Week 7&9 Flashcards
He used a 400mm focal length
Peter Emerson
This process produces delicacy and soft greys
Platinotype
Peter Emerson used the:
Platinotype
He advised photographers to put lens slightly out of focus because this is how the human eye sees
Peter Emerson
This photographer rejected retouching
Peter Emerson
This photographer believed that photography was an artform
Alfred Stieglitz
This photographer manipulated negatives by chemical means and by using slides on slides
Alfred Stieglitz
Alfred Stieglitz joined:
The Society of Amateur Photographers and became their editor
Pictorial Photography
based on principles of art
Who started pictorial photography
Henry Peach Robinson
Chiaroscuro
treatment of light and shade in drawing and painting
Pictorial photography used an art principle called
Chiaroscuro
What is straight photography?
People on the street, machines, abstractions, architectural scenes
Paul Strand studied under:
Lewis Hine
Earned a living making films
Paul Strand
Where did Eugene Atget sell his work?
Artists, museums, librarys
What did Eugene Atget work with?
8x10 box camera, wooden tripod, glass plate
Opened own portrait studio in California in 1911
Edward Weston
Was famous for abstract and realism, nude photography, obsessed with detail in clarity
Edward Weston
Why did Edward Weston reject enlarging?
Loss of precision
Emerson used what kind of photography
Straight photography
During his career he won’t 150 medals for photography in Europe and the US
Alfred Stieglitz
These became an important avenue for photographers to get noticed
Salons
Alfred Stieglitz created his own publication called;
Camera Works and the “Photo-Secession”
Photo Secession
to advance photography as applied to pictorial expression photography, to draw together Americans practising or otherwise interested in Art
Gallery 291
Little galleries of the Photo Secession in NYC - 291 Fifth Avenue
Exhibited work by Secessionists along with paintings to associate photography with fine art
Gallery 291
Paul Strand used
Straight photographic technique
He photographed “Blind” and “Young Boy”
Paul Strand
How many photographs did Eugene Atget produce?
10,000 photographs in 30 years
He was a documentary photographer, street photographer and Artist
Eugene Atget
Obsessed with depth of field, clarity, and depth of field
Edward Weston
Edward Weston bought what kind of Lens?
f/256 - “This should satisfy my craving for more depth of focus”
in 1932, a group of young photographers formed the Group “F.64” honouring:
Edward Weston
The photo secession founded by Alfred Stieglitz formed the beginnings of?
Modernism in Photography
Straight photography also known as:
Equivalents: to his thoughts, hopes, aspirations, despairs, and fears
Which photography said the artist role was to imitate the effect of nature on the eye?
Peter Emerson
“Photography should take its place in open review with other mediums, this way its possibilities and limitations are more carefully judged”
Alfred Stieglitz
Paul Strand was one of the founders of?
The photo League: social and political causes
____’s work moved _____ to change his approach and abandon painting and explore straight photography.
Paul Strand, Steichen
Born in Libourne, France. Worked as a sailor then an actor
Eugene Atget
This photographer moved to Mexico City in 1923 where he created his most famous work - portraits, nudes, natural forms, close-ups, landscapes
Edward Weston
Modernism in photography:
Evolution of photography from a soft painterly quality to modern form taking shape in clarity and detail
What age did Atget began photographing?
40
Photographed “The Pepper”
Edward Weston
