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71 Cards in this Set
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Bernice Abbot |
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Man Ray |
-The photographer that best reflects this era of 22 years after W.W.I is the American, Man Ray who founded the Dada Movement w/ Duchamp and was also a Surrealist. -He opened a portrait studio in Paris which was very successful |
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Bernice Abbot |
1921 she became the assistant to the photographer Man Ray -started taking portraiture when Man Ray's customers asked for her instead of Man Ray. Man Ray didn't like this and so Bernice quit her job w/Man Ray and opened up her own studio which was very successful. -influenced by Atget and was the person responsible for making him well known |
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Bernice Abbot |
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Man Ray |
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Man Ray |
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Andre Kertesz |
-Hungarian photographer who as early as 1915 was taking sensitive, unposed photographs of people amid their surroundings using a small, hand, held plate camera. (street photographer) -First photo he took was of the Eiffel Tour from his hotel window. -After moving to Paris, he starts using the Leica 35mm camera. -Did whole series of nudes taken in distorted carnival mirrors. |
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Andre Kertesz |
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Henri Cartier-Bresson |
-Originally a painter who took up photography in 1928. -influenced by surrealism -Bought first Leica camera in 1932 and never cropped his photos, printing full frame -"decisive moment" -Called the camera the extension of the eye. |
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Henri Cartier-Bresson |
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Henri Cartier-Bresson |
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Brassai |
-studdied painting -Up until he met Kertesz, he had an aversion to cameras until he saw a night photo of Paris that Kertesz took and was hooked. Immediately bought a camera. -He would sleep during the day and photograph at night by whatever light he could find. -Brassai was able to make people feel comfortable around him -very good writer |
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Brassai |
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Brassai |
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Bill Brandt |
-1929 worked as Man Ray's assistant in his studio. Said he learned a lot from him by going through Man Ray's things when Man Ray was out. -influenced by surrealism -impressed by Brassai's night Paris photography -His photos were very grainy/high contrast, and bold; merged social documentary w/surrealism; distortion of perspective/ variation of tonal range. -Before his death he concentrated on a highly individual approach to the nude. |
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Bill Brandt |
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August Sander |
-A professional portrait photographer -1925 Undertook an ambitious program to produce a vast atlas of German types from all classes of the social structure - boxers, landlords, circus people, varnish makers, pastry chef, reprocessor. He sought, not the individual personality, but the representative of the various professions, trades, and businesses, as well as members of social and political groups. -Called series "man of the twentieth century" |
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August Sander |
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August Sander |
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Walker Evans |
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Walker Evans |
-He liked Paul Strand's work -He became preoccupied with the American scene: he photographed architecture, the folk art of signs and billboards, and people in the streets with a sensitivity that lifted the images above the records. he is best know for later work w/ the FSA and was instrumental in forming the documentary style of the government project. -He photographed w/ an 8 x 10-inch camera and his photos were flat, direct, frontal, detailed, lacked propaganda, had a strong sense of place, and were aesthetic |
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Dorothea Lange |
-Most important photographer of the FSA - the Supreme Humanist -She was the direct opposite of Evans and wanted to take humanistic photographs; showed people in context; human aspect very important to her; just the kind of photos that Stryker wanted. Her approach to photography was based upon three considerations. First--hands off! Whatever I photograph, I do not molest or tamper with or arrange. Second--a sense of place. Whatever I photograph, I try to picture as part of its surroundings, as having roots. Third--a sense of time. Whatever I photograph, I try to show as having its position in the past or present. -She also took low angle views to show connection to people-even though they were poor, they were shown proud. |
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Dorothea Lange |
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Dorothea Lange |
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Margaret Burke White |
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Margaret Burke White |
- 1930-1936 Worked for Fortune magazine a photographer of industry. -1936-1957 Worked for Life magazine first as a photographer of industry -eventually became known for her photos of the human figure - first person to travel with Patton, covered the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps, and photographed Gandhi. |
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Arthur Fellig Weegee |
-A freelance photojournalist who sold photos to newspapers. -He was fascinated with people and the urban landscape in an all inclusive way. -He slept all day and photographed at night - murders, car wrecks, you name it, he photographed it- first person on scene- had a police radio. |
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Arthur Fellig Weegee |
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Edward Weston |
-"Straight Photography" - Weston best expresses the New Objectivity movement in the USA -began a critical reexamination of his work and in 1922 made a break from pictoralism when he took a trip East to see Stieglitz. -he most important part of his approach was his assistance that the photographer should pre-visualize the final result. Called the Zone System which was refined by Ansel Adams. -1937 Weston was awarded the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship--the first photographer to be so honored. -started the f/64 club |
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Edward Weston |
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Edward Weston |
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Margaret Bourke-white |
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Ansel Adams |
-Trained as a concert pianist, he began to photograph as an avocation under the strong influence of pictoralism -Wrote more than 35 books on photography during his life. -received international recognition -work was shown by Stieglitz at An American Place. -Conservationist, mountaineer, lover of the wilderness, he specialized in the interpretation of the natural scene, especially Yosemite National park -He would alter and change prints after photo was taken -Photos much more romantic/optimistic. -His photos about the subject while Westons were about the formal aspects of photography. - Adams perfected the Zone system created by Weston. -member of the f/64 club |
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Ansel Adams |
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Ansel Adams |
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Margaret Bourke-White |
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Imogen Cunningham |
-member of f/64 club -Compared to Weston/Adams, she approached photography from a more humanistic view vs deductive point of view. -Rejected sentimental way, was more direct.-- the Stieglitz way -While in her 90s, she published a book of photographs of people in their 90s. |
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Imogen Cunningham |
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Robert Capa |
-Most important photojournalist of the period 1930-1950s -"Photograph is not good unless you are close enough." - Covered Spanish Civil War, WW2 (Europe), Korea and Vietnam where he was killed by a land mine in 1954. |
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Robert Capa |
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Eugene Smith |
-Best example of a photojournalist. -Started working for Life magazine at the age of 18. -Covered the Pacific during WW2, where at the cost of serious injury, produced some of the finest war photographs. -Did over 50 photo essays for Life until he went on his own. |
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Eugene Smith |
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Richard Avedon |
-Most important fashion photographer. 1947-77 -First to take models outside and photograph them in street and in unusual environments. -In his work you see vitality -Eventually his style shifts to objective portraiture |
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Richard Avedon |
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Richard Avedon |
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Irving Penn |
-Worked for Vogue and Harpers Bazaar. -Really known as a portrait photographer. - Used north light w/o artificial lighting |
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Irving Penn |
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Robert Frank |
-Took up photography at the age of 18. -1947 Travels to NYC where he works for Life magazine until (1955) he developed a real contempt for them as did Eugene Smith. -Frustrated by the pressure of magazine assignments, applied successfully for a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship with the assistance of Walker Evans, and in 1955 made a photographic tour of the USA. -made "The Americans" photographic book of the 1950's -Frank gave up photography after book came out since so many folks were taking photos the way he took them. |
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Robert Frank |
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Robert Frank |
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Garry Winogrand |
-Got Guggenheim Grants in 1964 and 1969 -inspired by walker evans and traveled the US -Remove hand of photographer from photo. -Took seemingly haphazard street scenes and flash photographs of public functions demonstrate a use of the camera in which the image seems boundless, not contained w/in the rectangle of the frame but stretching beyond it. -The camera is a tool for sharpening our vision. |
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Garry Winogrand |
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Diane Arbus |
-Fashion photographer w/husband for 20 years until she took a class from Lisette Model which changed everything. -Concern for subject matter led her to photograph with alarming frankness people on the fringes of "normal" society: giants and dwarfs, transvestites, nudists. -Guggenheim Grant in 1963 and 1966. -committed suicide at age 48 |
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Diane Arbus |
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Diane Arbus |
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Minor White |
-The tradition of straight photography was carried on by him. -His photographic style was formed during his long association w/Stieglitz, Weston, and Adams. -White's goal was to make photographs that extend beyond the subject. -Complex use of metaphors and symbols. -Didn't want people to look at work and know what it was. |
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Minor White |
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David Hockney |
- Painter that used photography -led the way in the breakdown of in Modernism and started the Post-Modernism movement where photography plays a big role. -Fragments and pieces together images to give many viewpoints |
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David Hockney |
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Nan Goldin |
-Took photographs that depicted sexual dependency, dependency in relationships, etc. -autobiographical photography -1980s published book Ballad of Sexual Dependency. -"It's as if my hand was a camera." -After 1970s, all photos are in color. |
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Nan Goldin |
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Cindy Sherman |
-Photographs depict the way women are shown in the media (film). -all work is self portraits - first major series the Untitled Film Stills in which she poses as the actor in each frame. - |
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Cindy Sherman |
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Barbara Kruger |
-At 22 right out of the university with a degree in graphic design, she became a top graphic designer for fashion magazines. -Later she quit and started making her own art. -two subjects: economic power and politics of male/female as seen in relationship. - She doesn't make her own photographs but appropriates images from other sources. |
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Barbara Kruger |
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Marion Post Walcott |
-FSA photographer who covered the South. -She had a very specific point of view --photographs depicted figures isolated in a social context -- lonely child walking down a street. |
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Marion Post Walcott |
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Hannah Hoch |
-Part of the Dada movement -photomontages are complex, powerful and often menacing. -First used photocollage-took pictures out of newspaper/magazine-very political -about women's role in society. |
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Hannah Hoch |
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László Moholy-Nagy |
- highly influenced by constructivism and a strong advocate of the integration of technology and industry into the arts. |
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László Moholy-Nagy |
