The Genius of Photography: Part 5

1.Who said “ The camera gave me the license to strip away what you want people to know about you, to reveal what you can’t help people knowing about you”, and when was it said?
 Diane Arbus

2.Do photographers tend to prey on vulnerable people?
It has been a controversial subject over the decades on whether photographers prey on vulnerable people. The photographer can either feel empathy and compassion for the subject matter, or simply be driven by their story and to expose them socially, culturally and economically.

3.Who is Colin Wood?
Colin Wood is the subject within Arbus's 'Child with toy hand grenade in Central Park' (1962)

4.Why do you think Diane Arbus committed suicide?
 I believe Diane Arbus committed suicide in 1971 because of her lack of self esteem and her insecuries within herself. It was said that whils capturing images of several different people, she was in fact recognising her own insecuries.

5.Why and how did Larry Clark shoot “Tulsa”?
Larry Clark first published the book 'Tulsa' In 1971, in which he gives an insight into his own life involving drugs, sex, violence and gunplay.

6.Try to explain the concept of “confessional photography”, and what is the “impolite genre”?
Confessional photography concerns photographs that show the truth and reality of life, such as intimate scenes people tend to ignore. Impolite genre on the other hand sees such photographs as uncomfortable to look at, casting them as disturbing and shocking.

7.What will Araki not photograph, and why?
Araki captures images of everything around him to help him remember his memories. He said he will only photograph things that he wants to remember.

8.What is the premise of Postmodernism?
The 'premise of postmodernism is that we live in a century that is so filled with media imagery and examples of how people should live their lives that the previous ideas of this has now become a myth.