The Genius of
Photography, Part 5: We Are Family
Q1. Who said: “The
camera gave me the license to strip away what you want people to know about
you, to reveal what you can’t help people knowing about you”?
A. The female photographer Diane Arbus said this quote.
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A Jewish giant at home with his parents in the Bronx, N.Y. 1970
Diane Arbus |
Q2. Do you think that photographers tend to prey on vulnerable people?
A. No I don’t think that photographers intend to prey on vulnerable people but that the photos they take of this people and then put them on display in shows does make it seem that way.
Q3. What is Larry Clark’s Tulsa project
about?
A. Larry Clark’s photo book Tulsa is
about his young life in Tulsa, Oklahoma which conceded of hanging out with
friends, taking drugs, trying to get laid and fooling around with guns.
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| Shooting up amphetamine, 1971, Larry Clark. |
Q4. What is the title of Nan Goldin’s most renowned work?
A. The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
is the title of Nan Goldin’s most renowned work. It consists of 900 slides
featuring her friends and adopted family.
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| Nan and Brain in bed, 1986, Nan Goldin. |
Q5. What does Araki photograph? And what is his “philosophy”?
A. Araki photographs everything but focuses on his daily life and sexual
exploitations. His philosophy is he doesn’t shoot what he doesn’t want to remember
but he shoots what he does want to remember.
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| Winter Journey, 1990, Nobuyoshi Araki. |
Q6. What was Richard Billingham’s work about?
A. Richard Billingham’s work Ray’s
a Laugh was about the portrayal of the deprivation and poverty he grew up
in as a child.
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| Ray's a Laugh, 1996, Richard Billingham. |
