First presentation...

During our first presentation I took notes, writing down the information I had learnt about other photographer's, from the other people who were doing presentations in my group.Here is a summary of the notes I made for each photographer.

Bernd and Hilla Becher

• Black and white photographs of mine shafts and industrial buildings 
• They were taken after the second world war
• They were a couple who travelled together to different places to take the photographs
• They documented different areas of the world, taking photographs of the same structures at different times.
• The used large format cameras (8x10) so that the images can be blown up big.

Francesca Woodman

• She took self portraits
• Also specialised in surrealism and futurism
• Within her self portraits she doesn't show all of her body, hiding one part such as her head - playing hide and seek with her camera.
• There is blurred movement within her photos
• She wasn't really revealing who she is/ her personality to the viewer
• Her work relates to her thought process and how she was feeling

Keith Arnatt

• His photographs explore identity - how values are shown
• He makes art out of items we would usually see as anything interesting, being rubbish
• His portrait series documents life and peoples reactions to being photographed
• He makes things interesting due to the use of colours
• He uses shallow depth of field

Pieter Hugo

• He is a portrait photographer as well as documentary and art photography- gallery work
• He focuses on African communities - which is his culture.
• He draws you into his images, they have a deeper meaning than what you would initially think
• He photographs people in their environment, showing reality - people fought for what they needed.
• He photographed where people live.
• You get a sense of what it must of been like - they had to burn old computer parts to get things such as copper and money
• He documents real life situations

Tom Hunter

• He explores his neighbourhood - photographing people
• He photographed their environment as well as how they live
• He wanted to show how all people should be seen the same
• Capturing reality
• He re-creates scenes from old paintings 

Richard Billingham

• He takes family photographs, documenting their life style and whats happening
• He shows his family lifestyle
• You are able to see how his family are through his photographs
• He uses a film camera
• There was a lot of motion within the photographs of his father - due to the fact that he was a drunk and he was unable to keep him still

Wolfgang Tillmans

• He used photocopiers to produce work buy photographing them
• His firs exhibition was in 1988 - work shown was monochrome laser photocopies
• He had metaphorical political views which was shown within his work

Philip Lorca DiCorcia

• Documentary of the great depression - Walker Evans
• His work was influenced a lot by others
• Choreographed images - he sometimes payed people to feature within his photographs
• In one series he used a strobe light trigger to capture images of people as they walked past a laser
• DiCorica has done editorial work for 'W' magazine - advertising