Week 10 Flashcards
Documentary photography
piece of written, printed or electronic matter that provides information or evidence or that serves as an official record
Photographed yellowstone National Park
William Henry Jackson
Early landscape/frontier photographer
William Henry Jackson
Jacob Riis was a:
Police reporter for the Evening Sun
Wrote a book called: How the Other Half Lives
Jacob Riis
This photographer was a Sociologist that used his camera as a Research tool:
Lewis Hine
What term did Lewis Hine coin with his work?
“Photo Story”
Lewis Hine was white kind of photographer?
Documentary photographer - started documenting children in 1905
FSA stands for?
Farm Security Administration
Photographed “Migrant Mother”
Dorothea Lange
What did Jacob Riis use for flash?
Potassium chlorate from a gun cartridge
A protective child labour law passed as a result of his work:
Lewis Hine
What was the FSA?
Photography Division headed by Roy Stryker in the 1930s
Photographed the famous image on the Empire State building “Men at Work”
Lewis Hine
Was the first foreign photographer allowed to photograph soviet industry
Margaret Bourke White
Worked as an illustrator for Vogue then a photographer
George Hoyningen-Huene
Margarete Bourke White was the first?
Female war photojournalist and first female photographer at Life Magazine
Challenged to turn fashion photography into fine art in 1911
Steichen
Paul Horst was known for?
Fashion and portraiture
Photographed Gandhi in 1946
Margarete Bourke White
Head photographer at Vogue for 15 years
Steichen
What quote did Hoyningene-Huene quote from Chanel?
L’elegance c’est moi
First Vogue cover in colour
Stechen in 1932
How did Richard Avedon?
While on assignment for the New Yorker in 2004
What was Richard Avedon known for?
Fashion for Harper Bazaar and Vogue, minimalist portraits, fashion photography, merchant marines
He created elegant black and white fashion portraits in real life settings
Richard Avedon
What was a turning point in Richard Avedon’s career?
When he focused on everyday working class subjects instead of famous public figures and fashion “In the American Midwest”
He photographed Marilyn Monroe
Richard Avedon
His work led to a revolt in 1887 against the slums and ultimately to housing reforms in New York
Jacob Riis
What else did Dorothea Lange photograph that she is very well known for?
Japanese internment - WW2
What kind of photographer was Margaret Bourke white predominantly?
Documentary / Reporter
Which 4 photographers worked for Vogue?
Steichen, Horst, Hoyningen-Huene, Avedon
This photographer did pure document work, not taking a strong position. Shot how simply and poorly they live
Walker Evans
