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History of Photography
Freaking Difficult Test
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Photography
Undergraduate 4
05/15/2013

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Erich Solomon

 

*first candid photography

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Bernd and Hilla Becher

 

*Conceptual Photography (illustration of ideas now that photography is more accessible- 60's and 70's)

 

* Photographs bare little nostalgia-staightforward 

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Bernd and Hilla Becher

 

*Conceptual Photography (illustration of ideas now that photography is more accessible- 60's and 70's)

 

* Photographs bare little nostalgia-staightforward 

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Barbara Kruger

 

*prominent in late 80's

 

*lots of black, white, and red

 

*aggresive images- pro choice

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Andre Kertez

 

*friend of Brassai

 

*Hungarian-born

 

*Significant to photojournalism

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Andre Kertez

 

*friend of Brassai

 

*Hungarian-born

 

*Significant to photojournalism

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Allan Sekula

 

*disagreed with the notion common in photography that you can make anything look "good"

 

*post-modern- contradictory, ironic

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Allan Sekula

 

*disagreed with the notion common in photography that you can make anything look "good"

 

*post-modern- contradictory, ironic

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Aaron Siskind

 

*Harlem Document

 

*after cold war- after post-war optimism

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Aaron Siskind

 

*Harlem Document

 

*after cold war- after post-war optimism

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Bernice Abbott

 

*versatile

 

*trained with Man Ray

 

*heavily influenced by Eugene Aget's photos of Paris- did her own version of photos of NY

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Bernice Abbott

 

*versatile

 

*trained with Man Ray

 

*heavily influenced by Eugene Aget's photos of Paris- did her own version of photos of NY

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Bernice Abbott

 

*versatile

 

*trained with Man Ray

 

*heavily influenced by Eugene Aget's photos of Paris- did her own version of photos of NY

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Bernice Abbott

 

*versatile

 

*trained with Man Ray

 

*heavily influenced by Eugene Aget's photos of Paris- did her own version of photos of NY

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Brassai

 

*lots of Paris night-life

 

*reminded people of a vampire because he would wander the streets of Paris at night, taking photos

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Brassai

 

*lots of Paris night-life

 

*reminded people of a vampire because he would wander the streets of Paris at night, taking photos

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Bruce Nauman

 

*conceptual photographer

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Henri Cartier-Bresson

 

*one of the first to use a hand-held camera

 

*founder of Magnum (photo movement)

 

*created "decisive moment" which deeply influenced street and documentary photography

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Cindy Sherman

 

*often did self-portraits where she would disguise herself

 

*post-modern

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Cindy Sherman

 

*often did self-portraits where she would disguise herself

 

*post-modern

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Danny Lyons

 

*wanted to "destroy life magazine": show America's uglier side with prisons and poverty

 

*influenced "new journalism", documentary photography

 

*rode with bikers, knew prisoners, was very close with subjects.

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Danny Lyons

 

*wanted to "destroy life magazine": show America's uglier side with prisons and poverty

 

*influenced "new journalism", documentary photography

 

*rode with bikers, knew prisoners, was very close with subjects.

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Danny Lyons

 

*wanted to "destroy life magazine": show America's uglier side with prisons and poverty

 

*influenced "new journalism", documentary photography

 

*rode with bikers, knew prisoners, was very close with subjects.

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Danny Lyons

 

*wanted to "destroy life magazine": show America's uglier side with prisons and poverty

 

*influenced "new journalism", documentary photography

 

*rode with bikers, knew prisoners, was very close with subjects.

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Diane Arbus

 

*studied with Lisette Model

 

*liked showing people in unflattering ways or photographed straight-up ugly and deformed people

 

*crazy

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Diane Arbus

 

*studied with Lisette Model

 

*liked showing people in unflattering ways or photographed straight-up ugly and deformed people

 

*crazy

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Dorothea Lange

 

*most famous for migrant mother photo

 

*co-founder of FSA, took photos to gain sympathy for middle Americans suffering from Great Depression

 

*her photos gained sympathy for social equity programs

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Edward Ruscha

 

*beat generation

 

*used text in his images

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Edward Steichen

 

*Curated Family of Man (over 500 images from 270 photographers that represented life, love, and death all over the world

 

*Heavily influential and powerful in photography world

 

*Influenced by Alfred Stieglitz

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Edward Weston

 

*part of the F64 (camera setting) movement

 

*unlike Allan Secoula, thought that you could make anything look pretty

 

*part of California Modernism (post WWII optimism)

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Edward Weston

 

*part of the F64 (camera setting) movement

 

*unlike Allan Secoula, thought that you could make anything look pretty

 

*part of California Modernism (post WWII optimism)

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Edward Weston

 

*part of the F64 (camera setting) movement

 

*unlike Allan Secoula, thought that you could make anything look pretty

 

*part of California Modernism (post WWII optimism)

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Eugene Smith

 

*fought to show images of wounded and dead in war

 

*member of Magnum

 

*contributed to Family of Man

 

*did photoessay called "Country Doctor"

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Eugene Smith

 

*fought to show images of wounded and dead in war

 

*member of Magnum

 

*contributed to Family of Man

 

*did photoessay called "Country Doctor"

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Eugene Smith

 

*fought to show images of wounded and dead in war

 

*member of Magnum

 

*contributed to Family of Man

 

*did photoessay called "Country Doctor"

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Eugene Smith

 

*fought to show images of wounded and dead in war

 

*member of Magnum

 

*contributed to Family of Man

 

*did photoessay called "Country Doctor"

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Garry Winogrand

 

*street photographer

 

*"I photographed to see what things would look like photographed

 

*contributed to Family of Man

 

*art is in the selection

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Garry Winogrand

 

*street photographer

 

*"I photographed to see what things would look like photographed

 

*contributed to Family of Man

 

*art is in the selection

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Gordon Parks

 

*worked for FSA

 

*Gothic America w/powerful images of black people

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Gordon Parks

 

*worked for FSA

 

*Gothic America w/powerful images of black people

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Graciela Iturbide

 

*studied with Manuel Alvarez Bravo

 

*enjoyed mixing modernism with tradition

 

 

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Graciela Iturbide

 

*studied with Manuel Alvarez Bravo

 

*enjoyed mixing modernism with tradition

 
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Hannah Hoch

 

*romantic and professional partners with Raoul Hausmann

 

*Berlin Da-Da movement

 

*One of the first prominent female da da photographers

 

*used photo montage

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Hans Bellmer

 

*used disturbing doll parts in photos

 

*anti-nazi

 

*Berlin da da

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Imogen Cunningham

 

*photographed flowers

 

*member of F64

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John Baldessari

 

*conceptual photographer

 

*began to use words in photos

 

*used the theme of "repair/retouch"

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John Baldessari

 

*conceptual photographer

 

*began to use words in photos

 

*used the theme of "repair/retouch"

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John Heartfield

 

*German dada- used photo-montage

 

*very anti-nazi, made fun of Hitler

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Larry Clark

 

*post-modern

 

*photographs were very explicit, teenagers having sex

 

*Harmony Korine

 

*dysfunctional families

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Lee Friedlander

 

*social documentarian/social landscapes

 

*put himself in photographs-subtle

 

*did book on American Monuments

 

*inspired by "The Americans" by Robert Frank

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Lee Friedlander

 

*social documentarian/social landscapes

 

*put himself in photographs-subtle

 

*did book on American Monuments

 

*inspired by "The Americans" by Robert Frank

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Lewis Baltz

 

*New Topographics-photographs of man-altered landscapes-related to minimalism, antithesis of ansel adams

 

*neutral and dispassionate

 

*cookie-cutter/industrial parks

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Lewis Baltz

 

*New Topographics-photographs of man-altered landscapes-related to minimalism, antithesis of ansel adams

 

*neutral and dispassionate

 

*cookie-cutter/industrial parks

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Lisette Model

 

*unflattering street photography

 

*taught Diane Arbus

 

*friends with Bernice Abbott

 

*funnily enough, also did fashion photography

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El Lissitzky

 

*dada, self-portrait is often contrasted with Steichen's painting-like self-portrait

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Lucas Samaras

 

*took photographs of himself and mutilated them

 

*conceptual

 

 

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Man Ray

 

*created "rayographs"

 

*influenced by Freud

 

*experimented with light

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Man Ray

 

*created "rayographs"

 

*influenced by Freud

 

*experimented with light

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Man Ray

 

*created "rayographs"

 

*influenced by Freud

 

*experimented with light

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Manuel Alvarez Bravo

 

*mistro of Mexican photography

 

*combined surrealism and modernism

 

*contributed to family of man

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Manuel Alvarez Bravo

 

*mistro of Mexican photography

 

*combined surrealism and modernism

 

*contributed to family of man

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Martha Bourke-White

 

*first photo on cover of life magazine

 

*documentary photography

 

*contributed to new visual culture by being one of the first photographic war correspondents

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Martha Bourke-White

 

*first photo on cover of life magazine

 

*documentary photography

 

*contributed to new visual culture by being one of the first photographic war correspondents

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Martha Rosler

 

*post-modern

 

*juxtaposed domestic pleasures with worldly conflicts

 

*feminist photography

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Martha Rosler

 

*post-modern

 

*juxtaposed domestic pleasures with worldly conflicts

 

*feminist photography

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Nacho Lopez

 

*studied with Bravo

 

*displayed contradictions in Mexican culture

 

*used mannequins

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Nacho Lopez

 

*studied with Bravo

 

*displayed contradictions in Mexican culture

 

*used mannequins

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Nan Goldin

 

*post-modern

 

*ballad of sexual dependency

 

*similar to Lary Clark in terms of grittiness

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Nan Goldin

 

*post-modern

 

*ballad of sexual dependency

 

*similar to Lary Clark in terms of grittiness

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Paul Outerbridge Jr.

 

*influenced new way to advertise- bigger images, less text

 

*modernist

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Richard Avedon

 

*famous fashion photography- put models in cool situations, drew attention away from clothes but it worked

 

*famous unflattering portraits of people

 

*Worked for Harper's Bazaar and Vogue

 

 

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Raoul Hausmann

 

*Berlin dada

 

*Partners with Hannah Hoch

 

*photo-montage

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Raoul Hausmann

 

*Berlin dada

 

*Partners with Hannah Hoch

 

*photo-montage

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Richard Avedon

 

*famous fashion photography- put models in cool situations, drew attention away from clothes but it worked

 

*famous unflattering portraits of people

 

*Worked for Harper's Bazaar and Vogue

 

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Richard Avedon

 

*famous fashion photography- put models in cool situations, drew attention away from clothes but it worked

 

*famous unflattering portraits of people

 

*Worked for Harper's Bazaar and Vogue

 

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Richard Prince

 

*post-modern

 

*cowboy imagery

 

 

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Richard Prince

 

*post-modern

 

*cowboy imagery

 

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Robert Frank

 

*post cold-war

 

*highly influential "the americans" project- road trip over two years, many images

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Robert Frank

 

*post cold-war

 

*highly influential "the americans" project- road trip over two years, many images

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Robert Frank

 

*post cold-war

 

*highly influential "the americans" project- road trip over two years, many images

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Robert Heinechen

 

*took part in the transition from conceptual to post-modern

 

*Founder of photo dept. at UCLA

 

*lots of images of TV, often commented on Vietnam War

 

*an artist who uses photography

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Robert Heinechen

 

*took part in the transition from conceptual to post-modern

 

*Founder of photo dept. at UCLA

 

*lots of images of TV, often commented on Vietnam War

 

*an artist who uses photography

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Robert Heinechen

 

*took part in the transition from conceptual to post-modern

 

*Founder of photo dept. at UCLA

 

*lots of images of TV, often commented on Vietnam War

 

*an artist who uses photography

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Robert Rauschenberg

 

*pop art- influenced by Andy Warhol

 

*work is familiar to berlin dada with collage

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Robert Smithson

 

*pop art period

 

*camera as record keeper

 

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Robert Smithson

 

*pop art period

 

*camera as record keeper

 

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Roy DeCarava

 

*stark black in photos

 

*worked with Langston Hughes on Sweet Flypaper of life

 

*post cold-war

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Roy DeCarava

 

*stark black in photos

 

*worked with Langston Hughes on Sweet Flypaper of life

 

*post cold-war

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Russell Lee

 

*FSA period

 

*displayed frontier virtues and self reliance

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Russell Lee

 

*FSA period

 

*displayed frontier virtues and self reliance

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Edward Steichen

 

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Walker Evans

 

*FSA

 

*no one should pick up polaroid 'til they're 60

 

*Let Us Praise Famous Men w/James Agee

 

*Fired from FSA-Striker wanted images with more sympathy

 

*nostalgic quality to images

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Walker Evans

 

*FSA

 

*no one should pick up polaroid 'til they're 60

 

*Let Us Praise Famous Men w/James Agee

 

*Fired from FSA-Striker wanted images with more sympathy

 

*nostalgic quality to images

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Walker Evans

 

*FSA

 

*no one should pick up polaroid 'til they're 60

 

*Let Us Praise Famous Men w/James Agee

 

*Fired from FSA-Striker wanted images with more sympathy

 

*nostalgic quality to images

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Willard Van Dyke

 

*F64- California Modernism

 

*sharp focus

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Willard Van Dyke

 

*F64- California Modernism

 

*sharp focus

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William Eggleston

 

*rich color photography

 

*from American south-nostalgic quality

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William Eggleston

 

*rich color photography

 

*from American south-nostalgic quality

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William Wegman

 

*broom thrower

 

*played with camera and manipulation

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