Questions & Answers
How many photographs are taken in a year?
80 billion photographs.
What is Gregory Crewdsons modus operandi?
Crewdson isn’t like normal photographers, he instead of capturing a moment, makes it himself, using production crew, cinematic lighting, actors etc. He spends days creating these images just to get one single perfect moment/shot. Crewdson himself doesn’t like holding the camera, he is more interested in the final outcome, the images, the camera is just a necessary instrument. He is his own director of photography and own camera operator, but does not take the image himself. For a set of 6 photographs, he spent 11 days make several multiple exposures in different locations, setting up sets for these images, which are then digitally combined to create the 6 digital images. They sell for around 60 thousand dollars, but he’ll only create 6 prints of each image.
Which prints command the highest price & what are they called?
Usually the highest prints are the photographs that are printed by the photographer himself, closest to the time that the photograph was actually taken, these prints are known as vintage.
What is a Fake photograph? Give an example and explain how & why it is fake.
A fake photograph is reproducing a photograph/negative that is known to be only have been produced originally so many times, so it is reproducing to deceive. In the early 20th century, Lewis Hine used his photography to fight for social change, and to celebrate the dignity of labour. But 50 years after his death his photographs had become highly collectable. In 1999 Peter McGill brought a print of the ‘Power House Mechanics’, he was told it was 1 of 2 and it was warm toned, big, signed and stamped on the back, everything a collector looks for. It was then reproduced and was popping up every where, Michael Matters had also brought it, but as a theoretical physicist thought he could get to the bottom of these sudden reproductions through science. He developed lots of data criteria for photographic paper, and for the reproduced photograph he noticed there was a chemical on the paper called OBAs that were only put into photographical paper, only starting in 1955, but Hyne died in 1940, so could not be one of his original prints. Hyne’s former darkroom assistant, Walter Rosenbloom, finally admitted to reproducing his work for profiting from the demand.
Who is Li Zhensheng and what is he famous for?
Li Zhensheng is a photo journalist who from the 1960/70's found himself covering the cultural revolution.
What is the photographers “holy of holies”?
Magnum Photography Agency is photojournalism’s ‘holy of holies’.
How does Ben Lewis see Jeff Walls photography?
Jeff Walls didn’t reinvent photography, but he took photography back to the 19th century where everything is created, the people, the light, everything is created for a meaning, He also fed in a lot of contemporary theoretical concerns, about gender and how man and women look at each other, racial stereotyping.
Which famous photograph was taken by “Frank Mustard”?
Came Silve, ‘River Scene France’.
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