Monday, 16 April 2012

More History of Photography

Aaron Siskind 1949

  • Jerome, Arizona
  • Close up of a peeling surfce-Abstract
El Lissitsky 1924
  • The Constructor
  • Playing around with photos- Montage
Hannah Hoch 1919 (Just after WW1)
  • Cut with the kitchen knife Dada...
  • 1919 was the beginnings of photomontage 
  • Collage, collecting magazines
  • Disrupted the way people saw images-using scale, people were socked by the poltical offences, they had no formality
Raoul Ubac 1938
  • La Conciliabule
  • Photo abstract- using double developing - was done in photography
Albert Renger-Patzch 1924
  • 'The world is beautiful' series
  • Critisied for not testing what could be done and not pushing any boundaries
Jack Vettriano
  • Painter
  • The work is held in private venues but rarely shown in galleries
  • Most bought living artist in the UK
  • He is a technical painter
  • But has no link to history of art
Dziga Vertov 1929
  • Man with a movie camera
Harold Egerton 1936
  • Ping pong ball splashing coloured milk
  • was taken using flash with exposure time of 1 millionth of a second
  • was the beginning of movement photography
Jerry Uelsmann
  • Uses 2 frames to make a surrealist photo
Eddie Adams 1968
  • 'General Loan executing a Vietcong suspect'
  • seen as brutal
  • changed the public view of the Vietnamese
Huynh Cuong (Nick) VT 1972
  • Children fleeing a Napalm strike
  • Was an iconic photo at the time
Manit sriwanichpoom 1972
  • The Bloodless war series
Gursky
  • Like we are ants
  • looking into our lives
Warhol
  • Repetition
  • Marilyn Monroe
Christopher Caine
  • Up and coming fashion designer
  • Uses knitted products
  • Used size 12 modes on the catwalk- bigger than the average  size 6/8 models used by other designers
Marco Everistti
  • Taken to court
  • Art Director-Peter MAyer
  • Goldfish in blender
Thomas Demand
  • Good to use for silence
  • Makes 3D models from cardboard then destroyed them
Justin Quinnel
  • Mouthpiece series
  • Breakfast 2009
  • A Bristonian photographer
  • Using pinhole photography
Nanook of the North 1921
  • Using film to document the life of Eskimos- very sociological
  • Re-staged Eskimo culture
  • Life was more developed, updated and modern
Susan Sontag
  • 1977 pp3-24
  • To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed

Intertextuality
  • Is the way artists use other/original images

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