The Genius of Photography, Part 5: We are Family

1. Who said: "The camera gave me license to strip away what you want people to know about you, to reveal what you can't help people knowing you"?

Ans: Diane Arbus

2. Do you think that photographers tend to pray on vulnerable people?

Ans: Yes they tend to because they photograph people who are homeless or on the streets
and these people are easy access.

3. What is Larry Clark's Tulsa project about?

Ans: It was about is own life in Tulsa Oklahoma hanging around with friends, taking drugs.

4. What is the title of Nan Goldin's most renowned work?

Ans: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

5. What Araki's photographs now? What is his philosophy?

Ans: He only photographs what he wants to remember. His philosophy is that if you don't shoot photography you wont remember much so having photographs does help him remember

6. What was Richard Billingham's work about?

Ans: It was about is own dysfunctional family at home, his alcoholic father and also his obese, tattooed mother.

I chose to display the photography of Larry Clark on my blog because I find his work fascinating. I think the photographs that he takes are astonishingly real and provocative.

Below are 5 photographs taken by Larry Clark that I selected for that reason