Chapter 9 Notes (Conceptual Art ~ Tony Godfrey)

Chapter 9 Notes – Looking at Others

• -          Mel Bochner cared more about how we use photography to conceptualize our lives
• -          More about analysis than the medium
• -          How the photographs are used to make meanings
• -          ‘The photograph is a lie’ ~ Carl Andre
• -          Art is meant to be a direct experience
• -          Has to be looked at from many perspectives
• -          Huebler saw that people get self-conscious when looking into a camera but this can be helped by telling them they’re beautiful
• -          Camera can be used as a ‘duplicating devise’
• -          Different versions of reality
• -          The title/text can relate an image to a particular reading
• -          Thinking can be more crucial than the photograph
• -          Both a critique of representation and a critique of vision
• -          Colour – for holiday snapshots while black/white – art photography
• -          ‘Narrative art’ – expresses emotions and sets off thinking
• -          Advertising – shows myths and ideology of our society
• -          Desire = a sense of lacking
• -          Consciousness = the space we create around ourselves
• -          Photography relates to the unreal of realism