Slides Flashcards
Stieglitz
Winter on Fifth Avenue
Photogravure
1893
- Waited for perfect formation of composition
Stieglitz
The Steerage
photogravure
1907
- used spontaneity of judgement or precomposing
Strand
Wall Street
photogravure
1917
- 1st purposeful abstract composition. Attention is brought to form/unusual view/unity
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.
John Heartfield
The Meaning of Geneva, Where Capital Lives, Peace Cannot Survive
Cover of Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitungr
1932
- Political commentary on the Third Reich.
Charles Sheeler
Bucks County Barn
gelatin silver print
1916
- Attention is brought to rectangular shapes in composition
Edward Weston
Dunes, Oceano
gelatin silver print
1936
- Clarity of form, details compressed, resulting in physiological release.
Aleksandr Rodchenko
Chauffeur
gelatin silver print
1933
- distorted mirror shot.
Lewis Hine
Carolina Cotton Mill
gelatin silver print
1908
- exposed child labor in south
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Children Playing in Ruins, Spain
gelatin silver print
1933
- Wall used as frame to play. irony.
Aaron Siskind
Chicago 30
gelatin silver print
1949
- Style similar to abstract expressionist painting.
Minor White
The Three Thirds
gelatin silver print
1957
- Composed as progression of moments. Youth, middle age, old.
Robert Frank
Parade, Hoboken, NJ
gelatin silver print
1955
- Flag beheads woman, giving a sense of impersonality.
Diane Arbus
Identical Twins, Roselle Park, NJ
gelatin silver print
1966
- made daily, normal scene freakish and abnormal.
Lee Friedlander
New York City
gelatin silver print
1964
- windows are papered off to frame man and divide image into 2 parts.
William Eggleston
Memphis
dye transfer print
1970
- progress in color photography with weston influences.
