V-J Day In Ten Square (Photographs) Flashcards
“99 Cent II Diptychon”
Andreas Gursky
German
Photography
(Sold for $3.34 million)
Art Kane
American
Fashion/music photographer
(1958 photo of 57 musicians, including Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, and Sonny Rollins)
(Picture noted for its role in “The Terminal” with Tom Hanks)
“Afghan Girl”
Steve McCurry
American
Photography
(June 1985 National Geographic)
(Girl was Sharbat Gula)
(Soviet occupation of Afghanistan)
“Abbey Road”
Iain Macmillan
Scottish
Photography
“Abraham Lincoln, 1860”
Mathew Brady
American
Portrait photography
(Took many Civil War photographs)
(Picture taken on same day as Cooper Union Speech, Lincoln said that this photo made him president)
“Bandit’s Roost”
Jacob Riis
Danish-American
Photojournalism
(from How the Other Half Lives)
(59 1/2 Mulberry St.)
(most crime-ridden part of NYC)
“Atomicus”
Philippe Halsman
Latvian-American
Portrait Photography
(Depicts Salvador Dali, water, and a cat)
“Bliss”
Charles O’Rear
American
Photography
(Photograph taken in Sonoma County, California)
(Not edited in anyway)
(Background of XP computers)
“Born Free and Equal”
Ansel Adams
American
Landscape Photography
(Depicted scenes from Manzanar War Relocation Center)
“Boat People”
Eddie Adams
American
Photojournalism
(Part of a series called “The Boat of No Smiles”)
(depicted a desperate woman wrapped in a blanket cradling an ailing child on the deck of boat that had just been towed back out to sea by the Thai navy)
(Photos convinced Jimmy Carter to give Vietnamese boat people asylum)
“Burning Oil Sludge North of Denver”
Robert Adams
American
Landscape Photography
“Boulevard du Temple”
Louis Daguerre
French
Daguerreotype photography
(1838, earliest known candid photograph of a peson)
(10 minute exposure, captures man polishing shoes)
“Child with Toy Hand Grenade in Central Park”
Diane Arbus
American
Photography
“Clearing Winter Storm”
Ansel Adams
American
Landscape Photography
(Yosemite)
“Doe Eye”
Erwin Blumenfeld
American
Photography
(Shown at an exhibit at the Met named “Faking It”)
“Domestic Appliances”
Grete Stern
German
Photographer
(shows a man’s hand turning on a lamp whose column is in the form of a woman and was one of 150 works in this genre titled Psychoanalysis Will Help You)
“Earthrise”
William Anders / Apollo 8
American
Astronomy
(A good point that was made on the Internet about this picture is that every person in existance, past or present, has existed in the frameshot of this picture, except for William Anders)
“El Capitan”
Ansel Adams
American
Landscape Photography
(Yosemite)
“Equivalents”
Alfred Stieglitz
American
Photography
“Fiat Lux series of UC Berkeley”
Ansel Adams
American
Photography
“Gandhi at his Spinning Wheel”
Margaret Bourke-White
American
Documentary Photography
(Picture taken hours before Gandhi’s assassination)
The three main founders of f/64
Ansel Adams
Edward Weston
Imogen Cunningham
Edward Weston was the first photographer to win what art grant in 1937?
Guggenheim Fellowship
“Henry Miller: The Paris Years”
Brassai
Hungarian-French
Photography
“Ice on Ellery Lake, Sierra Nevada”
Ansel Adams
American
Photography
“Identical Twins, Roselle, New Jersey, 1967”
Diane Arbus
American
Photographer
“Jackson Pollock at Work”
Hans Namuth
American
Portrait Photography
“Le Violon d’Igres”
Man Ray
American
Surrealism
(Kiki and f-holes)
“Looking Down Sacramento Street, San Francisco, April 18, 1906”
Arnold Genthe
American
Photography
(Right after the SF earthquake)
“Lost Photos of D-Day”
Robert Capa
Hungarian
Photojournalism
(Darkroom technician accidently destroyed all but 11 photos)
(Served as an inspiration for ‘Saving Private Ryan’)
International photography cooperative that included:
- Robert Capa
- David “Chim” Seymour
- George Rodger
- Eve Arnold, who took photos of Marilyn Monroe on “The Misfits”
Magnum Photos
“Many Are Called”
Walker Evans with James Agee
Americans
Photography
“Migrant Mother”
Dorothea Lange
American
Photogrpahy
(person is Florence Owns Thompson)
“Moon and Half-Dome at Yosemite”
Ansel Adams
American
Photography
“Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico”
Ansel Adams
American
Photography
(He became a self-sustained photograph by making prints of this)
(Over a cemetery)
“Nautilus”
Edward Weston
American
Still Life
(Depicts a shell)
“Nude (Charis, Santa Monica)”
Edward Weston
American
Portrait Photography
(Depicts his future wife Charis Wilson)
“New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape”
“Tract House, Westminster, CO”
Robert Adams
American
American landscape
(Depicts post-industrial landscapes)
“Old and New New York”
Alfred Stieglitz
American
Photography
“Orville Cox and Georgia O’Keefe”
Ansel Adams
American
Landscape Photography
(Rare portrait picture)
(Guide Orville Cox standing next to Georgia O’Keefe with WEIRD face)
“Pale Blue Dot”
Voyager 1
American-built
Satellite
(3.7 billion miles away)
(Carl Sagan said “all of human history has happened on that tiny pixel, which is our only home”)
“Paris by Night”
Brassai
Hungarian-French
Photography
(1932)
“Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras”
Ansel Adams
American
Landscape Photography
(Commissioned by Jean Chambers Moore, published by his friend Alfred Bender)
(Adams had problem with title: “Parmelian” was a made-up word by Moore, and Sierras didn’t need to be pluralized)
“Patti Smith’s ‘Horses’”
Robert Mapplethorpe
American
“Pepper No. 30”
Edward Weston
American
Still Life
(Depicts a green pepper)
“Photograph of Rose Selavy”
Man Ray
American
Photography
-and depicts as a cross dresser-
Marcel Duchamp
French
Surrealism
“Picture of Allie Mae Burroughs”
Walker Evans
American
Photography
(She’s against the wall of her family’s cabin in Hale County)
“Pictures of hurt London”
Bill Brandt
German-British
Photojournalism
(He did not take this photo below. The picture below was taken anonymously)
“Piss Christ”
Andres Serrano
American
Photography
(That’s a crucifix inside a glass of urine)
“Proust in the Power of Photography”
Brassai
Hungarian-French
Photography
“Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima”
Joe Rosenthal
American
Photography
“Rhein II”
Andreas Gursky
German
Photography
(Sold for $4.3 million, making it most expensive of all time)
“Rose and Driftwood”
Ansel Adams
American
Landscape photography
(after an inspirational meeting with Paul Strand)
“Saigon Execution”
Eddie Adams
American
Photojournalism
(Police Chief Nguyễn Ngọc Loan executing Nguyễn Văn Lém on February 1, 1968)
(.38 revolver and a flannel shirt)
(Won a Pulitzer for it)
“Southern sharecropper photographs”
“Southern Singing”
Walker Evans
American
Photography
(His photos + James Agee’s writing = “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men”)
“Subway Passengers”
Walker Evans
American
Photography
(newspaper headline “PAL TELLS HOW GUNGIRL KILLED”)
“The Falling Man”
Richard Drew
American
Photographer
(North Tower from 9/11)
“The Falling Soldier”
Robert Capa
Jewish-Hungarian
Photography
(taken on September 5, 1936 and long thought to depict the death of a Republican, specifically an Iberian Federation of Libertarian Youth (FIJL) soldier during the Spanish Civil War, who was later identified as the anarchist Federico Borrell García.)
“The Horse In Motion”
Eadweard Muybridge
English
Motion Photography
(Hired by Leland Stanford to determine if a horse becomes airbourne while galloping)
(They do)
“The Perfect Moment exhibition”
Robert Mapplethorpe
American
(Shown in the National Endowment of the Arts exhibition)
(Series of painting, including BDSM and urinating, and much weirder things)
“The Pond-Moonlight”
Edward Steichen
American
Photography
(Had a run in trying to get Brancusi’s Bird In Space through U.S. Customs)
“The Situation Room”
Pete Souza
American
White House Photography
(Taken on May 1, 2011 as we take down Osama)
(Hilary has hand on mouth)
“The Steerage”
Alfred Stieglitz
American
Photo Seccessionism
(wife Georgia O’Keeffe)
(boat here is Kaiser Wilhelm II)
“The Terminal”
Alfred Stieglitz
American
Photography
“Three Americans Dead on Buna Beach”
George Strock
American
Photographer
(President Roosevelt authorised release of this image, the first to depict American soldiers dead on the battlefield. He was concerned that the American public were growing complacent about the cost of the war on human life.)
“Tianamen Square”
Jeff Widener
American
Photography
“Torn Movie Poster”
Walker Evans
American
Photography
“V-J Day in Times Square”
Alfred Eisenstaedt
German-American
Photojournalism
“Wall Street”
Paul Strand
American
Modernist photography
“View from the Window at Le Gras”
Nicéphore Niépce
French
Heliography
(This is the world’s oldest surviving photograph)
(1826 or 1827)
“White Angel Breadline”
Dorothea Lange
American
Photojournalism
(depicts a crowd of men with their backs to the viewer, while a solitary man looking towards the viewer has his hands clasped. He wears a dirty hat and has an empty cup near him)
“Winter - Fifth Avenue”
Alfred Stieglitz
American
Photography
“You Have Seen Their Faces”
Erskine Caldwell and Margaret Bourke-White
Americans
Southern Author and Documentary Photography
(Depicts the South and its problems)
(Predates ‘Let Us Now Praise Famous Men’)
Technique developed by Fred Archer and Ansel Adams ranking exposure values
Zone System
(1 - 9 was called the “dynamic range” by Adams)
“Cover art for the journal Camera Work”
Edward Steichen
American
Tonalist
(Published by Alfred Stieglitz quarterly)
