Exam 3, Part 3 Flashcards
Emmet Gowin
Photos of his wife; Eleanor
Nicholas Nixon
one image each year of wife and sister
Joel Peter Witkin
- Photographs tableaux
- Painterly,
- Avoided criticism
Aaron Siskind
- shifted from documentary to painterly
- Psychological nature
Cindy Sherman
- Pcs of herself in different roles, characters.
- catalogue 20th century women
- influence on black and white film still
Sherrie Levine
- Questioned famous photographs of the belief in the unique qualities and authenticity.
Christian Boltanski
- Memory and Forgetting
- Sculptural pieces
- Draws on archives
Annete Messager
- Sculptural Pieces
- personal in nature
- Personal archive of image
Sandy Skoglund
- photographs elaborate sculptures she constructs for the pic
Robert Rauschenberg
- Photografer, and painter with pics
- Combines
Gerhard Richter
- Painter
- ‘Atlas’
- Catalog of interests
Dough and Mike Starn
- Large scale
- Scratched, torn, toned
David Hockney
- Criticized Photography
- Doesn’t depict the world as we see it.
- Made photoworks, pieced together from fragments
Sigmar Polke
- Painter
- Interested in photos changes over time
- Rendering his prints unstable
Andy Warhol
- Popartist
- Incorporated photos in his silkscreen paintings
Modernism
- Arts movement 20th Century
- Drawn towards abstraction and subjective expression of unique interests
Appropriation
- Use of pre-excisting images by someone else in artwork.
Post-Modernism
- Movement in 1980
- Rejection of Modernism
- turned to appropriated mass produced images.
Robert Frank
- Published the ‘Americans’
- Unpopular because it was taken as attack on USA.
- Aesthetic and fine printing
- Influenced by Walker Evans
August Sander
- Published ‘Antlitz der Zeit, Face of Times’
- Portraits of people and their profession.
Diane Arbus
- Tought by Lisette Model
- Portraits of ‘Freaks’
- Often disturbing
Berndt and Hilla Becher
- New Topographers
- Grid, types of buildings, structures
Frederick Sommer
- Out of Focus Nudes
- Amputated food
Andre Kertesz
- Distorted nudes
- Curved sheets of reflective metal
Hans Bellmer
- Distorted mannequins
- color added by hand
E.J. Bellocq
- Prostitutes in New Orleans
- Many glass plates have been scratched
Bill Brandt
- Distorted Nudes
- Extreem angle lens
- Believed atmosphere can make everything beautiful
John Coplans
- Detailed nude self portraits
Sally Mann
- Pics of her nude children
- Much debated
Jock Sturges
- Nude teenage photos
- Assistant arrested
- Accused child pornography
- Ultimately acquitted
Robert Mapplethorpe
- S&M gay scene and portraits
- in Cincinnati the director was arrested for displaying nude children
Andres Serrano
- ‘Piss Christ’
Larry Clark
- ‘Tulsa’ the life of drug addicts in Tulsa, Oklahoma
Nan Goldin
- ‘Ballad of Sexual Dependency’, a visual diary.
- Camera was a part of her life
Lee Friedlander
- Self portraits
- Hiding, reflections, shadows
Wendy Ewald
- Taught children photo in Appalachia and around the world
- known for children’s honesty and lack of inhibition
Hanna Wilke
- Self portraits
- flaunting her beauty and fighting her cancer
Francesca Woodman
- Self portraits
- Student at RISD
Lucas Samaras
- Highly manipulated polaroid SX-70 self portraits
Guillame Duchene de Boulogne
- Worked with Adrien Tournachon
- Physiognomy book to prove facial expressions are mechanically produced
Albert Londe
- Multicamera setup
- pic scenes of patients epileptic and hysterical fits
Alphonse Bertillon
- Pioneer in the french police department
- developed a verbal and visual system to identify criminals
Hugh Welch Diamond
- 100’s portraits of female patients
- Surrey Hospital for the insane
Edward Sheriff Curtis
- Photographed native americans
- Believed they were vanishing race
Walker Evans
- Photographer of USA
- Accumulation of details
- Fascinated by images of popular cultures
- Published ‘American Photographs’
- Described as a pop-artist
