Who said “ The camera gave me the license to strip away what you want people to know about you, to reveal what you can’t help people knowing about you”, and when was it said?
- Diane Arbus said this statement in the early 60's. Arbus spoke openly about photography’s power, to both steal and exploit other people’s faces and lives.
Do photographers tend to prey on vulnerable people?
- I dont think that photographers prey on vulnerable people. Photographers look for interesting subjects, and sometimes these subjects can/could be seen as vulnerable people or people with a state of difference about them. These people and subjects are being exposed by the photographer and the camera.
Who is Colin Wood?
- Colin Wood was one of Diane Arbus's subjects. He was photographed by her in 1962, when he was seven years old. Colin Wood is in a few of Arbus's photographs taken in Central Park, NYC.
Why do you think Diane Arbus committed suicide?
- I think that Diane Arbus committed suicide because she became to emotionally involved with her own work. For example her she said "Freaks was a thing I photographed a lot,..." this made her feel like she was exposing vulnerable people to the world.
Why and how did Larry Clark shoot “Tulsa”?
- Tulsa is a collection of prints which were made into a book in 1971. Larry Clark photographed his own life in Tulsa, Oklahoma, hence the name of the book. His life contained sex, crime, violence and hard drugs. These factors made this series of photographs become a personal and confessional diary, which became very commercial and very saleable.
Try to explain the concept of “confessional photography”, and what is the “impolite genre”?
- “confessional photography” is a style of photography that deals with capturing everyday life. This can be seen as unimportant but is vital for keeping a record of life in various different periods. The “impolite genre” is what we would today give an 18 age calcification. This “impolite genre” deals with violence, drugs, sex and intimate scenes and can be viewed as shocking and disturbing, but just show another side to humanity.
What will Araki not photograph, and why?
- Araki was a Japanese photographer who was known for shooting new levels of intimacy. Araki was a promiscuous photographer, who photographed everything and everyone. There was nothing he would not photograph. He says that photographs help him to remember and that he now, only likes to photograph things that he wants to remember.
What is the premise of Postmodernism?
- The premise of Postmodernism is that we now live in a media saturated society and everywhere we go we see numerous adverts and media imagery. In the post modernist analysis, you cant just take a portrait anymore as imagery, such as logo's on clothes portray other messages to an audience. An early example of this is by Cindy Sherman. Sherman photographed herself in various costumes and uniforms. This completely takes away her(the sitters) identity, This captured something of the current times, though it art it could be there to serve another purpose, such as for advertisement purposes.
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