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 said it in the early 1960s.
2. Do photographers tend to prey on vulnerable people?
It has been a controversial subject over the decades on whether photographers do that. They can be compassioned about the subject or just driven by their hungry eyes but most of the cases they are simply curious.
3. Who is Colin Wood?
He was a skinny 6 years old boy when Diane Arbus took pictures of him in Central Park in 1962.
4. Why do you think Diane Arbus committed suicide?
She had great empathy for her subjects, maybe too much and she always wanted to be someone else but herself. She probably thought that photography can change that but it couldn't.
5. Why and how did Larry Clark shoot "Tulsa"?
In his hands photography became as personal as a written diary because he was an 'insider', he lived with his subjects, they were his friends and family. He wanted to give an insight of his life, of things no one wanted to know about.
6. Try to explain the concept of "confessional photography", and what is the "impolite genre"?
Confessional photography tries to capture the reality and intimity of life. Larry Clark opened up a new genre, the impolite genre, which basically does the same but with really nasty things that no one wants to know about.
7. What will Araki not photograph and why?
There is nothing Araki won't photograph. He takes photographs because he wants to remember, so the things he didn't take pictures of are the things he doesn't want to remember. Everything else is captured.
8. What is the premise of Post-modernism?
It's premise is that we now live in a culture full of media imagery and media models of how people live that our idea of how one lives and who one is, is made up with that kind of media myth.
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