Photography 362W

Cara Barer is a Houston based photographer. Her body of work contains and is mostly comprised of a series of photographs that are of the pages of books presented in an uncommon, manipulated and destroyed matter. She transforms the common form of the book into uncommon forms for photography through sculpture, and this allows her to explore a variety of forms with a common basis. This however, allows her work to become quickly redundant and repetitive though her photographs stay consistent and technically proficient.

Sally Mann is an American photographer who gained attention as an artist due to the controversial content of her work. The majority of the body of her work deals with the lives of her immediate family. The images contained in this series depict her children, who were  all under the age of ten when the photographs were shot. Though the children are shown in childish and playful poses in some images, some are shown to be dark and adult. This in addition to the children not wearing clothing made her intentions highly questionable. The photgraphs in this series, though compositionally brilliant and technically printed very well, are very posed and somewhat stoic in nature. The provocative nature of the poses and the lack of clothing are what caused the series to become popular, or at least controversial, which, in turn, led to a notoriety of Mann as a photographer.