Robert Yager (aka Johnny Rotten), the lead singer of The Sex Pistols, is a freelance photographer that began documenting the lives of various gang members in Los Angeles gang scene in 1991. The most reoccurring gang in his photographs are the Playboys. In addition to his area that focuses on
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Tulsa is a series of graphic photographs of troubled youth in Tulsa, Oklahoma shot by Larry Clark. The book feature’s some very powerful images of young people in the town shooting amphetamine’s, having sex, and toting weapons. At the time he shot the photographs, Clark was a drug addict and
Recently, a Canadian art school student came under fire when a heart was found in a trash can near his house. This caused suspicion by local authorities, who jumped to the worst conclusion and concluded that this must be a human heart. The student didn’t respond with panic because the
Robert Yager is British born photographer who is known for documenting Los Angeles street gangs. Yager was raised in a poor family and learned about “the cholo” first hand when he as living in a trailer park. Being white, he was a minority and saw a taste of what it
Bill Henson is a renowned Australian artist that has spurred controversy in the art world regarding his photographs of nude children. In 2008 at the Roslyn Oxley9 gallery in Sydney, police seized around 21 photos of naked children and threatened to charge the artist for child pornography. The police raid
Graham Stuart Ovenden, born in 1943 in Hampshire, is famous for his paintings and photographs of semi-nude or completely nude, pre-teen girls. Ovenden graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1968, and carried much authority in the world of Victorian artwork. Although his work has always been of controversy,
Spencer Tunic is a Contemporary photographer famous for his projects involving hundreds, or even thousands of nude volunteers posing for him in public. Tunic claims that, “These grouped masses which do not underscore sexuality become abstractions that challenge or reconfigure one’s views of nudity, privacy and the environment.” Tunic shot
The news today is filled with stories of victims of race based aggression and violence. Black pride and civil rights fight against white supremacy and oppression. These tensions have lead to horrible injustice that mirrors the monstrosities that occurred before and during the last civil rights movement; tension between African
Richard Prince Copyright Case: Appeals Court Rules In Favor Of Appropriation Artist By LARRY NEUMEISTER 04/25/13 07:37 PM ET EDT NEW YORK — Painter and photographer Richard Prince, whose works have sold for millions of dollars, did not violate copyrights with most of the paintings and collages he based on
In a complicated twist of mild voyeurism and exhibitionism, this woman makes what I consider art, in the form of capturing others responses to her presence in front of a tripod and camera. Photographer Haley Morris-Cafiero explains, “I now reverse the gaze and record their reactions to me while I