Photography Final Flashcards
Big Albert’s Gang
Photographer: Brassai
Year: 1932
- Brassai was known for taking photographs of the Parisian nightlife
- Engaged with his subjects and identified them
- Used low light to photograph Parisian subcultures
Broadway and 103rd Street (kid pointing gun at camera)
Photographer: William Klien
Year: 1955
- Used photography as a weapon to talk about what he saw and stand up
- Took a critical perspective on life in New York and wasn’t interested in glorifying it
- Pushed the limits of photography by smearing emulsion and intentionally using blur
The Giant (weird wall face thing)
Photographer: Frederick Sommer
Year: 1946
- Elevated found objects into something new
- Used Abstract Expressionism
- His subjects challenge us to question beauty
Men’s Room, Railway Station (Man getting shoe polished in bathroom)
Photographer: Robert Frank
Year: 1955 or 56
- Had a Guggenheim funded 2 year road trip across America which resulted in the book “The Americans”
- Defied photo conventions by making contrast, prints random compositions, and used things like drunken horizons
- He looked at loneliness and longing in post WWII America
Their First Murder (Come back to this with info)
Photographer: WeeGee
Year: 1941
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Mexican Dwarf
Photographer: Diane Arbus
Year: 1970
- She brought a human dimension to people on the fringe
- Used a straightforward engaged point of view, looked for individuality
- Her style was stark and included intimate spaces
“Untitled Film Still”
Photographer: Cindy Sherman
Year: 1977-80
- She created post-modern self portraits
- Her untitled film stills are copies without originals in order to call out female stereotypes and tropes in media
- She made fun of culture from a feminist perspective.
D-Day, Omaha Beach
Photographer: Robert Capa
Year: 1944
- Capa was a war photographer who got close to and in the action
- Engaged with the energy of the battle
- Co-founded Magnum in 1947
- Was the first American correspondent killed in Vietnam in 1955 after he stepped on a landmine.
Bar (Jukebox photo)
Photographer: Robert Frank
Year: 1955
- Used the Jukebox as a motif in his photographs and depicted it as a cultural religious icon
Behind the Saint Lazare (Man stepping into puddle)
Photographer: Henri Cartier Bresson
Year: 1932
- He was a pioneer of street photography
- He coined the term “decisive moment” and used movement and spontaneity to punctuate that moment
- Used fleeting moments in combination with precise compositions
Tenant Purchase Clients (Old couple in living room reading papers)
Photographer: Russell Lee
Year: 1940
- He was an FSA photographer during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl
- Was a master of interior photographs because of his use of the flash
- created 5,000 photographs for the FSA
- Used paradox, irony, and symbols in his photographs
Vivian (Portrait of woman with flowers that looked like a painting)
(Compare and contrast with Jackson, MS)
Photographer: Marie Cosindas
Year: 1966
- Used warm colors and compositions that made images (like this one) feel like a colorful painting. Photographed in studio
Jackson, MS (colored photo of old lady sitting and smoking on a couch outside)
(Compare and contrast with Vivian)
Photographer: William Eggleston
Year: 1969 or 1970
- takes indescribable universal emotions that exist in mundane life and describes them as palpable real tangible moments
Monolith, The face of Half Dome, Yosemite
(Compare and contrast with South corner)
Photographer: Ansel Adams
Year: 1927
- Photographed Yosemite for the Majesty of untouched nature
South Corner, Riccar America Company (pile of dirt in parking lot)
(Compare and contrast with Yosemite photo)
Photographer: Lewis Baltz
Year: 1974
- Part of the “New Topography Movement” which showed how civilization took over nature and became part of the mundane
