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36 Cards in this Set
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WEGEE
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Poland
street photographer/ freelance photographed nyc at night had a connection with nyc police and was always the first one there |
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Paul STRAND
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student of Louis HINE
experimented with enlargements and developments photo'd ny, traffic in ny from above abstract chair 1916; appreciated by important american photographers |
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Lisetten MODEL
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Austrian
privately tutored at home studied painting and music photoed happy people (fat lady at coney island) |
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Henri CARTIER-BRESSON
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studied painting and literature
black frame - didn't crop his photos at at all photos of people/children on streets in Europe |
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Robert POISNEAU
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people in the city
can tell a story (captures everyone in one photo) |
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Eugene SMITH
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american
news photographer when 15 combat air missions, covered 30 invasions worked for "LIFE' |
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Robert FRANK
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b. 1924 in switzerland/photoed in London
1958 photographic book "The Americans" fresh & skeptic outsider view of American society expanded into film, video, & experimented with compositing and manipulating photographs |
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Edward J Steicher
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American portrait photographer
war documentaries most frequently featured photographer in Steiglitz's magazine "camera work" |
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Alfred STEIGLITZ
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American portrait photographer
photoed ships, snowy 5th avenure, and his wife Georgia O'keefe, nyc, venice canals Entrepreneur, father bought him studio, high standards = didn't profit |
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Nar GOLDIN
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b. 1953
American documentarist colored nyc photos, presented slideshows made herion use appear glamorous nudes "normal photo" in 80's & 90s |
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Martin PARR
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b 1952 England
documentary photo's show critical of society & consumerism, foreigh travel & tourism, motoring, family &relationships, & food started b+w, switched to color |
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Mary Ellen Mark
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b 1940
American photographer, documentary, portraiture, advertising photographer on movie sets |
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Elliott ERWITT
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b 1928 in france, emigrated to US
advertising & documentary photos known b+w candid shots of ironic and absurd situations w/ everyday setting film making carrer, photoed people at beach/ loneliness |
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Ceail BEATON
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1904-1980
English, high society photos of _____, Dali, other writiers, models w/ dresses |
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Philippe HALSMAN
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1906-1979 - typical of period
born in Eastern Europe, but a US photographer celebrated portraits had 101 covers LIFE magaz (of Einstein, Hitchcock) Plenty of humor & playful tels a story; jumping portraits |
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Diane ARBUS
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1923-1971
twins, midgets, asylum inmates, people in streets, etc. can you make fun or yourself?? (last photo of 2 girls) |
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Richard AVEDON
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portrait/ fashion photographer
American Simple people (nurse, father-daughter) |
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Andy WARHOL
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1928-1987
portraits, from slavakyia but born in pitt uses photographs for art |
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Arnold NEWMAN
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quick portraits
wanted to be a painter documentary and abstract art/ informal |
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Cindy SHERMAN
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b. 1954
doesn't consider heself feminist, but photos against usual stereotypes of women in TV, etc conceptual self-portraits |
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Annie LIEBOUITZ
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b. 1949
moved around as child, military brat worked for rolling stone |
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EJ BELLOCQ
nudes |
one of first to do nudes
new orleans at first, models were prostitutes and faced were covered negatives were defaced, people dislike him & his photos in this era |
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Frantisek DRTIKOL
nudes |
czech/ darkroom
nudes & famous peoples desperately wanted to be a painter, father had connections to studio so became photographer naked girls with hats |
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Martin MUNKACSI
nudes |
1896-1963
hungarian photographer, worked in Germany and US sports action photography, berlins rich and poor pick unexpected angles (on back, ladder) |
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MANRAY
nudes |
1890-1976
American painter portraits of Hemingway, Stein, etc member of dada movement, surrealist movement photograms in Paris in 1920's 30's photography isn't art, new phenomenon in creating images anyone can do. |
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Hans BELLMER
nudes |
puppets & toys dressed as if human and joined together
later work is too risque (photos of more than chests of women - lifting their skirts up |
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LASZLO MOHOLY- NAGY
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1895-1946
hungarian created organizations for modern art before nazis came, then moved to US "how do i stay so young and beautiful?" - title of one of photos all photograms from 20's, early for development of modern art |
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Alexander RODCHENKO
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1891- 1956
lived in Soviet Union, never had any freedom but still belonged to modern soviet artists photo montages positive sentiment b+w him and his subjects ("mother") used all the principles of modern photographs, political photos |
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Jaromis FUNKE
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1896-1945
close up of plates, nude plenty of photograms required photo to be made w/ camera, negative, etc. but wanted to create photographs that looked like photograms, so used light & plates of glass - abstract photos |
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Jaroslav ROSSLER
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apprentice to DRTIKOL, always wanted to be a photographer
photo's from 20's as if he already understood about modern photography many photos w/ candles, cigarette |
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Josef ISTLER
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painter
messed w/ liquids in dark room on photo paper |
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Jindrich HEISLER
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poet during wartime which couldn't be published
artificial photos made w/ chemicals |
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Miroslave HAK
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mostly worked for art hisotrians - tons of photos of prague
still worked w/ chemicals in 30's |
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Jindrich STYRSKY
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painter who became a photographer
coffins, cemetaries in prague, graffiti weird sex |
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Emila MEDKOVA
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wife to Czech painter - modern artist so not much liked during communist regime
photograms, photo's an artificial eye often |
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JOSEF SUDEK
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Czech, 1896-1976
ex book binder before photographer when lost arms as a veteran good friend of FUNKE uses diagonals and shadows strongly in his photographs photographed windows, always something b+w him and the world used huge negatives (30-40 cm) photos of egg and class (cubism?) famous photo's of apples some rare nudes, glass eyes, mannequins. |
