Artists as photographers

The relationship between artists and photographers Degas It is generally accepted that Degas used photographs for his dancer paintings. The composition and detail of his paintings were aided by photographic images, and the cropping of figures at the edge is a result of photography's influence. The photographs were taken during the 1800’s. Anton Giulio Bragaglia Anton Giulio Bragaglia was the intellectual leader of Italian Futurist photography; he made his photographs in collaboration with his younger brother Arturo Bragaglia. Early 1900’s.

Man Ray Man Ray made his “Rayographs" or ‘Photograms’ without a camera by placing objects directly on a sheet of photosensitive paper and exposing it to light. Most of these pieces were produced during the 1920’s. Andy Warhol Screen printing can be layered to achieve multiple colours, which we see in much of Andy Warhol's works. When Warhol broke into the screen print scene in 1962, he used his own drawings for the stencils, but later he used photo-silkscreens, which used a template of a photograph as the stencil.

Gerhard Richter Gerhard Richter is a German visual artist. Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, and also photographs and glass pieces. Black and white paintings produced in the 1960’s. David Hockney In the early 1980’s, English painter David Hockney began creating intricate photo collages that he called “joiners”. His earlier collages consisted of grid-like compositions made up of polaroid photographs. He then switched to photo lab processed 35mm photographs and created collages that took on a shape of their own, creating abstract representations of the scenes he had photographed.

Tom Hunter Tom Hunter is an artist using photography and film, living and working in East London. Hunter re-creates famous paintings using contemporary photography. Hunter photographs the people and places of his local community. ‘Woman Reading Possession Order’, (1998) is part of a series of work he made of a group of squatters living in Hackney. In this photo, Hunter copies the composition and colours from Vermeer’s ‘A Girl Reading At An Open Window’.