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.
The photo shoots reference the practice of drawing and painting; then the final graphite drawing references photography.
[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.
His use of a spotlight references Western photography's intrusive and often invasive quality seen in Western reports of other cultures.
They could barely name anything with a reference outside of photography, he recalled.
Perhaps the most lavishly decorated photography reference room in the world, it has ornately painted ceilings and the public are not normally admitted.
What I see in his students are references to straight photography, but they're also introducing ideas about performance and issues of gender and identity, particularly the women".
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).
"The iconic, formal poses in the photos are a reference to old fashion photography, and are completely at odds with how we played with the pristine, expensive objects in the shots," he says.
Peter mentions that his father taught him human reproduction using a jigsaw puzzle of "Ms. July", a reference to a glamour photography shot of an unknown Playboy model used in calendars to differentiate each month of the year.
