OUGD401 - Lecture Notes: Photograph as Document
- Killburn - 1848 - documenting a social event - protest
- Photographer is an invisible observer - not commenting, just documenting
- 'How the other half live' - Jacob Riss 1890
- Lewis Hine - 1908 - his work makes changes to the law - especially children - reports conditions - doesn't try shock the viewer
- Margeret Bourke-White - 1937
- Not subjective - should be objective - photography was trusted to be this
- Sharecropper home - dramatic creative - very directive - contrast
- Russel Lee - 1939 - Interior of a black farmers home - less composition - no human presence - recording - no manipulation
- Dorothea Lange - Migrant Mother - 1936 - manipulation of the viewer - image becomes more important than poverty & the people
- Her other images provide some context & conditions
- Modernism style of photography
- Bill Brandt - 1937 - UK - work class life
- Robert Frank - 1958 - Travels through America & photographs - redefinition of document - uses titles to contradict image - 'Parade' - shows observers, not the parade.
- William Klein - 1954/55 - Acknowledgement of the photographer - known for use of blur - 'Dame in Brooklyn'
- Magnum group - founded in 1947 by Cartier-Bresson & Capa - ethos of documenting the world - not fixed nationally.
- The decisive moment - photography achieves its highest distinction
- Document & War - Robert Capa - The falling soldier 1936 - Normandy France 1945
- William Neidich - 1989 - purposely constructed
- Rodger - More document in the middle of a wrestling competition
- Jeremy Dour - 2001 - Reconstructs history in present day with people who originally took part - preserving the memory of political struggle
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