The Final Exam will be held on Tuesday, May 24 from 11:30 am to 2 pm, and will be cumulative
| Questions to
consider |
| Compare and contrast photographic approaches before and after the world wars. |
| What were Edward
Steichen's intentions for The Family of Man exhibition? |
| What three photographers emerged as the leaders of the snapshot aesthetic movement? |
| Compare and contrast
modernism with postmodernism. |
What ideas were central to Laura Mulvey’s Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema and Walter Benjamin’s The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction? How did these important essays influence postmodern photography? |
What controversies surrounded Andres Serrano’s, Robert Mapplethorpe’s and Joel Peter Witkin’s work? What did the controversies result in? |
What questions and concerns do we face in the age of digital photography? |
Styles and Movements
Be able to identify the style or movement the following works are associated
with. |
| Artwork |
Style or movement |
| Joseph Niepce.
View from His Window at Le Gras. c. 1826 - 27. |
First photographic
image |
| Louis Jacques
Mande Daguerre. Le Boulevard Du Temple. c. 1838. |
Daguerreotype |
| William Henry Fox Talbot. The Open Door. 1843. |
Calotype |
| J. Zealey. Jack. 1847. |
Daguerreotype |
| Henri Le Secq. Cathedral at Laon, France. 1851. |
Missions Heliographiques |
| Roger Fenton. The Valley of the Shadow of Death. 1855. |
Documentary |
| Oscar G. Rejlander.
Two Ways of Life. 1857. |
Combination print |
| Henry Peach Robinson. Fading Away. 1858. |
Combination print |
| Carleton E.
Watkins. Mt. Broderick. c. 1861. |
Mechanical
photography |
| Francis Frith.
The Sphinx and the Great Pyramid Geezah. c. 1862. |
Mechanical photography |
Matthew Brady Studio. Abraham Lincoln. c. 1863. |
Carte-de-visite |
| Alexander Gardner. Home of the Rebel Sharpshooter. 1863. |
Documentary |
| Julia Margaret Cameron. Sappho. c. 1866. |
Art photography |
| Eadweard Muybridge.
Galloping Horse. 1878. |
Scientific photography |
| Gertrude Kasebier.
Portrait of Miss N.. c. 1902. |
Pictorialism |
| Jacques-Henri
Lartigue. My Hydro-glider with Propeller. 1904. |
Snapshot |
| Edward Steichen.
Moonlight: The Pond. 1906. |
Pictorialism |
| Alfred Stieglitz. The Steerage. 1907. |
Straight photography |
| Paul Strand.
Wall Street. 1916. |
New Vision |
| Hannah Hoch. Cut with a Kitchen Knife. 1919. |
Dadaism |
| Aleksander
Rodchenko. Woman at the Telephone. 1928. |
New Vision |
| Edward Weston.
Pepper #30. 1930. |
Group f/64 |
| Ansel Adams. Valley View, Yosemite. c. 1933. |
Group f/64 |
| Hans Bellmer.
The Doll. c. 1934. |
Surrealism |
| Dorothea Lange. Migrant Mother. 1936. |
Documentary / FSA |
| Henri Cartier-Bresson. Prisoner of War Camp. 1945. |
Decisive moment |
| Robert Frank.
Trolley- New Orleans. 1955-56. |
Post-war Documentary |
| Richard Hamilton.
Just What Is It that Makes Today's Homes So Different,So Appealing? 1956. |
Pop Art |
| William Eggleston. Huntsville, AL (Man in a Motel Room). c. 1969-70. |
Color photography |
| Diane Arbus.
Child with a toy hand grenade. 1970. |
Snapshot Aesthetic |
| Larry Clark.
Tulsa. 1971. |
Documentary |
| Cindy Sherman.
Untitled Film Still #6. 1979. |
Postmodernism/ Identity Politics |
| Sherrie Levine. After Walker Evans #4. 1981. |
Postmodernism/ Appropriation |
| Andres Serrano.
Piss Christ. 1987. |
Postmodernism/ Body Politics |
| Sally Mann. Candy Cigarette. 1989. |
Postmodernism/ Identity Politics |
| Jeff Wall. A Sudden Gust of Wind (After Hokusai). 1993. |
Postmodern Fabrication |
| Catherin Opie. Oliver in a Tutu. 2004. |
Postmodernism/ Identity Politics |
| Ken Gonzalez Day. Erased Lynching. 2005. |
Post-Photography |
