Genius of Photography Part 5

1) Diane Arbus said that 'the camera gave me licence to strip away what you want people to know about you, to reveal what you cant help people knowing about you'.  1960's
2) I think some photographers do prey on vulnerable people.
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4)Diane Arbus may have committed suicide for reasons unknown to us, however the chances are that she felt ill at ease with herself and struggled with fame and some of the bad press she may have received for her art.
5)Larry Clark shot Tulsa by living with a commune of  young adults and constantly taking pictures of whatever he wanted as everyone was so drug addled and 'free'. I believe he wanted to shock and enjoyed the sense of bohemianism, although he may not have given much thought to any other sort of affect his pictures might have had other than to shock and or notoriety.
6)An example of confessional photography is the work of Nan Goldin. She documented intimate moments in her own life and those of her friends. She experienced abuse and documented this. She focuses on issues in society such as the third gender. The impolite genre is presented in Larry Clark's work such as Tulsa where things that people would normally perceive as shocking are depicted graphically such as drug taking and sexual activity.
7) Araki will not photograph anything he does not wish to remember.
8)The premise of post modernism is to question common thinking, it focuses on the individuals interpretation of the world through experience. Cindy Sherman's typologies of women in movie stills challenged viewers perceptions in an 'image saturated world'.