History of Photography Final

John Lamprey, Chinese Male with very long plait against a Lamprey grid-profile

This image’s grid like pattern showcases the dehumanization and scientific type feel as well as the fact that he is naked.

I-Lann, Study of Lamprey’s Malayan Male I & II, 2009

This image is similar to the first one where the man is put on display as more of a specimen for scientific study rather than an individual

Santu Mofokeng, The Black Photo Album/Look at Me, 1997

these images urban black working- and middle-class families had commissioned, requested, or tacitly sanctioned without evidence of coercion with text that spurns, questions or challenges official integrationist policies taking their model from colonial officials and settlers.

Pierre-Louis Pierson, Countess Virginia Oldoini Verasis di Castiglione, albumen

silver print, 1861-67

Claude Cahun, Self-Portrait (reflected in mirror), gelatin silver print, 1928

Claude could be considered a surrealist as the surrealist movement was about going against the norms of society because they thought it was going badly and a change needed to be made to make things better but they had to go into the mind to find that. Claude played with social norms somewhat emulating that surrealist ideals

Lalla Essaydi, Les Femmes du Maroc:La Grande Odalisque, chromogenic print mounted

to aluminum, 2008

This hot graph recreates the jean Augusta painting of the reclining woman but instead she is dressed as well as written script from her diary all over herself and the space she is in. This subverts the idea of orientalism.

Felix Bonfils, Types of women from the People of Cairo, 1880.

this photo features orientalist ideas, misrepresenting eastern cultures for the European gaze often time sexualizing women but also it was just not accurate to how the buildings were or how the women would behave or how the culture was at all.

Milton Miller, A Young Chinese Man, albumen silver print, 1860-63.

this photograph is taken by a non Chinese man recreating traditional Chinese photographs but was not accurate to the Chinese traditions entirely

Lang Jingshan, Riverside Spring, gelatin silver print,

This print takes inspiration of Japanese paintings that would use blank space and emulated artistic features by using blank space as well to suggest objects.

Timothy O’Sullivan, Ancient Ruins in the Canyon de Chelle, New Mexico,

albumen silver print, 1873.

this photograph discusses manifest destiny. These pictures were used to show that native Americans were no longer there and the land was free for the taking and that Americans should expand out west.

Richard Prince, Untitled (cowboy), chromogenic print, 1989.

this photograph discusses the issues of truth in photography by using this man for the cigarette ads, sort of promoting the idea that the cigarettes would make you a strong handsome man but really they were killing people.

Yto Barrada, “Le Detroit”- Avenue d’Espagne, Tangier, 2000 (cover of our book)

This one talks about issues of freedom by emulating the essence of borders and uses a center line between individuals to show the separation by a subconscious line

Emily Jacir, Where We Come From, detail (Zina), 2001-2003.

this photo shows the city abruptly cut off by the vast ocean, something notably difficult to cross as a commentary to the issues of freedom of movement.

Zhang Dali, Dialogue series, 1995-1998

these portraits were put on buildings that were marked to be destroyed by the city bringing attention to the fact that many citizens were evicted to be able to make new buildings in place of their homes

Liu Bolin, Hiding in the City series, 2005

this photo depicts the relationship between citizens and the state/city by placing a citizen (the artist) next to an aspect of the city the promotes destroying the older buildings and building new capitalistic ones

Subhankar Banerjee, Caribou Migration 1, 2002.

these caribou showcase the Anthropocene and how humans have changed nature irreversibly with carbon emissions and that it even effects things such as caribou migration patterns since the ice is too thin

Roger Fenton, Lt. Col. Hallewell-28th Regiment- Hist Days Work Over, albumen print,

The Europeans didnt think this was was going well so they photographed staged photos of the war showing times of calm to convince the people that the war was going well.

Eugène Appert, The Massacre of the Arcueil Dominicans, May 25, albumen print,1871

this image is a staged recreation and we know this by the awkward poses the models are making when trying to create a picture that appears to be in motion

Tent Life of the 31st Penn. Infantry at Queen’s Farm, vicinity of Fort Slocum, Washington,

District of Columbia, wet-collodion glass negatives,

Those photo was notable showing how families would often follow the men that went to war as well as showcasing the black soldier who is not actually allowed to be a soldier.

Timothy O’Sullivan, A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July, 1863. Albumen

print.

George Strock, Three Americans, September 20, 1943

Art Greenspon, the first sergeant of A company, 101st Airborne division, guides a

medevac helicopter through the jungle foliage to pick up casualties suffered during a five-

day patrol near Hue.

The war photographed here was the first time photography was used within actual war sites

Diane Arbus, Transvestite at her Birthday Party, New York, 1969

Arbus would photograph individuals who were seen as different compared to other Americans and notable would photograph these individuals in their intimate spaces

Gohar Dashti, Untitled #4, from the series Today’s Life and War, 2008

she would photograph herself in mundane scenes but added aspects of war such as this tank commentating on living in an active war zone and how it becomes part of everyday life.

An-My Lê, Small Wars (Sniper 1), 1999-2002

she would go through war recreations of the war she grew up in as a different role than she would have been and took photos of the recreations

Richard Mosse, Rebel Rebel, 2011

He used infrared cameras as they were ones used during war