Richard Billingham-
-British Photographer that photographed his alcoholic father, large mother and unruly brother 1990-1996.
-On one hand his work as read as a political documentary targeted to the upper middle class and addresses the working class poverty of the 1990's.
-On the other hand with the 1990's witnessing a rapid expansion of reality television culture, was interpreted as an entertaining drama.
-Billingham would exploit is family for is career.
-"After I did the family pictures , I soon realised that people like the family pictures for reason that I never intended ... there are very few people, I think, that get beyond the subject matter and can identify the artists intention... they just like to look at my mum's tattoos or the stains on the wall paper or the dirty floor" Richard Billingham.
-If the viewer sees poverty in his images they are not reading the images the way he intended, he wants boredom and addiction to be seen.
-The reason I like these images if because Billingham doesn't care if his family is going to be judged because of the photographs, he just wants to show what a day in a life in his family is like even if his family or the images aren't perfect.
Philip Lorca Dicorcia-
-Uses hidden lighting.
-Initially he photographed close friends and family members in low key intimate situations, looked real but strangely lightened.
-Mood or atmosphere is important in all of his images.
-Hustlers series, posed real life rent boys in locations he had chosen. Images looked oddly innocent and day dreamy, they make you wonder about identity. The illusion of innocence was contradicted by his decisions to include in the title captions the amount he had paid them for their time.
-His Polaroids are not as dramatically powerful or intellectually challenging as his bigger works, but they cast light on his intensely cerebral decision making and the instinctive ebb and his flow of his art. And, as artifacts, they possess a singular beauty in and of themselves.
-I like his work as when seeing an image you are questioning weather it is staged or reality.
Weegee-
-Photographer and photojournalist known for this Black and White street photography.
-Was a press photographer in New York City in the 30's and 40's.
-He developed his signature style by following the city emergency services and documenting their activity.
-Main themes were life, crime, injury and death.
-Some pictures were staged some were reality.
-He was a self taught photographer and developed his photographs in his homemade dark room in the back of his car.
-Naked City 1945 was his first book of photography.
-Reason I like his work is also because you are left guessing weather it is staged or not, also the black and white I feel makes the images more emotional especially when they are of injured or dead people.
Other Artist Models-
Robert Frank-
Dorothea Lange-
