The Genius of photography part 6

1.How many photographs are taken in a year?

There are 80 billion photographs taken in a year.

2.What is Gregory Crewdsons modus operandi?

Gregory Crewsdon’s method of functioning is to have a production crew and cinematic lighting to create one image. He uses and gets together all his props, lighting, actors to make it look and sound like a movie. He has his own camera operator and director of photography as he doesn’t take actual image as he believes the camera is just a necessary instrument as he is only interested in the images. After he has the image it then has to be edited and have to put lights back in as they’re the wrong temperature if the real ones are used so it has to be done after. He creates a series of multiple exposures digitally combined to make 6 final images. He creates an edition of 6 prints of each image priced at $60,000.

3.Which prints command the highest price & what are they called?

The prints that command the highest price are usually the ones that the photographer made himself closest to the time the picture was actually taken these prints are known as vintage.

4.What is a Fake photograph? Give an example and explain how & why it is fake.

A fake photograph is a print that is not correct and that was not printed by the photographer who took it. An example of this is “The powerhouse Mechanic” by Lewis Hine as there were several images that contained OBA optical brightening agents that were put in to photographic paper starting in 1955, however he died in 1940 so they wasn’t created by him and were therefore fake.

5.Who is Li Zhensheng and what is he famous for?

Li Zhensheng is a red army new solider and a photojournalist who in the 1960s and 70s found himself covering the cultural revolution he was said to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. It was very chaotic as one day he was a star and the next day he was in trouble. He didn’t want anyone to find the images because if found the negatives would be burnt so he hid them for protection. He was promoted by a top agency in America but his images were not ready to be seen in china.

6.What is the photographers “holy of holies”?

The photographers holy of holies is about Magnum and if Martin Parr should be allowed to be part of it. The fact that they had to expand was essential to creative’s on going survival, although he had a long battle to bring his photojournalism to the holy of holies in the end it was for the best as he got in an was allowed to be part of it and allowed magnum to progress and change.

7.How does Ben Lewis see Jeff Walls photography?

Ben Lewis is an art critic and he feels that Jeff Walls didn’t reinvent photography he took it back to the 19^th century to painting where everything is created, the people the light, constructed for a meaning added a lot of contemporary and theoretical concerns and included how men and women look at each other and Racial stereotyping.

8.Which famous photograph was taken by “Frank Mustard”?

The famous photograph “Camille silvy river scene france” was taken by Frank Mustard and he arranged where the people stood separating them with stereotype and he added artificial sky and more leaves. Many people weren’t aware at the time that it was Frank Mustard who had created this image.