Photo History Exam #2

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Pictorialism

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Photos that look like "art" (paintings and drawings)

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P.H. Emerson

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Made platinum prints (low contrast/brownish tones

"Life and Landscape on Norfolk Broads"

Do not cut/paste/manipulate
Take pics how human eye would see- Differential focus

Writes "Naturalistic Photography" 1889
"The Death of Naturalistic Photo" 1891

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George Davison

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Everything out of focus.
"Onion Field"- impressionistic photo

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Robert Demachy

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(French) Gum Printing, very manipulated, Ballerinas

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Frederick Evans

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(English) Platinum Printer. Photo-ed english cathedrals ( famous for interiors)

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Photo Secession

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brings fine art photographers away from pictorialism and into straight photography

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Alfred Stieglitz

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opens gallery at 291 5th Ave. NYC to commemorate secession

1887 "A Good Joke" Silver Gelatin Print

1892 "Winter on 5th Ave" Silver Print

1907 "The Steerage" Photo Gravure

Hangs show called Photo Secession

Equivalents- Series of things eqivalent to

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Camera Work

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Publication of Photo Secession (1903-1907)
Photo Gravieres

1st issue goes to Gertrude Kasebier-Plat Printer/kinda Pictor.

2nd Issue- Edward Steichen, "The Pond Moonlight" Gumprint {most exp. photo}

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Clarence White

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One of Founding Members of Photo Secession.

Plat. Printer

"The Ring Toss" Gum Print

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Armory Show

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1913 in US

BIG International exhibition in NY

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Paul Strand

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A founding member of Photo Secession

"Back of the Church" 1931 New Mexico

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The Family of Man

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Curated by Edward Steichen

exhibit at NYMOMA w/ 503 photos

broke all attendance records

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Color Photography

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1st color photo by Rev. Levi Hill hilotype

Maxwell of London takes pic of vase thru 3 diff filters

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Autochrome

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1st practical color photography
Lumiere Bros. 1904 avail 1907

+ not - process

color starch granules between glass

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Kodachrome

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1937

small rolled up 35mm film
can be blown up
layers of color emulsions

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Cubism

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Picasso "Young Girls of Avignon"

Analytic, Synthetic

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Futurism

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based on movement

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Dada

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reaction to the insanity of war
stepping outside of reason/rationality

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Surrealist Manifesto

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Andre Breton

Influenced by freud theories
Granted mysterious power to women

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Constructivism

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Alexander Rodchenko

cold/hard edged/ about machines/Bauhaus

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A.L.Coburn

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"The Octopus" Gelatin Silver Print
vortographs- kaleidoscope type

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Christian Schad

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one of the 1st to make photograms a fine art

called them Schadographs

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Man Ray

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Explored photograms (rayographs)

Solarization- black lines between->flash white light during film developing

Sabattier Effect- white lines between tones-> flash white light on paper during dev process

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Lee Miller

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Only female photojournalist during WWII

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Lazlo Moholy-Nagy

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constructivist

integrated art and science

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Leica Camera

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Prototype made by Oscar Barnett 1913

standardized roll up film for still photos

1924 could go to photo store and buy leica

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Brassai

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Will be famous for night photos
book "Paris by Night"
1976 all pix published in 'the Secret Life of Paris"

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Bresson

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coined term "the decisive moment"

carried leica everywhere

"Behind the St. Lazeraie Train Station" ( man leaping over water with reflection)

forms Magnum- group for photojournlists

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farm security administration

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Historical section-govt wanted to record what was happening

works progress administration- to help artists

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Roy Stryker

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in charge of managing photographers in historical section of FSA

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Arthur Rothstein

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Dust storm in Simeron county

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Marion Post Wolcott

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"young boys waiting"

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Dorthea Lange

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"Migrant Mother" 1936

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Walker Evans

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most famous fsa photographer
did series of subway portraits
book called "Many are called"

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Eric Salomon

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used Ermanox ( dim lighting)
father of photojournalism
took pix of world leaders in between wars

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Margaret Bourke-White

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1st to photo in aerial combat
photographed 1st cover of life magazine
"the american way"

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Arthur Fellig (weegee)

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took pix at crime scenes
used infaredfilm/red flash for night pix

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W. Eugene Smith

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Most famous photojournalist
"A walk to paradise gardens"
"Spanish Village" essays in Life
"Tomoku in her bath"

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Robert Capa

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pix of Marines landing on beach @D-day (only 11 negs)

wars like Spanish Civil war

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Gerda Taro

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1t woman to cover war from front lines

robert capa partner

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Donna Ferrato

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book called "Living with the enemy" on domestic violence

also "Love and Lust"

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James Nachtwey

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showed video of iraq slingshots

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Susan Meiselas

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Book called "El Salvador"
photos of guerillas vs. govt

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Sebastaio Salgado

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originally economist
photo many 3rd world countries
miners/workers/laborers

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Mary Ellen Mark

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pix on mental hospitals/blind schools etc.
runaways in seattle
indian family circus