April 28
New Takes
Snapshot Aesthetic (a.k.a. Social Landscape) = an apparently uncomposed everyday subject that is photographed in a way that mimics instantaneous sight |
Garry Winogrand. Part of All Women Are Beautiful series1964. |
Characteristics of snapshot aesthetic: |
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Casual |
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Use of available light only |
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Deliberately imperfect |
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Detached and impersonal approach |
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Lee Friedlander
1934 -
Lee Friedlander. Philadelphia. 1965.
E.J. Bellocq. Storeyville Portrait; Untitled, Plate 27 (Reclining Nude with a Mask). c. 1912.
Lee Friedlander. New Orleans .
1968.
Marien, Mary Warner. Photography: A Cultural History. Second edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2006.
Lee Friedlander. New York City . 1965.
Garry Winogrand
1928 - 1984
"I
photograph to find out what the world looks like photographed."
- Garry Winogrand |
Garry Winogrand. New York. 1950s.
Rubinstein.
Raphael. "Snap Judgments: Exploring the Winogrand Archive." Art
in America. February, 2002. 46 -51.
Garry Winogrand's
Social Landscape strategies: |
Garry Winogrand. World's Fair, New York. 1964. |
Catch subjects
unaware |
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No previsualization |
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Tilted framing |
Gary Winogrand. New York. c. 1961.
Rubinstein.
Raphael. "Snap Judgments: Exploring the Winogrand Archive." Art
in America. February, 2002. 46 -51.
Garry
Winogrand. New York City. 1967.
Advertisement
from Art in America, February 2002.
Diane Arbus
1923 - 1971
"A
photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less
you know" - Diane Arbus |
Diane Arbus. Puerto Rican Woman
with beauty mark. 1965.
Rubinfien,
Leo. "Where Diane Arbus Went." Art in America. October, 2005.
65 - 77.
Diane Arbus. Teenage couple
on Hudson Street. 1963.
Rubinfien,
Leo. "Where Diane Arbus Went." Art in America. October, 2005.
65 - 77.
Diane Arbus made the ordinary bizarre:
Diane Arbus. A young Brooklyn family
going on a Sunday outing. 1966.
http://www.studio-international.co.uk/studio-images/arbus/82364761_b.jpg
and the unusual natural:
Diane Arbus. A family one evening
in a nudist camp. 1965.
http://www.masters-of-photography.com/images/full/arbus/arbus_nudist.jpg
Diane Arbus. A young man in curlers
at home on West 20th Street. 1966.
Rubinfien,
Leo. "Where Diane Arbus Went." Art in America. October, 2005.
65 - 77.
Diane Arbus. Female Impersonators' Dressing Room.
http://www.cheimread.com/files/4a38c849.jpg
Diane Arbus. Identical Twins. 1966.
Rubinfien,
Leo. "Where Diane Arbus Went." Art in America. October, 2005.
65 - 77.
Washington Post article on the twins
Diane Arbus. Child
with a Toy Hand Grenade. 1970.
Rubinfien,
Leo. "Where Diane Arbus Went." Art in America. October, 2005.
65 - 77.
Diane Arbus. Untitled
(7). 1970-71.
Rubinfien,
Leo. "Where Diane Arbus Went." Art in America. October, 2005.
65 - 77.
Diane Arbus. Masked Woman in Wheel Chair. 1970. |
"Humanity
is not one." - Susan Sontag |
Nicole Kidman as Diane Arbus in Fur:An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
http://i.imdb.com/Photos/Ss/0422295/DF03198Rcolor.jpg
Edward Ruscha. Amarillo, TX, from Twenty-Six Gasoline Stations. 1962. |
Post-Structuralism = philosophical approach based on the idea that words and photographs are unstable and cannot be trusted, and that everything is a momentary construction with no ultimate meaning or truth. |
"From 1945 to 1975 victory culture ended in America" - Tom Englehardt |
Alberto Korda. Che Guevarra. 1960.
http://images-cdn01.associatedcontent.com/image/A1706/170666/300_170666.gif
Eddie Adams. Saigon. 1968.
“In taking this picture, I had destroyed his [the South Vietnamese general’s] life. For General Loan had become a man condemned both in his country and in America because he had killed an enemy in war. People do this all the time in war, but rarely is a photographer there to record the act.” - Eddie Adams |
John Paul Filo. Untitled (Kent State: girl screaming over dead body). 1970.
Marien, Mary Warner. Photography: A Cultural History. Second edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2006.
Huynh Cong (Nick) Ut. Children Fleeing a Napalm Strike. 1972.
Marien, Mary Warner. Photography: A Cultural History. Second edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2006.
Nick Ut and Kim Phuc meet Queen Elizabeth II. 2000.
http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0008/Exported%20GIF/NG53b.jpg
Larry Clark
1943 -
Larry Clark. Tulsa. 1971. |
"i
was born in Tulsa Oklahoma in 1943. when i was sixteen i started shooting
amphetamine. i shot with my friends everyday for three years and then
left town but I've gone back through the years. once the needle goes
in it never comes out." - Larry Clark |
Larry Clark. Tulsa.
1971.
Clark, Larry. Tulsa. New York: Grove Press, 1971.
Larry Clark. Tulsa.
1971.
Clark, Larry. Tulsa. New York: Grove Press, 1971.
Larry Clark. Tulsa.
1971.
Clark, Larry. Tulsa. New York: Grove Press, 1971.
Larry Clark. Tulsa.
1971.
Clark, Larry. Tulsa. New York: Grove Press, 1971.
“It’s like, I call myself a moralist and my friends
fall down laughing. But it’s true! Look at the work—everyone
always comments on the photo in Tulsa of a pregnant girl shooting up,
like it’s exploitative. Look at the next photo! It’s a funeral.
Of a dead baby. I’m always trying to get at the consequences of
actions. And if it’s titillating? Well, sometimes I’m dealing
with good-looking people having sex, sure, but that’s not the point.
The point is the consequences.” - Larry Clark
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Larry Clark. Assorted scenes from Kids. 1996.
Riemshcneider, Burkhard and Uta Grosenick ed.
Art at the Turn of the Millennium. Koln: Taschen, 199.
