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Intimate Portraits
Exploration of the photographers’ immediate environment.
Definition:
Photographers:
Alfred Stieglitz
Theodore Lux Feininger
Dianne Arbus
Arnold Newman
William Eggleston
Alfred Steiglitz• Pioneer of Pictorialism
• Formed the Photo-secession – used a number of elaborate techniques manipulating images
• 291 gallery
• Aimed to use photography as a creative medium
Self-Portrait, 1907
William Eggleston 1939 -
• Captures image first time – no editing
• Henri-Cartier Bresson – the decisive moment
• Recognised as using colour photography as an art form
Formal Portrait
A staged photograph in a studio or on location.
Photographers:
Annie Leibovitz
Norman Parkinson
Cecil Beaton
Definition:
Fine Art
Manipulation of photographic medium to create a work of artistic value
Photographers:Julia Margaret Cameron
Chris Bucklow
Cindy Sherman
Edward Weston
Definition:
Edward Weston
Julia Margaret Cameron
Photographed high profile people of the time – Alfred Lord Tennyson, Sir John Herschel
Inspired by literature – Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement
Subject matter from paintings of Raphael, Giotto and Michelangelo
Whisper of the Muse / Portrait of G.F. Watts1865, Albumen print
"My aspirations are to ennoble Photography
and to secure for it the character and uses of
High Art by combining the real and Ideal
and sacrificing nothing of the Truth by all
possible devotion to Poetry and beauty.“
Paul and Virginia1865, Albumen printJulia Margaret Cameron
The Rosebud Garden of Girls1868, Albumen silver printJulia Margaret Cameron
Documentary
Documenting information about a subject over a period of time, using the camera to record the world.
Definition:
Photographers:
Dorothea Lange
Robert Weingarten
Lewis Hine
Diane Arbus
Martin Parr
Eve Arnold
Magazines
Life
Picture Post
National Geographic
Dorothea Lange
FSA – Farm Security Administration
Documented rural poor in America
Great depression in 1930s
Debate about whether this image is a true representation of the mother.
Migrant Mother
Jobless on Edge of Pea FieldImperial Valley, California
1937
J.R. Butler,President of the Southern Tenant Farmer's UnionMemphis, Tennessee1938 Dorothea Lange