John Baldessari is an American conceptualist artist and originated in National City, California. He started with statements about art, but soon realized art could be more and had these early paintings cremated. He has shouted to the world, "I will not make any more boring art" and that is what he has done to this day. Baldessari is known for taking pictures of himself in intentionally bad compositions and frames the photograph while exclaiming it is wrong. It is that juxtaposition of the picture being hung on the wall for everyone to see and with the illogical composition that draws Baldessari a lot of attention. these photographs are not limited to what he takes, or what he takes with himself in it, but also film stills. Baldessari is even more famous for putting dots over people's faces. He wants society to slow down. If for a second to have a person look at his work and say, "what did i just see". He said, "He is tired at looking at people's faces. Instead why not slow down and look at their clothes or what they are doing". Baldessari has also influenced many artists to this day like Cindy Sherman, another film still appropriator.
Brandon is the creator of a site entitled Humans of New York. He used to be a bond trader in Chicago. He was making money for three years doing this job, but then things went south. He is currently living in New York City putting his history major to good use documenting stories of New Yorkers. his photos are online at: http://www.humansofnewyork.com/tagged/featured. They are very simplistic. It is primarily just the person wherever he was one day and the subject's story.
Matthew Caraway is a physicist with a hobby for taking photographs of people and nature. Sometimes he mergers fiction with real life. Here is a shot of a person standing outside and he creatively joins the comedy that is pokemon snap with reality. Everywhere the photographer went in the game, a poke ball followed at the center of the camera.
I liked how you described the work: thoughtful and curious.
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