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38 Cards in this Set
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Artist: Danny Lyon Title: Girl Lying on a Bed Date: 1947 |
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Artist: William Eggleston Title: Untitled (Tricycle/Memphis) Date: 1970 |
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What is the importance of William Eggleston? |
Set the tone to accept color photography as an art using banal subject matter. |
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Artist: Lucas Samaras Title: Untitled Date: 1973 |
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Artist: Mary Ellen Mark Title: Tiny on Pike Street Seattle, Washington Year 1983 |
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Artist: Sebastiao Salgado Title: Greater Burhan Oil Field, Kuwait Date: 1991 |
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Artist: Nan Goldin Title: The Hug Date: 1980 |
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Artist: Nan Goldin Title: Nan One Month after Being Battered Date: 1984 |
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Artist: Gray Schnieder Title: Genetic Self Portrait: Tumor Supressor Gene Date: 1997 |
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Artist: Catherine Chalmers Title: Caterpillars Eating a Tomato, from Food Chain Date: 1994-96 |
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Artist: Nancy Burson Title: Warhead I (Reagan 55%, Breshnev 45%, Thatcher <1%, Mitterand<1%, and Deng<1%) Date: 1982 Computer Compilation |
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Artist: Aziz and Cucher Title: Man with a Computer, from Faith, Honor, and Beauty Date: 1992 |
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Artist: Joan Foncuberta Title: The Miracle of Dolphin Surfing Date: 2002 Photoshop |
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Artist: Yasmasa Morimura Title: Self-portrait (Actress), Red Marilyn Date: 1996 |
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Artist: Jeff Wall Title: A Sudden Gust of Wind (After Hokusai) Date: 1993 Photoshop |
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Artist: Richard Prince (Thief) Title: Untitled (Cowboy) Date: 1989 |
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Artist: Uta Berth Title: Ground #42 Date: 1994 Breaks focus rule: Moore about the mood. |
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Artist: Judy Dater Title: Self-portrait at Crater of the Moon Date: 1981 |
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Artist: Edward Burtynsky Title: Nickel Tailings No. 34 Date: 1996 |
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Artist: Catherine Opie Title: Chicken Date: 1991 |
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Artist: Carrie May Weems Title: From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried Date: 1991 Appropriation |
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What is the significance of Walter Benjamin? |
Wrote essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936). Questioned the notion of authorship and originality in a photograph. Discussed the Aura (unique feeling) in the presence of the original. |
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Author: Walter Benjamin Questioned the notion of authorship and originality in a photograph. It also discussed the Aura (unique feeling) in the presence of the original. |
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What is the significance of Susan Sontag? |
Wrote a series of essays published in the book On Photography (1977). Discussed how photography has effected our culture. |
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What is the significance of Roland Barths? |
Wrote Camera Lucida (1980). He focused on howphotographs mean rather than what they mean. “The Photographic Message” –connotation and denotation. |
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What did Roland Barth mean when he discussed the "connotation and denotation" of a Photograph?" |
Connotation refers to the implied meaning or set of meanings of a photograph. Denotation refers to the explicit meaning or set of meanings of a photograph. |
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What terms did Roland Barth use when he discussed the impact of a photograph on the viewer? |
Studium: Photographic content that interested the intellect. Punctum: Designated to photographiccontent that has a sudden arrestingaffect on the viewer. SHOCK VALUE! |
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What is the significance of Szarkowski? Curated "The Photographer's Eye" in 1964 &"Mirrors and Windows" in 1978. |
1962: chosen by Edward Steichen to manage MOMA's photography collection. Established a new way of looking at, talking about and critiquing photographs. began establishing photography as an independent medium - with its own history & methods. |
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The 1964 exhibit "The Photographers Eye" identified five characteristics of photography. What are they? |
1. The Thing Itself 2. The Detail 3. The Frame 4. Time 5. Vantage Point |
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What did Szarkowski mean when he referenced "The Thing Itself?" |
“The Thing Itself”declared that the photograph was a picture and not the equivalent of reality. |
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What did Szarkowski mean when he referenced "The Detail?" |
“The Detail” refersto photography’s compelling “clarity” and also to the fact that it can “isolatea fragment” of reality.
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What did Szarkowski mean when he referenced "The Frame?" |
“The Frame” refers to the simple act of choosingand eliminating objects within the frame. |
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What did Szarkowski mean when he referenced "Time?" |
“Time” refers to fact that all photographs arethe compression of a given amount of time. Time is always the present, so photographs cannot directly represent the pastor the future, but merely allude to it. |
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What did Szarkowski mean when he referenced "Vantage Point?" |
“Vantage Point”allows photographers to present the subject from unexpected points of view. |
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In the 1978 exhibit "Mirrors and Windows Szarkowski divided photography into two categories. What were they? |
1. Mirrors 2. windows |
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What did Szarkowski mean when he described categorized a photo as a "mirror?" |
The“Mirrors” section of the exhibit aimed it’s focus at introspectivephotographers that use photography in a conceptual manner in order to reflecttheir thoughts and emotions. |
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What did Szarkowski mean when he described categorized a photo as a "window?" |
The “Windows” focusedon photography that gave us a glimpse of the world as it appeared. |
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How did the Mirrors and Windows (1978) exhibit differ from "The Photographers Eye" (1964) exhibit? |
In addition to images with the five characteristics described in the 1964 exhibit, the new exhibit included images that brought new technologies andprocesses to the language of photography. (Digitally processed images & hand manipulated Polaroids). It addressed the growing significance of appropriated mass media images. |
