itself, the text give most of the meaning.

Latoya Ruby Frazier

The Notion of Family (2001-14) - 1st book. Legacy of racism and economic decline in a post industrial revolutionary steel town. Impact on the town (Braddock, PA -most toxic place in America) and impact on her own family. She shoots her grandmother a lot, she was ill because of contaminated water/soil in the city. Socially engaged to show the impact of the industrialized era.