Art Photography Now Artist Review 1

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Laura Letinsky

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"[their] entire still-life series is called "Hardly More Than Ever," a phrase taken from Gertrude Stein's novel, "Tender Buttons" (1914). ...The images oscillate between pastel and acid hues, with the later works bolder in composition." (6)

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Elsie Wright

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Frances and the Dancing Fairies (1917)

(8)

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Gregory Crewdson

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Twilight: Untitled (overturned bus)

2001-2

(11)

"..works with a production team of up to sixty people, including a cinematographer and director of photography."

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Justine Kurland

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Houses of the Holy, 2003

"This image, the title of which refers to the 1972 Led Zeppelin album, comes from a series produced during a six-month road trip in 2003."

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Julie Moos

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Julie Moos

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"The presentation of two people encourages the viewer to make comparisons based solely on appearances" (13).

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Koto Bolofo

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Skin and Paper

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Koto Bolofo

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Skin and Paper

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Koto Bolofo

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Skin and Paper

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Wolfgang Tillmans

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(2010)

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Gillian Wearing

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Self Portrait at 17 Years Old (2003)

(pg 18)

This artist is also featured (42-43). "...work explores the complexities of human relationships, and [..] often uses real people to talk about their lives.

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Gillian Wearing

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“Signs That Say What You Want Them to Say and Not Signs That Say What Someone Else Wants You to Say” (1992-1993). [..] asked people on the street to write whatever they were thinking on a card and hold it up, and [..] photographed the result. Private life and public opinion are inverted in these pictures, and the results are honest—sometimes painfully so—and often very funny, as with the photograph of an elderly man with a sign that says, simply, “ME.”

source: NewYorker.com

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Cindy Sherman

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Untitled #305, 1994

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Cindy Sherman

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2011

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Cindy Sherman

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(Film Stills)

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Helen Van Meene

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"Best known for [their] compelling images of girls and young women who have the transitionary traits of puberty" (22).

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Helen Van Meene

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Untitled, 2004

Direct quote:

"At a certain age boys have something very soft about their faces and gestures and I think it's that which attracts me." (22)

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Tina Barney

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"I have an anthropological and sociological fascination with looking at people I photograph. I don't feel it's social commentary because I am not judging them; it's all instinct" (28).

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Tina Barney

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"The Europeans: The Daughters" 2002

(26)

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Sam Taylor- Wood

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"With personal and often brutally honest images, [the artist] shares with the audience emotional and revealing narratives that touch on issues such as [their] role as an artist and [their] feelings toward the art word" (30).

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Sam Taylor-Wood

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Sam Taylor-Wood

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Katy Grannan

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(Sugar Camp Road series)

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Katy Grannan

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"The portraits manage to sidestep becoming purely decorative and picturesque and often have a slightly uncomfortable and seedy air about them..." (32-33).