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Stieglitz

Winter on Fifth Avenue

Photogravure

1893

  • Waited for perfect formation of composition
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Stieglitz

The Steerage

photogravure

1907

  • used spontaneity of judgement or precomposing
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Strand

Wall Street

photogravure

1917

  • 1st purposeful abstract composition. Attention is brought to form/unusual view/unity
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Walker Evans

Allie Mae Burroughs, Wife of a Cotton Sharecropper, Hale County, Alabama

gelatin silver print

1936

  • conveying hardships of rural life. High detail to show age.
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John Heartfield

The Meaning of Geneva, Where Capital Lives, Peace Cannot Survive

Cover of Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitungr

1932

  • Political commentary on the Third Reich.
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Charles Sheeler

Bucks County Barn

gelatin silver print

1916

  • Attention is brought to rectangular shapes in composition
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Edward Weston

Dunes, Oceano

gelatin silver print

1936

  • Clarity of form, details compressed, resulting in physiological release.
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Aleksandr Rodchenko

Chauffeur

gelatin silver print

1933

  • distorted mirror shot.
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Lewis Hine

Carolina Cotton Mill

gelatin silver print

1908

  • exposed child labor in south
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Henri Cartier-Bresson

Children Playing in Ruins, Spain

gelatin silver print

1933

  • Wall used as frame to play. irony.
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Aaron Siskind

Chicago 30

gelatin silver print

1949

  • Style similar to abstract expressionist painting.
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Minor White

The Three Thirds

gelatin silver print

1957

  • Composed as progression of moments. Youth, middle age, old.
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Robert Frank

Parade, Hoboken, NJ

gelatin silver print

1955

  • Flag beheads woman, giving a sense of impersonality.
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Diane Arbus

Identical Twins, Roselle Park, NJ

gelatin silver print

1966

  • made daily, normal scene freakish and abnormal.
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Lee Friedlander

New York City

gelatin silver print

1964

  • windows are papered off to frame man and divide image into 2 parts.
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William Eggleston

Memphis

dye transfer print

1970

  • progress in color photography with weston influences.

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