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Douglas Huebler Variable Piece no. 70 1971 Significance: - Hueber proposed this project with the intention to photographically document the existence of everyone alive, being the most ambitious series of his career. - This series is a testament to the basis of conceptual art, focusing more on the record keeping concept of the work rather than the finished product, this is shown through the fact that photographing every person in the world would be impossible to accomplish in a lifetime, therefore this work would perpetually be unfinished. |
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Bernd Becher & Hilla Becher Blast Furnaces 1970 Significance: - These images were included in the 1975 show “New Topographies,” focusing on the photograph’s ability to archive the appearance of dead-tech objects. - The rich grey tonalities of their work, along with the public nostalgia aroused by the disappearance of mechanical technologies, prompted audiences to respond with a sentimentality that was alien to Conceptual philosophy. |
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Robert Smithson Monuments of Passaic, New Jersey 1967 Significance: - Smithson was celebrated for his earthworks, well known for his iconic land art titled ‘Spiral Jetty.’ - This was one of his earlier works, in which he photographed various industrial relics he found in the region and re-imagined them as monuments from another time. - Although a lesser known work, it remains a thought provoking experiment that shed’s light on Smithson’s later preoccupations with time and entropy. |
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Victor Burgin
Photopath 1969 Significance: - Burgin photographed sections of a gallery floor, then printed images the exact size and tonality of the wood and stapled them to the boards, creating a system in which images are perfectly congruent with the objects. - This photograph alludes to the relationship between photography and reality. |
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Jeff Wall Picture for Women Significance: - This is a constructed image, modeled in such a way to make visual reference between a scene of contemporary life and pictorial art, specifically referencing Edouard Manet’s painting ‘TheBar.’ - Manet’s painting brings up issues of the male gaze, particularly the power relationship between male artist and female model,and viewers role as onlooker. Wall updates the theme by positioning the camera at the centre of the work, so that it captures the making of the image. |
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Horst P. Horst
The Mainbocher Corset 1939 Significance: - This photograph has been deemed Horst’s most cited fashion photograph. - Horst was known for his carefully lit fashion photography, he referenced the slim, overlapping planes of Cubism, as well as the negative-positive look of photograms to create dynamic lighting scenarios. |
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David Bailey
Jean Shrimpton for Vogue Paris 1962 Significance: - Bailey’s rise at Vogue magazine was partly due to his insistence on bringing fresh faces to the fashion world, such as Jean Shrimpton. |
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Bruce Weber
Calvin Klein Ad Late 1980s Significance: - Weber came into the attention of the general public when he began shooting for Calvin Klein, his straight-forward black and white shots and sexualized imagery quickly became Calvin Klein’s iconic trademark. - The photography of Calvin Klein advertisements was monumental to the fashion photography world, showcasing that sex really does sell a product and a lifestyle. |
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Corinne Day
Kate's Flat 1998 Significance: - Day frequently set her fashion shoots in actual lofts and apartments, where dirty coffee cups, old newspapers, littered rugs, and grungy furniture created an ambience far from the glamorous, clean settings of high-fashion photography. - Late 20th century cutting-edge fashion photography favored a gritty realism, connoting to anti-fashion industry; showing a model like Kate Moss in a domestic setting without her hair and makeup done brings her down to an tangible, everyday level. |
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Jo Spence & Terry Dennett
1982 Significance: - An image from Spence’s body of work titled “A Picture of Health?” in which Jo Spence responds to her disease and treatment through photography, channeling her feelings about breast cancer and orthodox medicine into an exhibition. - The ‘x’ marked on her breast is a signifier of her patient/doctor relationship, drawing attention to the bluntness that something that is visually to small as an ‘x’ drawn on by her doctor can represent something so monumental for herself. |
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Barbara Kruger
Your body is a battleground 1989 Significance: - Kruger was an American graphic designer who selected photographically derived mass-media images for use in a series of confrontational poster-like pictures based on Postmodern assumptions about women in society. - She inserted bold, blocky type derived from advertising into her composition, both as design elements and for their meaning. |
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Cindy Sherman
Untitled Film Stills # 14 1978 Significance: - Sherman costumed herself to look like troubled and anxious women from B-movies of the1950s in her photographic series titled “Untitled Film Stills.” - Her series brings light to stereotypes surrounding female roles in society |
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Valie Export
Tapp und Tastkino (Touch Cinema) 1968 Significance: - A performance piece in which the public was invited to touch her breasts inside a curtained box attached to the artist’s upper torso. - The work is a witty and confrontational comment on the objectification of women’s bodies. |
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Laurie Anderson
Fully Automated Nikon 1973 Significance: - This image is part of a series in which Anderson decided to shoot pictures of men who made “cat call” comments to her on the street. - The title of her series “Fully Automated Nikon” makes reference to how her camera plays the role of a gun, allowing her to feel armed and protected in a time of vulnerability. |
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David Wojnarowicz
Untitled from Sex Series 1988-89 Significance: - This series addresses the personal and political dimensions of the AIDS crisis, he took stock images of New York and incorporated clippings of gay pornography into round frames within the image. - The combination and composition of images invite us to imagine that these smaller scenes are being carried out undercover within the larger ones. |
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Nan Goldin
Nan & Brian in Bed 1983 Significance: - From 'The Ballad of Sexual Dependency,' a show consisting of about 700-800 slides detailing the intimate lives of Goldin and her friends, revealing the domestic routines of couples. - This series reveals Goldin’s personal odyssey as a well as a more universal understanding of the different languages men and women speak, and the struggle between autonomy and dependency. |
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Sally Mann
Hayhook 1989 Significance: - From Mann’s series “Immediate Family,” showcasing images of her three children, her husband, and herself, posing in various scenarios within the home. - This series is subject to an ongoing debate about the photographers right to show children in poses that reveal genitalia, or suggest that children possess adult sexual knowledge. |
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Robert Mapplethorpe
Jesse McBride 1976 Significance: - This image was to be included in an exhibit of photographs in Washington DC, however it was canceled due to public outrage concerning sexual hostility surrounding the showcasing of children’s genitalia. - Images such as this are subject to an ongoing debate about the photographers right to show children in poses that reveal genitalia, or suggest that children possess adult sexual knowledge. |
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Robert Mapplethorpe
Calla Lily 1987 Significance: - Mapplethorpe has an invested interest in the naked body, he investigates perfection in form through portraiture, images of genitalia, and in this case he uses a flower asa sexual icon. - This image takes an object used as a cipher of femininity and redeploys it as a male organ. |
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Sebastiao Salgado
Serra Pelada, Brazil 1986 Significance: - From his best-known series ‘An Uncertain Grace,’ which records the toil of labourers excavating pits in northern Brazil in order to extract gold deposits. - Salgado’s style refers back to the Depression era, when press and advocacy photography presented imagery of human suffering. |
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Boris Mikhailov
Case History 1998 Significance: - Mikhailov created case studies of homeless people in the Ukraine, where he sarcastically criticized the beginnings of capitalism and its effects by paying homeless people to pose for him in postures he chose. - The pictures are controversial because the camera angle is positioned at belly level, emphasizing degradation. |
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Alfredo Jaar
The Eyes of Gutete Emerita 1996 Significance: - Presented in a light box, paired in a cycle of 4 images with text telling the story of one woman’s suffering in the Rwandan genocide of 1994. - Jaar focuses on the survivor rather than imagery of the victims, leading us to question the effectiveness of words over pictures, as well as the way in which they interact to create meaning outside the boundaries of one medium |
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Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie
Damn! There Goes the Neighbourhood 1998 Significance: - To create this image, she took old photographs and collaged them with bits of appropriated imagery to create pointed yet humorous indictments of Eurocentric points of view. - Refers to the issue of preservingNative culture within a multicultural society that is often confronted with the loss of indigenous identity and history. |
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Andreas Gursky
Rhein III 1999 Significance: - Part of a set of six images of the River Rhine, the 2nd of this series was auctioned off in 2011 for $4.3 million, making it the most expensive photograph ever sold. - It was near impossible to obtain a photograph only displaying the landscape due to the business of this area, therefore Gursky removed human presence from the image through digital editing, making the photograph a fictitious construction of this modern river |
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Jeff Wall Dead Troops Talk 1991 Significance: - This is a completely constructed image, Wall photographed actors in the studio in individual sections and later assembled each section together digitally,simulating a monumental outdoor photograph. - Like many artists who came of age in the Postmodern moment, Wall sometimes leaves clues to the image’s artificiality, such as the obviously fake blood stains on the clothing of the troops. |
