Wednesday 30 January 2013

OUGD401 - Lecture Notes: Photograph as Document

  • Killburn - 1848 - documenting a social event - protest
  • 'Window to the past'
  • 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
  • Walker Evans - 1936
  • 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
  • Robert Haeberle - 1969
  • George Rodger
  • Hung Cogut - 1972
  • Lee Miller
  • William Neidich - 1989 - purposely constructed
  • Edward Curtis
  • Rodger - More document in the middle of a wrestling competition
  • Bruno Barney - 1972
  • Jeremy Dour - 2001 - Reconstructs history in present day with people who originally took part - preserving the memory of political struggle

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