Tomoko Sawada
Name: Tomoko Sawada
Occupation: artist, photographer
- use photoshop to perfectly act as "someone" else
- change a single part of the appearance could bring a huge change (like haircut style)
[(left) School Day, 2004]
Rineke Dijkstra
Name: Rineke Dijkstra
Work: concentrates on single portraits, and usually works in series, looking at groups such as adolescents, clubbers, and soldiers
- photograph in series makes the theme strong and convincing
- unpolished postures
Romain Mader
Name: Romain Mader
[Ekaterina 2012 - 2017]
- a bold imaginary/fictive narrative group of photos
- blend social issue into the story in a novel way ---> extremely exaggerate the situation
What equality looks like in London?
International Women's Day 2018
Yinka Shonibare
Name: Yinka Shonibare MBE
- "I do have a physical disability and I was determined that the scope of my creativity should not be restricted purely by my physicality. It would be like an architect choosing to build only what could be physically built by hand." says Shonibare.
- Brightly coloured Dutch wax fabric
[In 2001 Shonibare created The Swing in which he transformed The Swing from 1767 by Jean-Honore Fragonard into a three-dimensional installation.]
[Homeless Boy, 2012. Mannequin, Dutch wax printed cotton textile, leather suitcases, globe, and metal base. ]
[Cake Man, 2013. Life-size mannequin, Dutch wax African-printed cotton textile (Kente cloth), leather, gold, polyester, and plaster]
Juergen Teller
Name: Juergen Teller
Occupation: fashion Photographer, fine-art photographer
Style: Minimalism, beauty of imperfection, "amateur" aesthetic, humanizing aesthetic
[Celine Spring Summer 2016]
- leave rough traces of photoshop (cut out the background) + snapshot + bold caption ---> unruly, fresh, clean, humourous
Masahisa Fukase
Name: Masahisa Fukase
Occupation: photographer
[Bukubuku,1991-1992, vintage prints]
- series of photos with different angles and composition
- explore new possibility from the same place
- B&W
- try vintage print
[From Window, 1974, vintage prints]
- series of photos with different posts and expression but same place
- let the movement of the object ( his wife Yoko ) control the composition
- snapshot (capture in a flash)
- natural posture
Adam Fuss
Name: Adam Fuss
Alexander Calder
Name: Alexander Calder
Known for: Sculpture
Movement: Kinetic art, Surrealism, Abstraction (art)
Martin Parr
Name: Martin Parr
Occupation: Photographer, president of Magnum Photos International
He is my favorite member of Magnum so far, and I believe he is also the most "naughty" member in Magnum so far. Left is his formal profile image in Magnum, which shows the huge sense of humous of him.
The world in his photography is so charming due to the beautiful colors, interesting little stories and the adorable people.
As Parr once told the Independent, “The seaside has to be one of the most fascinating places for people-watching. It is a place where we relax and lose our inhibitions, and that’s when true personalities come on display.”
The German photographic curator Thomas Weski has said: "Martin Parr is a chronicler of our age... Leisure, consumption and communication are the concepts that this British photographer has been researching for several decades now on his worldwide travels... Parr enables us to see things that have seemed familiar to us in a completely new way."
I really admire his courage of using flash in front of people in public places. I also wonder what happened every time after he used the flash. Has he been abused by them? To know more about these shooting details, I'll keep doing research about him. And I want to shoot in public places in the future. He also reminds me to pay attentions to the interesting moments in daily lives.
Reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Parr
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/on-the-beach-with-martin-parr#slide_ss_0=1
Claude Cahun
Name: Claude Cahun
Occupation: photographer
- vintage collages with both photographs and painting
- elements of theatre
"Cahun's works encompassed writing, photography, and theatre. They are most remembered for their highly staged self-portraits and tableaux that incorporated the visual aesthetics of Surrealism. During the 1920s Cahun produced an astonishing number of self-portraits in various guises such as aviator, dandy, doll, body builder, vamp and vampire, angel, and Japanese puppet."
Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Cahun
Artist: Cyber citizen
Host: AI by Google
- drawings by different people which can be guessed correctly
- general impression for everything
Miwa Yanagi
Name: Miwa Yanagi
Occupation: photographer
- repeat the same character for many times in the same space
- the charm of uniform
- magical tonality
- invite people to act as a magic realism character
- capture the imaginary personality
[My grandmother]
Kimiko Nishimoto
Name: Kimiko Nishimoto
Nickname: Selfie goddess
Occupation: shutterbug
Age: 89
- keep happy when taking photos
- appropriate retouch but not too much, keep natural
Izumi Miyazaki
Name: Izumi Miyazaki
- use Photoshop to show the impossible reality
- bizarre ideas
- use flash to create corresponding lighting conditions ---> easy to photoshop
Cloth Symbols
Tadanori Yokoo
Name: Tadanori Yokoo
Occupation: graphic designer, illustrator, printmaker and painter
- use text as a block( layer of the composition), text--->graphic
- cut shapes irregularly and collage it with regular shapes.
- try different color match
- make gradation distinct (through size/thickness/color......)
Nick Knight
Name: Nick Knight
Occupation: Photographer
- Using abstraction in fashion.
[Nick Knight for the Spring/Summer 2013 edition of the Another Magazine. Dressed by stylist Alister Mackie]
- Using contrast color blocks.
Alison Jackson
Name: Alison Jackson
Occupation: Artist, photographer
Alison Jackson is one of the bravest artists I've ever known. When I first saw her photography works, I was wondering whether those were "works" or not, because they were so lifelike. I thought that those photos "reveal" the "actual" lives of nobilities, celebrities, and even politicians. Then I started to doubt its truth. And finally, I've learned that the photos are fake, and the artist must have made great efforts to make them look lifelike.
I've also learned that she tried to remind people of the fact that, with the progress of science and technology, it's getting easier to fabricate photos, which always acts as an important medium of truth. It reminds me of the over-beautified photos on social media. Now that we can easily conceal our defects and even have a face-lift by using photo retouching applications, what about controlling other facts? Is fact supposed to be under our controls?
From the process of making "fake" images by Alison, I've learned that I can use casting to make actual props rather than using Photoshop, which may be much more difficult for me. In addition, I realize that sometimes natural images without polish can be much more powerful to show the actual atmosphere.
References:
Gillian Wearing
Name: Gillian Wearing
Occupation: photographer
"Gillian Wearing is known for her method of documentation of everyday life through photography and video, concerning individual identity within the private and the public spaces, where Wearing blurs the line between reality and fiction. John Slyce has described Wearing's method of representation as "frame[ing] herself as she frames the other". Her work in photography and video at first appear like most other journalistic methods of documentation seen in television and documentaries, but after further examination it becomes apparent that they do not conform to mass-media conventions. Wearing’s work reveals that the camera does not take a neutral stance towards its object, but is rather a powerful mass-media organ that breaks down the divide between public and private."