HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY - Exam #2 REVIEW
Chapters 7, 8, 9, 10
CHAPTER 7
Photography Movements/ Styles
Pictorialism
Photosecessionists
Vocabulary Terms
photogravure
platinotype /platinum print
gum-bichromate print
Photographers
Pictorialism - F. Holland Day - Untitled (Crucifixion) (1898) Platinum print
Alphonse Mucha - Photographic study and graphic design (1903)
George Davison - The Onion Field (1889) photogravure
Fredrick Evans - Kelmskott Manor: The Attics (1896) Platinum print
- The Sea of Steps: Wells Cathedral (1903) Platinum print
Photosecessionists - Edward Steichen - Woods Interior (1898) Platinum print
-Pond-moonlight (1904) gum-bichromate print
-Rodin (1902) Gum-bichromate Print
Gertrude Käsebier - Robert Henri (1907) Gelatin-silver print
- Blessed Art Thou AmongWomen (1900) Platinum print
Alvin Langdon Coburn - Brooklyn Bridge (1910 –12) photogravure
- The Octopus (1912) Platinum print
Alfred Stieglitz - Paula and Sun Rays (1889) Gelatin silver print
-The Steerage (1907) photogravure
-Equivalents (1927) Gelatin silver prints
-From The Shelton Westward (1931) Gelatin silver print
-Georgia O’ Keeffe (1922) Gelatin silver print
-Georgia O’ Keeffe Hands (1917) gelatin silver..
CHAPTER 8
Photography Movements/ Styles
Social-Documentary
Farm Security Administration
Photographers
Social-Documentary
Jacob Riis – How the other Half Lives (1889)
Before/after photographs
Lewis Hine – Ellis Island Photographs (1905),
Carolina Cotton Mill (1908)
and Men at Work Series (1932)
Frances Benjamin Johnston - Hampton Institute: Students at Work on Stairway (1900)
August Sander - Face of Our Time Portrait Series (1928)
Farm Security Admin. - Arthur Rothstein - Dust Storm, Cimarron County (1937)
Dorothea Lange - Migrant Mother (1936)
Walker Evans - Window Display, Bethlehem Pennsylvania (1935)
Ben Shahn - Cotton Pickers, Arkansas (1935)
Margaret Bourke-White – Life Magazine Cover (1936)
- Two Women, Lansdale Arkansas (1936)
- Bread Line (1937)
- Buchenwald (1945)
- Ghandi, India (1946)
CHAPTER 9 (Day 7)
Photography Movements/ Styles
Dada (Europe: Germany, Switzerland, England)
Surrealism (France)
Russian Constructivism (Russia)
Bauhaus (Germany)
Straight Photography (U.S.A. & Europe)
New Objectivity (Germany)
Precisionism (U.S.A. – East Coast and Midwest)
f64 Group (U.S.A. – California, & Mexico)
Vocabulary Terms
Collage
Photomontage
Photogram
fstops
shutter speed
depth-of-field
dodging and burning
Photographers
Dada - Christian Schad - Schadograph (1918) photogram
Man Ray - Untitled (Wire Spiral,) (1923) Rayograph (photogram)
Hannah Hoch - Cut With The Kitchen Knife (1923) photomontage
John Heartfield - Adolph the Superman: He Eats Gold and Spews Idiocies (1932)
Multiple-negative print
- Have no fear: He’s a Vegetarian (1939)photomontage
Alvin Langdon Coburn - Vortographs (1917)
Surrealism - Man Ray - Violin d’Ingres (1924)
Constructivism - Alexandr Rodchenko – assorted posters & graphic designs
- Portrait of my Mother (1924)
Sergei Eisenstein – film stills fromBalttleship Potemkin (1925)
Bauhaus - Laszlo Moholy-Nagy - From The Radio Tower, Berlin (1928)
Straight Photography - Alfred Stieglitz - The Steerage (1907) Photogravure
André Kertész - Distortions (1933)
Carrefour Blois (1930)
New Objectivity - Albert Renger-Patzsch – Agave (1922)
Factory (1928)
Precisionism - Charles Sheeler – Ford Plant (1927)
f.64 Group - Edward Weston – Pepper (1930)
- Shells (1927)
- Nudes (1936)
- Tina Modotti with Downcast Eyes (1924)
- Charis, Mexico (1937)
- Rose Roland-Covarrubias (1926)
- Portrait of Frida Khalo (1930)
Tina Modotti - Worker’s Hands (1927)
- Wires (1926)
- Campesinos (1926)
- Woman of Tehauntepec (1929)
Imogen Cunningham - Two Callas (1929)
-Magnolia Blossom (1929)
-Portrait of Frida Kahlo (1930)
Ansel Adams - Monolith, the face of Half Dome,Yosemite, California (1927)
- Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite Valley (1944)
- Aspen Trees (1958)
- The Sierra Nevada and Mt. Whitney from Lone Pine(1944)
- Moonrise, New Mexico (1941)
CHAPTER 10
Photography Movements/ Styles
Photojournalism – Social scene, Politics, War, Sports
Photographers
Martin Munkacsi - Footballers (1928), Goalkeeper (1928), Three Boys, Libya (1930),
Soldiers in front of German Parliament Building (1933), From a Zepplin (1932)
Erich Salomon - Presidential Palace in Berlin (1930)
Margaret Bourke-White - Nuremburg, after Bombing 1945
Robert Capa - Death of a Loyalist Soldier (1936), Normandy (1944)
Brassaï - Paris by Night Series (1933)
Henri Cartier-Bresson - Puddle-Jump (1932), America (1945),
Various photos from Spain, France, Mexico… (1930s)
Weegee - “This was a friendly game of Bocci” (1939), Naked City (1936),
The Critic (1943)
Barbara Morgan - Martha Graham in Letter to the World (1940)
Harold Edgerton - Golf Swing (1938), Milk Drops (1936)
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For the EXAM:
IMAGE IDENTIFICATIONS will include:
Photographer’s name
Date (to closest decade)
Stylistic Group/ Art Movement (see list below)
Additional Fact
Pictorialism
Photosecessionists
Social-Documentary
Farm Security Administration
Dada
Surrealism
Russian Constructivism
Bauhaus
New Objectivity
Precisionism
f64 Group
Photojournalism
For each of these stylistic groups, be able to:
• recognize their styles
• name individual photographers
• identify country/region
• identify their preferred subject matter
for example -f64 Group interested in landscape, nature
- dada prefers abstract shapes, collage, text + image, bizarre humorous
- Bauhaus was in Germany, Precisionism from the U.S.A… etc.