Photography Artist - Sophie Calle, Nan Goldin

Sophie Calle is a French writer, photographer, installation artist, and conceptual artist. Calle's work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constraints, and evokes the French literary movement of the 1960s known as Oulipo. Her work frequently depicts human vulnerability, and examines identity and intimacy. She is recognized for her detective-like ability to follow strangers and investigate their private lives. Her photographic work often includes panels of text of her own writing. - wikipedia

Her work has an interesting concept to it, but not many of them are something I'd want to hang on my wall or even use as my desktop background image. I don't really see the art in following someone around recording their life. I think that's actually kind of boring.

Nan Goldin is an American photographer. The main themes of her early pictures are love, gender, domesticity, and sexuality; these frames are usually shot with available light. She has affectionately documented women looking in mirrors, girls in bathrooms and barrooms, drag queens, sexual acts, and the culture of obsession and dependency. The images are viewed like a private journal made public. - wikipedia

Her work seems to be less about the image and more about the action. The pictures aren't pleasant to look at, but she is more focused on documenting what is there. Many of the images are dark or just weird. She did a good job showing us how things are, but not in any way that makes me want to see them.