Conceptual

Regardless of tool and form and material Content/idea is more emphasized

What makes you look at art one more time

Based on looking photography for conceptual art: what you look at is represent idea

Why important to photograph apple concrete idea persuade viewer

Content not formulated no reason to look at work

Photography most conceptual art form phot represent idea

Nature represent memory believe is real

Marking territory of memory when take photo

Ken Josephson

Pictorial experiments how we perceive photos transformation when 3 d transcribed into 2d

Photo has own visual code that creates illusion always there not looking at reality but picture of reality

Photo insert into original photo

                Layering time; cannot trust photos because of manipulation; one vantage point; remember places?

Postcard became representation of picture in mind

Reference to how camera works

Truth of photo ; viewer perspectives and influences

Rene Magritte-painting challenge reality like josephson obscured by painting how made accessories

Metaphoric fixated of image perspective

John Pfahl

Exquisite landscape

Installation artist

Alters space for depth and flatness

Brain think before analyze

Sense of space questionable

String compress foreground and background

Zeke berman

Georges Rousse

Similar optical illusion transforming architectural space by painting the space

Vantage point perspective

Very different around each point

David hockney

Explore composite and collage images challenges singular perspective of photo

Create movement natural to eyes

Challenege space chairs repetitive

How we enter the image

Vic muniz

Appropriate artist

Questions values of art system

Game child playing

Common mundane objects

Yasumasa morimura

Digital manipulation

Paint background turn into photo for backdrop

Questions on assumptions on western documentation

Western assumption of importance

Art history start with western. Why not eastern?

Create own history

Same value now that main subject is Asian

Question hierarchical education system of west describe feminism or masculine

Concept of male gays

Carrie mae weems

1980

Race and color

Colored people: tinted with colors conceptual challenges how we use the term color to label people

System of language

Skin tone values

Lora simpson

Notion of class race gender age defining people obscure

Manipulate memory and mind

Reading of image vs text

Media dictatorship

Gillian wearing

British artist uses models for performances

Shizuku yokomizo

Strangers

Ruth thorne thomsen

Pin hole camera

Dream like surrealistic

Aberaldo morell

Photo roots

Render capture camerless photo camera obscure

Perform quality

Adam fuss

Susan derges

Pioneered

Landscape as darkroom

Submerge paper in river with artificial lights is moon to expose what is around her