1.
How
many photographs are taken in a year?
According to the documentary 80 billion photographs are
taken in a year.
2.
How
does Gregory Crewdson work?
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| Gregory Crewdson |
Gregory Crewdson’s work is very unusual compared to most of
others photographers’ work. He works with big productions, cinematic lighting,
props and with a crew, which is mostly composed by people who have worked with
film. It sounds and looks like a movie although it’s not - all this to get one
single perfect shot. Gregory Crewdson doesn’t work with the camera – doesn’t
take the actual picture himself – he actually just directs it. As Crewdson said
in the documentary, he is “truly interested in images and the camera is just a
necessary instrument”. Gregory reproduces just a few copies of each picture and
each of them is worth
thousands of dollars.
3.
Which
prints command the highest price and what are they called?
The prints that command the highest price are usually the ones,
which were made by the photographer himself closest to the time the picture was
actually taken. They are called vintage photos.
4.
How
many photographs Andreas Gursky produces and what scale (size) are they?
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| Bahrain I - Andreas Gursky 2005 |
Andreas Gursky shoots many pictures but he doesn’t
bring all of them to the market (actually just a few are used). He keeps them
in his archive. In two years and a half he produced just two works, one in
Monaco and another one in Bahrain. Andreas Gursky’s pictures are nowadays very big;
some of them even have the size of a wall.
5.
What is
different on Seydou Keita’s pictures of Africa from what we usually see?
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| Seydou Keita |
Seydou Keita was a studio photographer of national renown
who used to take pictures of middle to upper class people in Africa. He had
many desirable props for his clients to pose with them like if they were their
own. For example, cars, bicycles, etc. Thus, the main difference from his pictures
to what we normally see is that he doesn’t portray Africa as ‘just’ a poor
place with people starving and in the most chaotic situations. Seydou Keita as
an insider goes away from this stereotyped view and he shows the wealthy side
of Africa enhancing the beauty of its culture and its people.
è The photographer I liked the most was
Seydou Keita. Here there are five photos made by him:
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