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66 Cards in this Set
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Alfred Stieglitz
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studied in europe, started with pictorialism, studio 291, married georgia o'keeffe, camera work magazine
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Clarence H. White
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ohio-to new york, one of 1st photo teachers as an art, in stieglitz's pictorial society
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Gertrude Kasebier
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pictorialist, photos of mother/childhood, bad marriage, commercial portrait photographer when husband was sick
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Edward Steichen
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milwaukee lithographic firm, pictorialist, aerial photography in WWI fashion photographer in europe, modern museum of art "the family of man"
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Frederick Holland Day
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wealthy, reenacts crucifixion, gay, didn't leave house for final 11 years
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Alvin Langdon Coburn
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-F. Holland Day's cousin
-worked with stieglitz -portraits of important men -fuzzy like pictorialism, but strong geometry -vortograph-1st completely abstract photos -stops photographing-joins cult-like group |
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Kahlil Gibran
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F. Holland Day's protege, was encouraged by him in his creative endeavors
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Pablo Picasso
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-modern art
-art was shown in Stieglitz's studio, 291 |
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Paul Strand
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-not like pictorialism,very clear
-worked w/ stieglitz -abstract photos -sent to texas to get o'keefe for stieglitz, strand fell for her too, enlisted in army -cinematographer -socialist |
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Georgia O'Keefe
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-artist
-marries Stieglitz -photographed by Stieglitz |
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Karl Struss
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-factory, photography was hobby
-learned from clarence white -German-American, in WWI, friends reported some pro-german remarks-jail then guard for military prisoners -went to L.A- stills photographer then cinematographer -academy award |
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Lewis Hine
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-from WI
-fought against child labor in US -taught photography in a high school -photographed workers -poor -used flash |
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Eugene Atget
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-orphaned
-street photography of Paris -very poor, freelance photographer -left behind lots of prints/negatives when he died, many bought by berenice abbott |
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August Sander
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-"People of the 20th Century"- 7 categories (the farmer, the skilled tradesmen, the woman, classes and professions, the artists, the city, the last people) in Germany
-his other book confiscated by Nazis |
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Edward Weston
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-left family to go to mexico with tina modotti
-pictures of sink/toilet, and shells- very sensual -precisionist style |
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Tina Modotti
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-in mexico with Weston
-photographs had political messages- communist -Vittorio Vidali- partner -died mysteriously in Mexico in back of taxi |
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Vittorio Vidali
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-partner of Tina Modotti
-professional assassin for Stalin -involved in Modotti's death? |
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Anton Giulio Bragaglia
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-1st futuristic photographer
-assisted by his brother -held shutter open, 'smear' image across photo -rejected from futuristic movement, photography rejected as an art |
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Alexander Rodchenko
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-wife stepanova
-rejected painting, used engineering tools -graphic design, used photos in them -new points of view- bird's eye and worm's eye -eventually fell out of favor w/ Stalin- only allowed to photograph parades and sporting events |
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Dziga Vertov
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-filmmaker
-rejected normal way of making films- thought it should be footage of real people and real situations |
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Mikhail Kaufman
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-Dziga Vertov's brother and cameraman
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Raoul Hausman
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Dada
-used photomontage, applied to three-dimensional sculpture -photographs often had appearance of discontinuous, overlapping layers |
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Hannah Hoch
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-friend of Raoul Hausman
-more disciplined, less cluttered collage style- european high fashion mixed with African/ancient artifacts |
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John Heartfield
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Dada
-used photomontage as a weapon against political rivals (he was a communist) -mocked Hitler and communist party |
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Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
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-taught at Bauhaus
-photos very geometric, straight lines -founded New Bauhaus in Chicago- still exists as the Institute of Design |
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Herbert Bayer
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a teacher at the Bauhaus
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Francis Picabia
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Dada
-Came to New York from France -worked with Stieglitz, made cover for 291 magazine |
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Marcel Duchamp
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Dada
-came to new york with Picabia -"Nude descending a staircase #2" painting -Used name R. Mutt to submit urinal as art- rejected |
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Man Ray
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-friends w/ Duchamp, went to Europe with him, take pictures for Dada
-surrealist group -knew Atget, bought some photos from him -assistant was Berenice Abbott, bill brandt, and lee miller |
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Berenice Abbott
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-influenced by Atget in paris, bought as many of his photographs as she could
-back to New York, portraits then did straight photography of New York like Atget |
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Jean Cocteau
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filmmaker- "Blood of a Poet" with Lee Miller
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Kiki de Montparnasse
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In Man Ray's movie Emak-Bakia, eyes painted on her eyelids
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Bill Brandt
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-briefly Man Ray's assistant
-photographs stayed surreal throughout career- dark, foggy, dreamlike -mysterious -printed very dark and heavy -magaizine work with Stefan Lorant |
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Lee Miller
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-fashion model
-assistant to Man Ray, started and ended relationship with him -discovered solarization technique -in jean cocteau's film "Blood of a Poet" -style started like Man Ray, but became more journalistic with surrealist eye |
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Stefan Lorant
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-started as a still photographer on a movie set
-Hungarian magazine editor that Bill Brandt worked with -after criticizing nazis, was imprisoned by Hitler for nearly a year |
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Martin Munkacsi
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Hungarian
-sports journalism -fashion photography for Harper's Bazaar -high paid magazine photographer |
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Andre Kertesz
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Hungarian
-drafted into army- photos from soldier's point of view -photojournalist-humorous and ironic style -to New York, contract with Keystone, problems with employer-became freelancer -unknown in US |
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Brassai
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Hungarian
-painter, influenced by Kertesz to do photography -magazine photographer but most known for book- Paris at Night |
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Henri Cartier-Bresson
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-influenced by one picture- Martin Munkacsi's "Black Boys on the Shore of Lake Tanganyika"
-fixed geometry in picture and waits for subject to enter frame to make photo -Magnum picture agency |
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Walker Evans
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-like Atget without romanticism
-Farm Security Administration (F.S.A) during depression to document gov't farm relief programs -skeptical attitude |
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Ben Shahn
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-F.S.A.- learned photography from Walker Evans
-made paintings from his photos -camera's viewfinder pointed sideways-ppl not really sure what's going on |
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Gordon Parks
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-F.S.A
-first black photographer published in LIFE, Vogue (France) -first black director for Hollywood film |
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Dorothea Lange
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-San Francisco, portraits until depression
-polio, had limp, barely graduated high school -F.S.A -famous photo "Migrant Mother" -children in foster homes so she could do her work |
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Henry Luce
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-behind Time, Life, and Fortune magazines
-film and radio news programs -believed in free market |
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Margaret Bourke-White
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-when photographing people, didn't get close physically or emotionally
-good at directing people -Life magazine -in soviet union when german bombs fell-accused of being un-american -travelled, was often in danger, liked photographing from heights |
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W. Eugene Smith
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-Life magazine photographer, often fought with management
-too close, emotionally, to people he photographed -WWII photographs |
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Robert Capa
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-born andre friedman
-press photography in Germany then freelance in France, he and girlfriend changed their names (Gerda Taro) to help careers -Spanish Civil War, WWII, and others -killed by landmine in Vietnam |
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Gerda Taro
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-born Gerta Pohorylle
-Robert Capa's girlfriend, did war photography with him -killed during Spanish Civil War when car she was standing on collided with tank |
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Ansel Adams
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-first wanted to be a pianist
-reaction against commercialism and popular photography -like timothy o'sullivan's photography -mentor- Edward Weston -nature photography at yosemite |
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Minor White
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-was in war
-abstract photos, soldier portraits, poetry -search for deeper meaning -made students practice Zen meditation to become better photographers |
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Harry Callahan
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-experimental approach to photography
-detroit -friends with aaron siskind -students loved him, taught mostly by example -photos of his wife and child |
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Beaumont Newhall
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-first curator of photography at museum of modern art
-first exhibition of history of photography -resigned when Stiechen appointed director of photography department |
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Irving Penn
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-magazine photography
-American south- interesting poses for portraits -Vogue |
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Alexy Brodovitch
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-Irving Penn's teacher and mentor
-graphic designer, art director -Fled Russia, went to Paris |
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Robert Frank
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-From Switzerland, moved to U.S.
-had photos in 'the family of man' -book "the americans"- pessimistic, hated by many when first out |
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William Klein
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-G.I bill to study art in France
- book "life is good and good for you in New York: Trance witness revival" - like paparazzi, right in peoples' faces- couldn't find an american publisher -travel books |
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Garry Winogrand
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-street photography, horizon often tilted, weird subjects
-left tons of film at death -after death- photo show, book |
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Lisette Model
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-learned from her sister
-photos of people are fearless, heartless? "One Photographer's Explanation of Why France Fell" -good teacher of photography |
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Diane Arbus
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-married husband right at 18
-worked together on commercial photography -relationship with people in photos -"freaks", nudists -committed suicide, famous after death |
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John Szarkowski
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-took Stiechen's position of director of photography at MoMA
-"The Photographer's Eye" and "Photography Until Now" |
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Sherrie Levine
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used a copy Walker Evan's photograph as her own.
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Sebastiao Salgado
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-own photo journalism assignments all around the world- "major essays"
-gold mines -popular, also critiqued that photos of tragedy should not be beautiful or sold as art for lots of money |
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Sally Mann
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-"immediate family" pictures of her children, many nude. criticized- exploiting her children?
-"At Twelve"- of poor children -went back to wet plate collodion |
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Joel-Peter Witkin
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-very strange photographs
-pictures at morgue in Mexico -old master paintings are his inspiration |
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Yasumasa Morimura
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-close copies of old/famous paintings and photographs
-inserts himself as main figure (as women) |
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Daniel Lee
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-digitally distorted portraits derived from photos
-satirical paintings that have photographic surfaces |
