Photography Exam 2

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Eadweard Muybridge

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Bridge=SF/Stanford

Western landscape

Hired by Leland Stanford to photograph horses in motion

Published Animal Locomotion and the Male and Female Figure in Motion

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Harold Edgerton

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Harold McGee to the edge of the earth

MIT Scientist

Invented strobe

High speed photographs

(milk corona and bullet meets apple)

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Duane Michals

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Decided in the 60's that he would create scenes and situations to be photographed, uses sequence images to tell story; interested in mysterious inexplicable areas of life.

Sometimes handwrites text to go with images

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Roger Fenton

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British gentleman avoiding the horror

British art photographer, commissioned to travel to the Crimea to make pics of the War. Known for "Vally of Death" Avoided the grisly horrors of war

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Alexander Gardner

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Gardner guarding the etiquette of giving credit/execution of Lincoln

Left Brady's corps and set up his own team of Civil War photographers, later photographed the excecution of Lincoln's assassins

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Robert Capa

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Bust a capa

Combat photographer, "if it's not good enough, you're not close enough" Also photographed D-Day

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W. Eugene Smith

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Michael W. Smith's music and commitment to God/others ;; change the world starting with Japan

Known for his commitment to his subjects and his skill developing photo-essays. Believed photojournalist could change the world, made pics in the Japanese village of Minamata

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Weegee

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(Arthur Fellig)

Hard hitting sensational style of photographing fires, murders. 4x5 Speed Graphic camera Practically lived in his car, took pictures of individuals reacting to crisis, had police radio in his car.

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Susan Meiselas

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American photo-journalist, worked in Nicaragua during Sandinista revolution; rejected the idea of the objective reporter in favor of a more politically driven approach. Color film. Crafted sequences to suggest story

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Julia Margaret Cameron

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British portrait photographer who also made many staged allegorical portraits/scenes. Often used soft focus, saying she stopped focusing when the image looked beautiful to her

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Henry Peach Robinson

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Photography's ability to distort the truth made it a viable art form. Used combination printing, coined the term "Pictorialism"

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Alfred Stieglitz

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Published "Camera Work" mag, supported "modern" photography and "modern" art

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Gertrude Kasebier

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NY portrait photographer whose work was shown in first issue of Camera Work

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Paul Strand

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Promoted by Stieglitz, entire last issue of Camera Work devoted to his images

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Hanna Hoch

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Dada artist who used photos in collages and photo-montages

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Imogeen Cunningham

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West coast photographer and member of f64

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Etienne Jules Marey

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Marey, the guy spy, spy watch-camera

French physiologist

Inspired by Muybridge;;motion studies that he called Chronophotoraphy

Gun camera

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Anton Giulo & Arturo Bragaglia

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Flashy latins dancing, wave of the future

Futurists who rejected Marey's images because of their static nature. Made motions studies using long exposure times.

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Marcel Duchamp

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Duchamp da Descending Dada

Prominent dada artist

"Nude Descending a Staircase" - probably inspired by photographic motion studies

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John Whipple

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Whipping eggs with this cheese

Made first photograph (dag) of moon

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Mathew Brady

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Wayne Brady fighting for rights;;civil war but took all glory

NY portrait photographer, formed corps of photographers to photograph the civil war but took credit for all photos causing people to leave group

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Timothy O'Sullivan

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Irish and blacks together during civil war

Worked for Mathew Brady, and later Alexander Gardner during civil war

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John Thomson

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Mr. Thomson, the brit, walking the streets of China (Hong Kong)

British photographer who made documentary pics in China, later in London (Street Life of London)

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The Farm Security Administration

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Run by Roy Stryker who hired photographer to make pics of the rural poor during the Great Depression. Intent to educate gen. pop. and show how gov't was helping

Included: Dorothea Lange, Arthur Rothstein, Walker Evans, Mario Post Walcott, Russell Lee, Ben Shahn

Loud robotic eels wrap lazy sandwiches

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Erich Salamon

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Used Leica to make pics of German politicians, often from outside the building/room

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Roman Vishnaic

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Eastern European name = Poland

Photographed inside Jewish Ghettos in Poland during Nazi era

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Magnum

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On our terms and with force

Co-op formed by a group of photographers (Capa and Bresson included) with the goals of allowing member photographers to work free of editorial demands and to regain control over the use of their images

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Margaret Bourke White

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White pioneers, first for Life and for whites, all for Germany

Picture used for the cover of first LIFE magazine, well known photojournalist, who also photographed Germany after WWII

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LIFE Mag

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Born out of roaring 20s is real life

first published in the 1930's; featured photo-essays by noted photographers. Very popular until replaced by TV as a primary source of news

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Henri Cartier Bresson

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Spirited Frenchman, that special, decisive moment

worked as photo-journalist, first used "the decisive moment' to refer to his goal of releasing the shutter at the climactic moment where form and content are equally powerful

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Don McCullin

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Don McLean - Hanoi Jane

Brit pj, known for pics of devastating famine in Biafra and the Vietnam War. "First media war"

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Frances Benjamin Johnston

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France + Benjamin + Johnston

Made pics of the Hampton Institute, school for african american youth

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Edward Curtis

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Photographed Native Americans; documenting what he thought was a vanishing race

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Jacob Riis

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Riieeely likes slums

Took pics of slums and tenements on lower east side of NYC hoping to promote better living conditions

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Lewis Hine

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Had Hine-sight to see that children need education

Sociologist by training, driven by desire to change the "ills" he saw in the world. Pics of child laborers used to change child labor laws. Also took pics of building of Empire state building

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The Family of the Man

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Adam and Eve, the world over

Exhibition at MOMA in NYC curated by Edward Steichen

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John Heartfield

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Helmut Herzfeld

German designer who made political photo-montage covers for socialist magazine AIZ

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Barbara Kruger

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Kruger's having a sale, it's a deal on feminism

American designer turned artist who uses the forms of advertising to make political statements, often feminist nature

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Carrie Mae Weems

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Mama Mae

African American photographer made "joke" pieces

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Kristoff Wodiczko

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World Wodiczko, bigger than life projections

Projects images onto buildings, often political

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Jabez Hughs

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Howard Hughes
3 Catagories of Photography: Mechanical (simple representation of objects), Art (artists fuses his/her mind into things, artsy), High Art (aim for higher purpose; instruct, purify, enoble)

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Oscar Rejlander

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Art photographer that made combo prints "Two Ways of Life" combining 20 separate negatives (moral, non moral panoramic pic)

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Those tricky Vikings

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Pictorialists

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Art photographers who in the early 1900's often made soft focus pics in order to create a painterly effect(Gum bichromate)

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Peter Henry Emerson

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argued that selective focus (setting lens slightly out of focus)was the road to "naturalistic photography"

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To emerge from the city into nature

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Edward Steichen

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Made pictorialist views with Gum Bichromate process

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Robert Demachy

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French pictorialist; enthusiast of gum bichromate

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Fancy French

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F. Holland Day

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Pictorialist who photographed himself as Christ in Crucifixion series

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Christmas Holiday

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Frederick Evans

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Photographed English cathedrals (would sometimes stay overnight to get the pics of the early morning in the cathedrals as well)

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Evangelicals

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The Linked Ring

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Group of photographers seeking to escape the power held by the established photo societies

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The Photo Secession

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Breakaway group of photographers founded by Steiglitz

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Alvin Langdon Coburn

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Pictorialist turned "modernist"; made 'Vortographs'

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Film & Photo

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Name of international exhibition, took place in germany; played major part in post WWI reconstruction efforts. Machines caused devastation of war but could also rebuild it.

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Bahaus

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Art school in Dessau, Germany founded by Walter Gropius. Promoted interdisciplinary thinking and working methods

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Dada

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Driven by disenchantment w/ mainstream societal values and a desire to overthrow established approaches to art. Experimented with non-traditional materials and techniques and revealed in nonsense and the absurd

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Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

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Saw photography as a pivotal medium. First to use the term "New Vision". Instructor at the Bauhaus. Fascinated by possibilities of photograms

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Alexander Rodchenko

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Russian photographer who made use of extreme angles and photo-montage

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Man Ray

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American who moved to Paris in the 30's. Invented "Rayogram" now called "photogram" Upset when he found out he was not the first to invent or discover this.

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Edward Weston

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Travelled to NY, switched to pictorialism (Soft focus) to straight photography. From that point on all his pics were sharp focus, glossy paper bc they didn't allow retouching

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Harry Callahan

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Taught at Institute of Design in Chicago. Explored many subjects. Committed to an approach based on principles of seeing.

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Eadward Muybridge

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Eadward Muybridge

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Harold Edgerton

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Duane Michals

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Roger Fenton

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Roger Fenton

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Roger Fenton

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Alexander Gardner

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Alexander Gardner

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Dorothea Lange

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Dorothea Lange

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Robert Capa

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Robert Capa

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W. Eugene Smith

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Weegee

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Susan Meiselas

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Julia Margaret Cameron

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Julia Margaret Cameron

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Gertrude Kasebier

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Gertrude Kasebier

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Alfred Stieglitz

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Alfred Stieglitz

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Paul Strand

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Paul Strand

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Hanna Hoch

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Hanna Hoch

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Imogeen Cunningham

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Imogeen Cunningham

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Henry Peach Robinson