Negotiated Major Project: Photography & Location

What is fine art photography?

Deeper meaning & content
Express yourself
Not documentary
Ambiguous
Intent is important

What is documentary?

Factual images
Portraits?

The problem is we don’t know what the meaning of these are because the medium shifts everything, and best way is to have your own opinion and where you place your own photography.

Road Trips:

Paul Graham:

A1 the great north road
A1 is the north and south divide.
He travelled up and down the road and documented it.
Snap shots.
About context

Mark Power:

Discovered a homemade enlarger, an upturned flower pit, a domestic light bulb and a camera lens.
Editorial work for charity
1992 began making his own projects
2002 joined magnum.
Project: Shipping forecast, released in book form. BBC Radio 4 has the shipping forecast, of various locations in England and Greenland ect.
He was interested in listening and imagining it in his head, so went and photographed these places. His images show the imagery he had as a child and the reality of it.

Richard Avedon – The American west.

Documented the American west at the time
Portraits
Location shoots, put a white background on a building but used natural light throughout all of his images
His work shows consistency
Historical document

Alec Soth: Sleeping by the Mississippi, and Niagara Falls

Work about heart break, love, ect
Calls himself a realist
His writings on photography are nice read.

Don McCullan:

Shot homeless people in London
Conflict photographer

Anthony Luvera

Started working in a soup kitchen
He asked the homeless people how they wanted themselves to be represented in the images, allowed them to do the images. He was assistance for them.
Images show power.
Don’t show stereotypes that we would think off.

Larry Sultan: The Valley

About a porn industry
The valley is a place behind Hollywood.
Has a seedy representation
Houses rented out for people to film porn, and he would go in and photograph the houses and around them.

Greg Miller