The Genius of Photography (PART 6)

1. How many photographs are taken in a year?
80 Billion photographs will be taken this year alone.

2. What is Gregory Crewdson 'Modus Operandi'?
Gregory has a disconnected relationship with photography conventions, instead he has his own art director and camera operator and they work together to recreate and portray a single photograph and work it much the same way has a movie. He is only interested in the actual image. He will to a series of multiple exposures and digitally combine to make final image, selling them approximately $60,000 each.

3. Which prints command the highest price and what are they called?
Photo prints are worth a lot more when the phoographer has made and developed it themselves closest to the time the picture was taken. The Pond Moonlight by Edward Steichen was the most expensive photograh ever sold, $2,600,000 was the final bidding price!

4. What is a fake photograph? Give an example and explain how and why it is fake.
You need the negatives of the photo to prove that they are not fake.

5. Who is Li Zhesheng and what is he famous for?
He was a red army news soldier, who was a photojournalist in the 1960s - early 70s who covered the Cultural Revolution.

6. What is the photographers 'Holy of Holies?'
British photographer Martin Parr joined to be a photojournalist in 1994 for a prestigious agency Magnum - known as the Holy of Holies. However his photos were said to be meaningless but he had to battle to bring his distinctive brand of photography into photojournalism.

7. How does Ben Lewis see Jeff Walls photography?
Ben Lewis thinks that Jeff's photography took photography back to the 19th century and did not re-invent but took it back to painting where everything is creative, the people and light contruct the meaning. He brought in theory elements, how men and women look at eachother and about racial stereo-typing.

8. Which famous photograph was taken by Frank Mustard?
'River Scene France' which was said to be taken by Camille Silvy a french photographer however it was actually taken by Frank Mustard. Camille Silvy aranged where the people should stand, changing the sky and leaves to be artifical but didn't actually take the photo just manipulated it.