Art 470: Final Exam Flash Cards (all photos)

Harry Callahan Weed Against the Sky, Detroit 1948 (Gelatin Silver Print)

Could signify female genitalia

No interest in selling or publishing his workAbstract, metaphor, quintissential

Richard Avedon Dovima and the Elephats, Paris 1955 (Silver gelatin print)

Beauty and the beast, commanding the universe. Fashion photography

The King and Que

W. Eugene Smith Photo essay in LIFE magazine: Nurse Midwife, Maude Cullen eases the pain of birth, life and death Published December 3, 1951

Family of Man exhibition installation 1955 curated by Edward Steichen installed first at the MOMA NYC

Innovation in image reproductions, displayed in overlapping patterns sculptural armorments, metaphor of a world of connected images. Best selling book along with it, thesis of symbolic cohesiveness traveled 30 years to 60 countries

Robert Frank Hoover Dam, Nevade 1955 (Gelatin Silver print)

Simple photos, but speak volumesQuick mind to describe a place in one image

Robert Frank Trolley Car, New Orleans 1955 (Gelatin silver print)

Made photos more critical and less optimistic, broke away to do his own thing to make a book called "the americans" that is all pictures no wordsSwoop into a place and find one picture, one event that opitimizes it. Poetic photos, not poetic titles

Minor White Moencopi Strata, Capital Reed, Utah 1962 (Gelatin silver print)

Little fragments of the world, no idea of scale, Pictures are introsepctive, not objective. Not about where it is but about what the picture brings to you, mata physical dialogue, spiritual photography, follow eastern mysticism

Andy Warhol Red Elvis 1962 (Acrylic Silkscreen)

Stolen materials, repeated bringing them back into the high art cultureRepeats til it is almost distorted, blocked and smudged

Diane Arbus Child with Toy Hand Grenade in Central Park, NYC 1962 (Gelatin silver print)

Shoots slightly upward from belly button, subject often gives honesty, talks to them while looking down through camera

Dr. Harold Edgerton Apple Shot with a Bullet Traveling at 900 Meters per second, (illuminated by high speed stroboscopic flash) 1964

Chromogenic Development print

science section of life magazine

James Karales Marchers, Selma to Montgomery Alabama 1965 (Gelatin silver print)

Simple choices, changing angle and lens splays the scene out, moving forward, Simple but powerful, documentary fashion but evocative

Ray Metzker Philadelphia 1966 (Gelatin silver print)

Andy Warhol Orange Car Crash 1964 (photo-silkscreen)

Fourteen Times

produces the topic of death in a grid-like manner, intentionally more and more distorted with each stamp

Ed Rusha Every Building on the Sunset Strip 1966

Accordion fold book (lithograph of two strips of images), 8 inches by 7 foot

Danny Lyons Main Corridor (from Conversations with the Dead) 1969-71 (Gelatin silver print)

depicts lyons photographic record from within six Texas prisons and the relationships he then formed with the inmates

Unknown student art collective For All Time offset poster, 1970

Photographer: Ron L. Haeberle Q. And Babies? A. And Babies

Artists Poster Committee of Art Workers Coalition (Frazier Dougherty, Jon Hendricks and Irving Petlin) 1970 (Offset Poster)

Lithographic poster, Brought light to the gruesome and horrid aspects of the war that were being pushed down and suppressed by the government trying to disillusion the public

Diane Arbus The King and Queen of a Seniors' Dance, New York City, NY 1970 (gelatin silver print)

Harsh flash, makes a more charactery silly photograph, Odd subjects but stable square frame

Duane Michaels Things are Queer nine 1973 ( nine gelatin silver prints)

plays with the viewers perception of scale, signature silhouette in a doorway

John Pfahl Australian Pines, Fort de Soto, Florida 1977 (Dye transfer print)

Interrupt recessional space with tin foil on trees, without harming the natural landscape, playing with the single-point perspective of a camera

Adrian Piper Pale Face (political self portrait #2),

(Offset text and negative/positive images), June 1978

Text is very important to her, race as a trope of perception, light skinned african american woman always being misidentified, as a middle position not recognized by either group as what she is

Susan Meisalas Boys throwing grenades (from Nicaragua) 1978

(Chromogenic development print)

One of the first to photograph documentary in color, was sent on location to document the guerilla war for 13 months in nicaragua, most non-heroic and utterly genuine human side of war. Published a book with her photos

Jim Goldberg Untitled - Regina and Edgar Goldstine (from the rich and the poor) circa 1980

(Gelatin silver print with handwritten text by the sitters)

Benign photos, receive their power from the text, engaging his sitters twice, honest experiences, ironic or very deep

Nan Goldin Heart Shaped Bruise, NYC , (from The Ballad of Sexual Dependency) 1980

(chromogenic development print)

documents the results of numerous abusive relationships held by Goldin

Joel Peter Witkin The expulsion from paradise of Adam and Eve 1980

(Toned gelatin silver print )

Extremely highly staged, models with elaborate costumes and props, usually describing old stories, mythology etc. purposely looks old. Old dream/new nightmare, disarms the grotesqueness-- countertension

Sandy Skoglund Germs are Everywhere 1984 (Cibachrome Print)

Creates a sickly feeling through the repetition of green

Nancy Burson Big Brother (Stalin, Mussolini, Mao, Hitler, Khomeini) 1983 (gelatin silver print )

Combined digitally the faces of Stalin, Mussolini, Mao, Hitler, Khomeini to create one super dictator, Three Major Dictators

Krzystof Wodiczko Memorial Hall, Dayton, Ohio 1983

(documentation of installation of photo projections on public architecture)

stimulated a dialogue on tragedy, humanity and the culture of war in contemporary society

Cindy Sherman Untitled #180 (michael jackson face) 1987

(cibachrome print)

used stage makeup, masks and all that jazz to create these horrific images depicting distorted celebrities

Andres Serrano Piss Christ 1987 (dye destruction print)

Yasumasa Morimura Portrait (twin) 1988

(four chromogenic development print)

she recreated old paintings as photos replacing himself as the subjects, here he photographed himself as two different characters, the frame split into 4 parts

Barbara Kruger Untitled circa 1982 (postcard)

feminism and consumerism

Barbara Kruger Untitled 1982 (gelatin silver print with red frame)

feminism and consumerism

Chistian Boltanski installation concept for an ongoing series Lessons in Darkness, 1978-present

David Wojnarowicz Untitled (Hujar Dead) 1988-89

(acrylic photo-silkscreen over collage on masonite 39" x 32" )

surrounding the aids epidemic

Oliver Toscani, Campaign Director (Original Photo by Therese Fare) Benetton clothing advertising campaign image, 1992

(Produced as magazine pages and billboards)

Dinh Q. Le Between, 1994

(three chromogenic development prints woven and taped together)

Michiko Kon Dress of Peas 1994 (gelatin silver print)

pea pods, each opened to reveal the tender treasure within, a poignant eulogy to a lost innocence. A tutu is given a second layer of fine fish bones threaded with hypodermic needles, lending a threatening undercurrent of destruction, both personal and environmental.

Judith Golden Barbara Streisand (From self portrait/Fantasy Series) (Chromogenic development print with oil paint and pastels) 1976-78

To critique the media, dealing with social masquerade, illusion of fame, suggesting how clownish we are in idolizing these average and superficial humans

Sally Mann Untitled (from Sweet Silent Thought) circa 1982-86

(platinum print)

shows the struggle of growing up and the loss of innocence

Pat Ward Williams 32 hours in a box... still counting (the story of Henry Box Brown) 1987

mixed media sculpture (approx 8x8x8)

the celebrated American fugitive slave who put himself into a box and mailed himself to Philadelphia, a trip that lasted 27 hours, to escape slavery

Mary Ellen Mark The Damm Family in their car, Los Angeles .1987

(gelatin silver print)

Life magazine, homeless family who lived in their car, readers ended up sending them a lot of money in order to buy an apartment and clothes and everything

Annie Leibovitz Ivanna and Donald Trump, Plaza Hotel, NYC 1988

(cibachrome print)

Felix Gonzalez-Torres Untitled (one week in America, deaths from handguns, May 1-7, 1989) 1990

(Stack of free, offset printed posters)

A mix between a sculpture and photography, images and stories of each re appropriated from time magazine

Patricia Piccinini Protein Lattice (Red Portrait) 1996

(chromogenic development print)

imagines a science-fiction future of manufactured body parts, produced for cosmetic enhancement

Guerrilla Girls, Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?, 1998 (photo lithograph poster pasted around NYC 11x28" each )

protest of the lack of female artists displayed in the met while they displayed many images of women, mostly nude

Robbert Flick Between Doheny and Third Ave, Los Angeles 1999

(digital images on Ilfachrome paper, mounted on Sinta board 38" x 66" )

basically a grid of a panoramic