Professor Eli Craven
Is Photography Over or is Photography Dead?
Is Photography Over or is Photography Dead?
- Craven says no
- Everyone takes photos on cell phones millions of times everyday
- First photograph taken was of a fire hydrant (Black and White)
- Self taught, built own darkroom in sisters basement
- Just observed friends and family
- Killed his passion doing weddings
- Later returned to photography, staying in this field
- Sleeping in Other People's Bed's" series
- Most intimate spaces of people
- Took other people's work and made collages of them
- commenting on something else that already exists
- Now manipulates 2D and 3D spaces
- disagrees with person who said they dislike photography as art.
- John Edmonds- work regarding public perception (Hoods)
- Maurizio Cattelan- play on advertising (Spaghetti toilet paper)