Photography: Photo IV: Week Ten Due: April 14, Thursday before 3:30 pm

Photo IV: Week Ten Due: April 14, Thursday before 3:30 pm

Chapter 5

Spectacles and Illusions

Photography and commodity culture

Anandi Ramamurthy

Chapter Five: review and application of chapter five theories to contemporary art and your own work:

Read Society of the Spectacle:
http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SI/en/pub_contents/4

(There are 10 chapters. Please, read as much as you can. Remember, the more you read, the more you learn)

Then find an artist from the following links and relate anything whatsoever from the Society of the Spectacle to the artist's work. Post at least one image from the artist with full citation and link back to the site where you located the image. Write as much as you can explaining how the artist's work relates to the Society of the Spectacle. Use specific quotes from Guy DeBord to support your position.
Then state if you think that the artist's work contains a critique of commodity culture or if you think the artist's work supports commodity culture - or both - and explain why

guy bourdin

http://www.guybourdin.org/

helmet newton

http://www.helmutnewton.com/

http://www.lehmannmaupin.com/#/exhibitions/2009-02-24_the-glamour-project/

laurie simmons

http://www.lauriesimmons.net/

paul kwiatkowski

http://paulkmedia.com/

crackerfarm (aka Lindsay Rome and Mike Beyer)
http://www.crackerfarm.com/index.html

pieter hugo
http://www.pieterhugo.com/

takashi homma

http://www.kanazawa21.jp/data_list.php?g=80&d=56&lng=e

http://www.operacity.jp/ag/exh129/j/exhibition.html