Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Text Notes 1

William Kentridge


Why does he use charcoal for his medium in his drawings and videos?

It lends itself to erasing and reworking.


Do all of his works deal with the political happenings in South Africa?

Yes and events that have happened to him and everyone in South Africa.


How does he create his works?

He uses about 20 drawings that he adds to and erases from to make a story.


Unlike our first project his inspiration comes from external sources instead of himself or his identity. The way he influences his characters in his artworks by real happenings in South Africa, like Nelson Mandela’s release from prison, show how much he himself as well as the rest of South Africa is influenced by it.


Nan Goldin


Why does she choose to take such raw pictures?

The pictures are a documentation of her life


Does she create a story with her pictures?

The pictures, because she takes them of people she knows throughout their lives, does create a story in a sense.


What made her choose photography as her medium?

She likes the instant of photography. Ever since she was a teen she liked to chronicle each day as it happened. Her sister’s suicide also pushed her to take photographs.


She uses photography to express herself which I hope to do one day when I become a photographer. She chooses to follow outcasts and be one instead of trying to be normal like most people would. I admire that nothing is off limits and she will always take pictures and not trying to change what happened.

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