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41 Cards in this Set
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pictorialism
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-serious, artistic photography
-expression of beauty -exotic printing techniques, not a high degree of sharpness |
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Photo-Secession
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-pictorialist photo club in United States
-founded by Stieglitz -invitation only- Clarence White, Edward Stiechen, Gertrude Kasebier, Alvin Langdon Coburn |
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Camera Work
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-photo journal founded by Stieglitz
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Stieglitz's art gallery
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gum bichromate print
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-paper print
-multiple exposures w/ various colors, mixtures with other print types -do-it-yourself, not sharp |
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platinum/palladium print
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-paper print using light-sensitive iron salts
-manufactured product before WWI, not a do-it-yourself -long tonal scales and permanence, moody feel |
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photogravure
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-ink printing process
-no half-tone screen -copper plate etched w/ acid |
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autochrome
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-positive color transparency by Lumiere
-used dyed potato starch -pastel |
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vortograph
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Alvin Langdon Coburn- first completely abstract photographs
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Sunrise
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Karl Struss-won academy award for cinematography for this movie
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People of the Twentieth Century
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August Sander's grand project- divided into 7 categories
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Zone System
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-Edward Weston's precisionist style was basis of zone system
-developed by Ansel Adams -precise exposure, development, and printing |
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f/64
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-group of west coast modernist photographers
-Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham |
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futurism
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-leader Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
-started with poetry -in Italy- aimed to reject past and make it more modern -machines and speed |
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modernism
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-artistic movement which consciously aim to to break fundamentally w/ historical styles
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photodynamism
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-photographic exposures of a half second or more which recorded movement in smears
-Anton Giulio Bragaglia |
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constructivism
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-artistic movement in Russia after Oct. Revolution of 1917
-dismissed pure art in favor of art used for the construction of socialism |
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Man with a Movie Camera
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silent documentary film by Dziga Vertov
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Dada
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-anarchic anti-rational, anti-art artistic movement
-started in Zurich -unorthodox techniques, performances, and provocations |
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Bauhaus
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-art and industrial design school in Germany
-founded by architects -modern building |
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Institute of Design
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Laszlo Moholy-Nagy founded the New Bauhaus in Chicago- still there as the Institute of Design
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Straight Photography
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the standard "technically correct" product: in focus, un-blurred, highly detailed prints that show their subjects as fully as possible
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Surrealism
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-development of Dada, very interested in psychology (dreams, nightmares)
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Blood of a Poet
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Jean Cocteau's film with Lee Miller in it
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I was Hitler's Prisoner
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-book by Stefan Lorant
-had been in "protective custody" by Hitler for almost a year |
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Paris at Night
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-book by Brassai
-most remembered for this book -back streets, music halls, bars, brothels, opium dens |
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Changing New York
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-personal project of Berenice Abbot's, worked on for a decade
-photos like Atget's in Paris |
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F.S.A
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-Farm Security Administration
-Roosevelt's program, obsure agricultural program -Roy Stryker- boss -Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, Gordon Parks, Dorothea Lange |
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Kodachrome
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-color film
-first successfully mass-marketed color still film using a subtractive method |
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American Photographs
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-Book by Walker Evans
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Life
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-magazine started by Henry Luce
-Margaret Bourke-White, Robert Capa, Berenice Abbott, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Martin Munkacsi, Edward Stiechen, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston, etc |
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Magnum
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-photographer owned picture agency
-Henri Cartier-Bresson with Robert Capa |
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Aperture
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magazine started by Minor White, Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, Beaumont Newhall
-became the Camera Work of the second half of the 20th century |
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G.I. Bill
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after war, those who served got free schooling
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Family of Man
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very successful book and MoMA exhibition by Edward Stiechen
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MoMA
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Museum of Modern Art
(Newhall, Stiechen) |
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Road to Victory
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MoMA exhibition organized by Stiechen, designed by Herbert Bayer
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street photography
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-urban way of working that avoids ordinary subjects and careful composition in a free-wheeling search for temporary conjunctions of subject and form that are sensed rather than seen by the photographer roaming the sidewalk
-Garry Winogrand, Lisette Model, Diane Arbus |
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The Americans
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-book by Robert Frank
-closely modeled on Walker's 'American Photographs' -mainstream reaction to the book was negative |
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Life is Good and Good for You in New York
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-book by William Klein
-published first in France, couldn't find an American publisher -aggressive technique, like paparazzi |
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Amazonas Images
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Sebastiao Salgado and wife's agency
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