Slideshow 8/3

Alec Soth - Niagra series.

- looking at niagra as a wedding destination

- very gentle and ironic - very contempory, not theatrical or dramatic.

- observing. leaving the viewer to make up their own mind of the place.

Bert Teunissen - domestic interiors.

- series of images (mostly in southern europe) looking at the way in which people present their houses.

- looking at memoriabilia etc.

- amazing use of natural light.

Bill Owens. - Suburbia

- 1970's America.

- talks to people etc + gives subjects the oppertunity to make a comment.

- its a critique

Edward Burtynsky

- high angles, almost a gods eye view.

- images of quarries

- monumental scale

- textural elements

- modernist out of the modern era

- beautiful images of disturbing things

- is he critiquing, or is he mutual? - is he just an observer or does he have an agenda?


Gregory Crewdson

- theatre. complete constructions.

- very cinematic and dramatic. from smalltown american cities etc. very surreal. whole film crew is needed for the shoots.

Harriet Logan - woman under the teleban

Sandy Sorlien -

50 states. 50 houses.

- a travelling project of 'house portraits'. one photo from each state to summarise each state in a house.

- shot in infared.

Simon Roberts - the russian riveria

Tom Paiva - Industrial night.

- LA. long exposures

- looking at non spaces - unresolved town places.