Photo Exam 2

Huynh Cong (Nick) Ut, Children fleeing a Napalm Strike, June 8, 1972.

Vietnam war, friendly fire on innocents and children. war crimes being captured

Eddie Adams, General Loan Executing a Vietcong Suspect, February 1, 1968. Gelatin silver print

Vietnam war, friendly fire on innocents, shooting those they find in the streets without a second thought

Bernd & Hilla Becher, Gas Tanks (Germany, Belgium, United states and Great Britain), 1965-1992. gelatin silver prints

Taking photos of rotting old buildings that are going away due to the end of the industrial revolution. Decline in things being built in the country, factories are being delegated over seas

William Wegman, Man Ray Portfolio-Man Ray Contemplating the Bust of Man Ray, 1978

Dog named Man Ray jokingly after the artist, the dog was trained and well mannered in photos.

Pedro Meyer, The Temptation of the Angel, 1991. Digital color print.

Mixing analog photography with digital transformation. Talks about Mexican culture mixing with American culture and what is possibly lost.

Jeff Wall, Dead Troops Talk (A Vision after an Ambush of a Red Army Patrol, near Moqor, Afghanistan, Winter 1986), 1991-92.

Staged photograph after battle has happened, dramatic take on the idea of the soldiers coming back to life and the shock/terror that it could bring.

Yasumasa Morimura, Self-portrait (actress), Red Marilyn, 1996. Ektachrome print

Relationship of the East vs West through the lens of Orientalism.

Moriko Mori, Pure Land, 1998, glass with photo interlay

Used her training in fashion to make disguises and capture photos of strange/fantastical characters in reality.

Keith Cottingham, Untitled (Triplet), 1993

Created photography of fake twins and triplets.

Donna Ferrato, Cover photograph of her book Living with the Enemy, 1991 [Ruth, photograph of an unbeatable woman, 1984].

Domestic abuse advocate. She took photos of women being abused knowing that no one would take them seriously but continuing to do so to send out a message or show what was happening to women.

Sebastião Salgado, Serra Pelada, Brazil, from his book An Uncertain Grace, 1990

The man in the front against the plank of wood feels like a crucifixion. Everyone is covered in mud and looks tired, the scene is packed. The photographer takes photos to comment on places that are uncommonly talked about/photographed.

Martha Rosler, [Balloons], c. 1967-72, from the series House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home.

Vietnam war, so much media filtered how bad the violence/war was. The photographer makes viewers reconsider the "here" and "there" of the world picture, these activist photomontages reveal the extent to which a collective experience of war is shaped by media images.

Martha Rosler. The Bowery in Two Inadequate Descriptive Systems. 1974-75

Photos of storefronts from a “bad” part of town where alcoholism was rampant. The typewriting are words about being intoxicated or from intoxicated people, the words aren’t meant to help describe the scenes but are meant to slightly confuse the audience.

Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still #21, 1978

Photographing herself as the stereotypical portrayals of women in the media. She means to look like the 50-60s in order to seem more clean/palatable to a wider audience.

Gerhard Richter, Shot Down (1), 1988, form his series 18 Oktober 1977

Reflection of Post War Germany. Took photos from the police and painted them to be more dramatic. This photo is a terrorist that was shot in the head in his prison cell.

Uta Barth, Ground #42, 1994
while challenging traditional and "it should be this way" thinking within making photographs

Challenges traditional photography of having it look/be a specific way. The photos are meant to reveal not what the eye sees, but how the brain processes what we see and to take a longer moment and understand ourselves.

Andres Serrano, Piss Christ, 1987

Alludes to the recent trend of commercializing or cheapening Christian icons in contemporary culture

Yinka Shonibare, Diary of a Victorian Dandy (21:00 hours), 1998

Central figure is of the artist, a black disabled man living in Britain. Using these fake victorian sets is meant to be a comparison to how the photographer feels out of place in contemporary Britain

Nan Golding, Nan and Brian in Bed, New York City, 1983, from Ballad of Sexual Dependency, 1981-86.

Famous for her art as she is for social activism, particularly around gay and transgender sub-cultures and also the ongoing opioid addiction epidemic in the USA.

Sally Mann, Naptime, 1989, from her book Immediate Family, 1992.

Transforming sentimental family photo albums into discomforting, uncomfortable, and weirdly intimate photos. Controversial photos due to the power dynamic of the photographer vs the subject.