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Adams, Valley View, Yosemite National Park, California, 1933

Wanted full color range to be shown even though the photo is in black and white

Arbus, Boy holding a hand grenade, Central Park, 1910

TLR Rolleiflex 6x6. Vietnam war winding down. Toy grenade. War is “fun.” soldier. Idea is pushed for boys. He makes a face and curls his fist because he is irritated that she is taking a long time. Parts of war being normalized. Toy guns. Toxic masculinity.

Bellmer, Doll, 1935

Born in poland. Mannequin parts. Paints them. Familiar with nazi propaganda. He creates anti idealized bodies.

Boltanski,Monuments (The Children of Dijon), 1985

Memorial, loss of childrens lifes. Not images of the specific children, but general children. Boltanski is jewish and hid under the floorboards with his father when he was young to avoid being sent to a concentration camp, denies that being related to his works.

Bragaglia brothers, Typist, 1911

Ghostly looking hands typing, long shutter speed

Cartier-Bresson, Behind the Gare St. Lazare, 1932

Decisive moment, influenced by surrealist theories of the unconscious spontaneous expression and intuition. Waited for someone to come and do this action. 

Clark, Tulsa portfolio, 1972

Teenage drug culture, photos of his friends. Gun sho twound in his leg. Laying down, pants down, girl? Crying? Besides him. Dude in pain. Young people, violence, drugs.

Dijkstra, Tiergarten, Berlin, 2000

Between childhood and adulthood, awkward, lanky. Barefoot, looks unsure. Running in the woods like a boy but starting to look more like an adult

Duchamp, L.H.O.O.Q., 1919

French dada. Postcard that he wrote letters on and drew a mustache and goatee on. Picks on the masterpiece. Mona lisa. Reproduction. “A hot ass” when pronounced in French. 

Evans, Allie Mae Burroughs, Hale County, Alabama, 1936

In real life their last name is grudger. Hard times. Aging prematurely. Strength against offs. Reading it as an entire kind of people instead of as an individual.

Frank, Drug Store, Detroit (From the book the Americans), 1955

Friedlander, New Orleans, 1968

Reflections. Let the viewer complete the narrative. What are the people waiting for? What parts are inside vs outside? Small prints, have to stand close, intimate. A glace, memory, moment.

Goldin, Nan and Brian in Bed, 1983

They are in a relationship, he beats her, camera in corner of her room set to go off day and night

Gursky, Bundestag, Bonn, 1998

House of congress in germany. Digitally altered. Glass reflection is copy, pasted, flipped. Old people working in government.

Hamilton, Just what is it that makes todays homes so different, so appealing?, 1958

Pop art, collage. Consumption. Advertising. New tech. Pics cut out of magazines. Idealized people/bodies. Gender roles. Sexual references. Ford and vehicles. 

Hine. Child in a carolina cotton mill, 1908

Young children, too young to work, dangerous work, snuck in to take these photos

Hoch, Cut with the kitchen knife dada through the last weimar beer belly cultural epoch of germany,1919

James Van der zee, couple in raccoon coats, 1932

New rise of middle class, around great depression time. Wealth. Would inspire the great migration north.

Lange, Migrant mother, 1936

Worry, struggles, unknown fate. Caption about her was untrue. Led to aid in the area.

Lartigue, My cousin Bichonnade, 1905

11 year old photographer. French. Made the mundane magical. “Supernatural” photos. Fast shutter speed.

Lissitzsky, The constructor, 1924

Making and vision combined. Embracing new tech. Compass, graph paper, photography. Art, science, and math came together. Self portrait. Russian construcivism. Speaking to western audience.

Man ray, untitled from “minotaure,” 1936

Surrealism. Man’s upper torso transforming into head of a bull. Cover of magazine. Myth of minotaur. Can be both a man and a bull.

Marey, Joinville soldier walking, 1883

The original view, looks how the negative does, chrono (time) photography.

Model, albert-alberta, huberts 42nd street flea circus, new york, 1945

Edge of society

Morimura, self portrait as marilyn monroe, 1996

Japanese man wearing fake breasts, wig, makeup. Doesn't convincingly become. An outsider in western culture

Muybridge, untitled (sequence photographs of the trot and gallop), 1878

1/1000 of a second. Muybridge had a traumatic brain injury from falling off a cliff. Killed wifes boyfriend.

Parks, Ella Watson, 1942

Also referred to as american gothic

She mopped the floors. Segregation. American dream not true for all.

Prince, untitled (cowboys), 1993

A photo of a malboro ad, cropped. Ethics of taking a photo of someone elses work.

Riis, Bandits’ roost, new york, 1888

Shows dangerous parts of life. Using new flash tech. Spark public awareness

Rosier, The bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems, 1974-5

They cannot exist without the other, need both caption and picture

Sanders, boxers, 1929

Later, nazis confiscated and destroyed the printing plates an dnegatives. He was making a book called face of our time showing the faces of germany as diverse.

Sherman, untitled film still, 1978

Feminism, creating plots like it is a movie, dressing up, new york, socialization

Shonibare, diary of a victorian dandy 1998

African born british man. Entertainment salon. Surrounded by white people

Siskind, jerome, ariz, 1949

Steichen, the family of man exhibition, 1955

The museum of modern art (MoMA). Ww2 had just ended. A lot happening around the world. World needs to come together. Photography and fine art. Romanticization.

Stieglitz, steerage, 1907

With his wife and daughter on a boat to paris. He felt out of place with the upper class. His focus is on the man in a straw hat. Shapes created in photo. Ran to get his camera to take this. Not about immigration according to him.

Strand, photograph - New York (woman with sign that reads ‘blind’), 1917

Was taken with a hidden camera, you behave differently when you are being watched. othering?

Strand, Abstractions, porch shadows, 1915

Sugimoto, aegean sea, 1990

White to black gradient. Opens shutter. Long exposure. All motion of the sea becomes a blur. Passage of time.

Wall, dead troops talk, 1991-2

Actors dressed up as troops from afghanistan. Imagine what if. The scene we would never be able to see. Posed and photoshopped.

Warhol, marilyn diptych, 1962

Silkscreen, pop. layers. Stencil process. Idealized woman. Fashion. Diva. hollywood. Killed herself. Diptychs are typically religious.

Weegee, Their first murder, 1942

Reacting to a gambler killed in the street. Strange reactions. Ouija board is what he is named after. Took photos in areas police couldnt

White, empty head (from sequence 14 of sound of one hand clapping) 1962

Winogrand, American legion convention, dallas texas, 1964

Vietnam soldiers. Smoke break. Ignoring man in military uniform who is on the ground