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Daguerreotypes
1st show of daguerreotypes ⟹ success
Used for portraits, became a way of reporting events like wars -
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Multiplication of images
Negatives and paper prints ⟹ multiple paper images possible -
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Civil War
Photographers chronicled the conflict
Documentary photographies -
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New use
Photography used for mapping the country ⟹ more detailed and precise
Helped the construction railroads and the work of geologists and naturalists -
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Creation of the Kodak
by George Eastman / Revolution in the photography ⟹ laid the foundation for popular, spontaneous and amateur photography -
"How the other half lives"
by Jacob Riis, texts and pictures describing homeless boys
Use of the flash ⟹ possibility of taking pictures inside and outside -
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Pictorialism
Blurry-edged pictures with soft, dreamy atmospheric effects
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Photo-Secession
Stieglez created the movement Photo-Secession to promote Pictorialism -
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Camera Work
Stieglez founded the journal Camera Work -
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Stieglez opened a gallery, centre for avant-garde art -
"The steerage"
by Alfred Stieglez -
"Wall Street"
by Paul Strand
Geometric compositions, unusual perspectives -
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Dada movement, surrealism
Refuse traditional values and ideologies
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Modernism
"Straight" photography, 2D, close-ups
Inspired by the machine and the industrial age -
"Black and White"
by Man Ray -
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Great Depression
After the crash of the 1929
Creation of the Federal Art Project and Farm Security Administration to help artists, documents the lives of farmers and preserve these photos -
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Documentary photographies
Photographers chronicled condition of people's lives
Rise of photo books -
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Magnum Photos
Creation of Magnum Photos to make photographers independant from magazines -
"Dovima with Elephant"
Richard Avedon, advertisement for Dior in the Cirque d'Hiver in Paris -
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Fashion photography
Field of fashion photography led by Irving Penn and Richard Avedon / Harper's Bazaar, Vogue -
"Singing Sculpture"
by Gilbert and George "the Living Sculptors", turned themselves and lives into sculptures -
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Use and abuse of photography
Photography ⟹ ideal medium, can be duplicated an infinite number of times, based on illusion, can be manipulated
Essential elements in the growing interactions between the arts
Andy Warhol, Barbara Kruger -
"VI"
Victor Burgin, same image repeated ten times with a different text each time -
"Untitled film Still N°4"
by Cindy Sherman, both actor and viewer, she disguised herself for her pictures -
"Dennis Speight with Calla Lilies"
by Robert Mapplethorpe, his homoerotic photographies have shocked -
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Controversy
Controversy between artists who represented gay, transgender, erotic art and those who called for censorship -
"I shop therefore I am"
by Barbara Kruger, created images with found photographs taken out of their context across which she added texts in the manner of advertising slogans -
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Contemporary scene
Variety of individual arts, eclectic arts ⟹ globalization opened up to the influence of other cultures, multiculturalism -
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New type of art
Computerization and Net Art
Art available to all
Connection art-business
