Q1: How Many photographs are taken in a a year?
A1: 880 Billion
Q2: How does Gregory Crewdson work?
A2: Crewdson works with a production crew from a film, using cinematic lighting. He also has a director of photography and camera operator because he does not touch the camera himself. He just calls it a required 'instrument'.
Q3: Which prints command the highest price & what are they called?
A3: The prints that command the highest price are those taken by the photographer themselves at the time of the actual event, called 'vintage' or 'original'.
Q4: How does Ben Lewis see Jeff Walls photography?
A4: Lewis sees Walls as a photographer who did not invent photography but as a man who brought it back into the 21st century. He admires how his work call social concerns into focus such as gender and racial stereotyping.
Q5: How many photographs does Andreas Gursky produce and what scale are they?
A5: Gursky produces 2 photographs and they cover more square meters than any other photographers work in any gallery.
Q6: What makes the photographs of Seydou Keita different from the photographs of Africa in the media?
A6: In Keita's photography people are shown, no matter their actual lifestyle, to be wealthy as they are photographed with many clothes, bikes, scooters and cars.
One photographer from the documentary whose work I liked was Robert Adams.
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