PHOTOGRAPHY HISTORY

Pictorialism definition? 1890-1940

Raising photography to the level of fine art. Expressive rather a narrative. Subjective rather than objective.

• used soft focus techniques, dramatic lighting/contrast to create an emotional effect

Photo-Secession Group 1901?

Advancement of photography as a fine art and define photography’s position in art. promote the works of members through exhibition at 291, also promoting through publication Camera Work

291 Gallery, Camera Work, Photo-Secession

• Repeating forms and shapes, exploration of the compositional properties NOT a narrative.

• working with shapes and parallelism with cubism

• how shapes form a harmony

Pictorialsim

Celebration of the american skyscraper, innovation

Pictorialism

emphasizes manipulation during the image processing process

Documentary photography?

• Using the photograph as a medium of evidence

• highlight a social issue to change the world

• highlighting something that has never been highlighted before

Social Documentary Photography

• Highlithing poiverty issues

• how the poverty part of society is living

• showing poverty in the housing crisis and overcrowinding

• illegally seelling spaces in a home to live in beyond the legal capacity

• child labor

• the realities of the workforce, extremely dangerous

F.S.A Photoigraphs 1935-1943

• Farm Security Administration

• where aid should go during the great depression throughoyut the WHOLE united states

• pulling on heartstrings to achieve this

• creativing narrivites / little stories

Photojournalism

• staged image 

• the dustbowl": farms, due to mass drought, the topsoil becomes shifted into the air causing these storms

• farmland becomes no longer viable to use

F.S.A

• sign of progress

• an aftershot of a location after aid

• despite troublesome times, people are able to trancend this times

• live still moves on

Photojournalism

• standing for the period of time (great depression / dust bowl)

Modern Art 1860-1970s

• trying to break from the social norm / normality

Dada: 19 century INTERNATIONAL art move which questioned and even mocked social and sartisitic norms and emphaziedd the illogical and absurd

Russian constructivism

• shift in how the artist should be seen

• artist: designer 

• new shift in perspectives and seeing things in a more abstract lense

Photogram

• lightroom practice

• very experimental practice

Modern Currents in Mexico

• art influenced by the Mexican Revolution of 1910

• modern renaissance: period from the 1920s-1940s when government sponsored civic art projects flourished

• how does the art connect to the moment in time before Columbus