Thursday 17 January 2013

Portraiture

Portrait's are generally staged photography, its generally shot from waist to just above head height.

Larry Clarke

-very unconventional , not seen before because of its impolite genre/ content.
-people describe his photo's more like a diary, very similar to photjournalism as he records events that happen.
- his work contains alot of nudity and drugs from normal people in nice homes. not like the photos produced by
-managed to get these photos as he was an insider 'a kid hanging out with a camera in his hands'. he was going about what he usual would with his friends but just decided to photograph.
               'photographing your own tribe
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compared to robert frank
Robert Frank







http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2010/oct/08/larry-clark-paris-banned-photographs#/?picture=367470007&index=0
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzlZLo5OqofVLTlLbVAteUdzTmc/edit?pli=1
http://www.luhringaugustine.com/artists/larry-clark/#
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/feb/17/photography.exhibition1