- how to develop ideas
- what is the creative process
- relate to photography but aren't photography
- book: explore ideas, play with images, store-up ideas to be developed
Picturing Identity: Tanner, Bearden & Basquiat
Photography Within the Context of Other Arts
- Informed by and informing of other arts
- Interchange occurring between painting & photography
- Degas: After the Bath (1896) Photograph & painting
- Uncomfortable beginning
- 1837, mimicking of paintings what is already there, poses, ideas (specifity missing)
- Degas - part of methodology is a photo to help painting
- Early C19, painter did portraits
- After early C19, middle class could afford photographs
- Mimetic way, more lifelike
- Degas, impressionist and not middle of the road
- Too radical to be art. Codes and conventions
- Oil was mixed as needed and difficult to use out of studio
- Photography allowed capture of fleeting moment
- using a photo could help see unusual poses etc
- Preparation for painting
- Caillebotte: Paris Street, Rainy Day (1877)
- Aaron Siskind: Chicago (1948)
- Abstract expressionism, texture and form
- Jackson Pollock huge canvasses
- Gerhard Richter, paintings that look photographic
- Joel Peter Witkin: dead body
- Raft of the Medusa: metaphor for George W Bush
- Gregory Scott: paintings in his photos
- Michael Fajan: Zero Sum Game
- Environment that is predominently mixed-media
- Chance to experiment is now as an Undergraduate
Inspirational Quote
"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards." Soren Kierkegaard (Danish Philosopher 1813-1855)
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