Indications of Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, Hubert Selby Jr., as well as various cinema and photography references, make it clear that creative interpretation and philosophy were on the minds of these gentlemen during this process (and rightfully so seeing as they were in college at the time).
@franburns Stylist and contributing fashion editor to Vogue, Fran Burns posts a glorious stream of classic fashion photography and references.
When art historians discuss the way artists use photography as references for other works, to record scenes they have staged, or as an inquiry into the nature of photography itself, they often cite Ed Ruscha, Gerhard Richter, or Cindy Sherman.
In a statement describing Hometowns, Aaron Schuman, an art-world peer, describes MacLean's photography as "referencing and reverberating with intimations of each of his 'heroes', MacLean's photographs are striking original, visually arresting and deeply personal in their own right.
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Cole is a master of Twitter – he mixes brilliant bon mots, vignettes of poetry, art, pop culture references, photography (like this series on celebrities watching themselves on television) and quotes to make his timeline an always entertaining read.
[32] In my book "Believing Is Seeing" I tried to emphasize the importance of reference in photography — to uncovering the relationship between a photograph and the world.
Predominantly a painter, her first experience of photography was casually snapping reference images in the Brooklyn neighborhood around her studio.
They became proud of my photography and had a reference to show what life is like in Englewood beyond the crime that people only want to focus on," Johnson says.
His use of a spotlight references Western photography's intrusive and often invasive quality seen in Western reports of other cultures.
