Thursday 29 March 2012

Genius of Photography Part 2

1)Typologies are pictures which represent nothing but the truth and depict things or people as they are in a documentary fashion.
2)The face of the times is a series of photographs taken by August Sander at the time of economic and social unease in Germany in the 1920's. It depicted people in different walks of life as portraits.
3)Rodchenko designed for the USSR in Construction magazine which through propaganda glorified the soviet union.
4)Photomontage is a graphical art of using photography to create re worked, abstracted images through cutting and pasting.
5)Atget used albumen prints because he did not grasp modern techniques being used elsewhere.
6)solarization is the reversal of the negative giving areas which would otherwise be black an extreme finish which can appear unlife like.
7)Bernice Abbott acquired Atget's estate and helped to spread his images of Paris and his unusual way of seeing.
8)Walker Evans was fired fromthe FSA probably for similar reasons to W.Eugene Smith. He could not help but personalize his experience ratyher than portrying the propaganda expected from him.

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