How many photographs are taken in a year?
- Billians! 80 billion hotographic images will be taken this year alone. Today photography is not only worth bidding for it’s worth fighting for and faking for.
What is Gregory Crewdsons modus operandi?
- It looks like a movie, sounds like a movie and smells like a movie but it isn’t. All of this activity is to make a single photograph, by Gregory Crewdson. Crewdson has a production team on each shoot, these include cinematic lighting to create one single perfect moment, and also has his own camera operator and director of photography. He has a strange disconnection to photography. Gregory Crewdson doesn’t like holding a camera and doesn’t actually take the photograph. Crewdson is interested in images and believes that a camera is one of his instruments to capture the image. Over an eleven day shoot, in a variety of locations, Crewdson's team, made a series of multiple exposures which were digitally combined to make 6 final images. Crewdson produced an addition of 6 final prints of each image priced at approximately 60 thousand dollars.
Which prints command the highest price & what are they called?
- The most expensive prints are called 'vintage prints'. These prints are ones made by the photographers themselves, close to the time the photograph was taken. The most Expensive to date is by Edward Steichen, taken in 1904 called 'The Pond - Moonlight' it at Sotheby's Auction House for £2.6 million.
What is a Fake photograph? Give an example and explain how & why it is fake.
- A 'Fake photograph' is print from the negative, printed by someone other than the original photographer that captured the image. One example of a 'Fake photograph' is when Peter McGill purchased a print of 'The Power House Mechanic' which he was told was one of two prints. He then saw for sale numerous of prints of this photograph that all looked the same. Collector Michael Mattis, has also bought a copy of 'The Power House Mechanic'. Being a physical theriosist, he was confidence science could get to the bottom of it. Mattis found that in 1955 certain chemicals were put into photographic paper. These chemicals were called OBA’s and were not present in the original 1940's prints. The photographers assistant, Walter Rosenblum admitted to turing out the 'Fake photographs' to profit fro the market demands.
Who is Li Zhensheng and what is he famous for?
- Li Zhensheng was a red army news soldier, a photo journalist who in the 1960’s and early 70’s found himself covering the Cultural Revolution. These images of communist China made him famous.
What is the photographers "holy of holies"?
- The photographers "holy of holies" are a collection of the most famous, leading photographers, working for Magnum photo agency. These "holy of holies" included such photographers as Ansel Adams and Henri Cartier Bresson. Martin Parr applied to join the prestigious photojournalism agency but Parr’s work was very different to Magnum. His photos have been said to be meaningless. photographers but Parr had to battle long and hard to bring his distinctive brand of photography into photojournalism’s "holy of holies".
How does Ben Lewis see Jeff Walls photography?
- Ben Lewis thinks that Jeff Wall didn’t really invent photography but he took photography back to the 19th century to painting where everything is creative, the people, the light everything is constructed for a meaning. He fed in a lot of contemporary theoretical concerns. Concerns about genders- how men and women look at each other and about racial stereo-typing.
Which famous photograph was taken by “Frank Mustard”?
- The famous photograph, taken by Frank Mustard was called 'River Scene, France'. Camille Silvy, french photographer, set up the shot and manipulated it to a revolutionary 19th century level, but did not take the photograph himself.
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