Straight Photography
Marcel Duchamp. L.H.O.O.Q. 1919.
Elger, Dietmar. Dadaism. Koln: Taschen, 2004.
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Straight Photography |
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Marcel Duchamp. L.H.O.O.Q. 1919. |
Reminder! Quiz #3 must be completed by this evening. No extensions will be granted. |
Clarence H. White. Ring Toss. 1903. |
The 291 (a.k.a. The Little Galleries of the Photo Seccesion) 1905 - 1917 |
1910 Stieglitz organizes the last show of Pictorialist work for the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo, New York |
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Constantin
Brancusi. |
Avant-garde
= artists or works that are novel or experimental |
relates to military
term for soldiers who explore battlefield ahead of advancing army |
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suggests
small group of intellectuals who push the boundaries of what is accepted as the norm |
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Pablo Picasso. Les Demoiselles D'Avignon. 1907.
Stokstad,
Marilyn. Art History. Revised Second ed. Vol. 2. New York: Prentice
Hall Inc., and Harry N. Abrams Inc., 2005.
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Edmond Fortier.
Type of Women, West Africa. 1906. |
Pablo
Picasso. Les Demoiselles D'Avignon. 1907. Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History. Revised Second ed. Vol. 2. New York: Prentice Hall Inc., and Harry N. Abrams Inc., 2005. |
Alfred Stieglitz. The Steerage.
1907.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stieglitz-Steerage291.jpg
"I saw shapes related to one another - a picture of shapes, and underlying it, a new vision that held me." - Stieglitz |
Straight
Photography = approach that attempts to depict a scene as realistically
and objectively as permitted by the medium. Condemned the use of both
pre-exposure (e.g., filters, lens coatings, soft focus) and post-exposure
(e.g., unusual developing and printing methods) manipulation
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Alfred Stieglitz. Winter on Fifth Avenue. 1892. |
Alfred Stieglitz. The Steerage. 1907. |
Pictorialism |
Straight
Photography |
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Focus |
Main subject in
focus, everything else fuzzy |
Entire photo
in sharp focus |
Manipulation |
Encouraged dark
room and hand altering of image |
No manipulation |
Tone |
Almost monochromatic
gray |
Deep contrast
and full range of tones |
Subject |
Sentimental, nostalgic
and sometimes fantastic |
Composition
and form |
Surface |
Printed on art
papers |
Printed on glossy,
waxed paper |
Overall
goal |
To make photos
look like paintings |
To make photos
look like photos |
Alfred Stieglitz. Hands. 1918.
"This
photographer is working in the same spirit as I am." - Pablo Picasso
in response to the Steerage |
Aleksander Rodchenko. Portrait
of My Mother. 1924. |
Formalism
= the concept that a work's artistic value is entirely determined by
its form--the way it is made, its purely visual aspects and its medium.
Formalism emphasizes compositional elements such as color, line, shape
and texture rather than realism, context and content |
Alvin Coburn. The Octopus.
1912.
http://www.lalettredelaphotographie.com/fullscreen/831#10
Armory Show Main Hall
http://www.usc.edu/schools/annenberg/asc/projects/comm544/library/images/415.html
Marcel
Duchamp. Nude Descending A Staircase, No. 2. 1912. |
The Armory Show 1913 |
First large-scale exhibition of radical modern European art |
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Responses to the Armory Show and Duchamp's Nude: |
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President Theodore Roosevelt exclaimed, "That's not art!" |
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New York Times critic said Duchamp's painting resembled "an explosion in a shingle factory." |
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American Art News offered a prize to anyone who could find the nude |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Stamp-ctc-armory-show.jpg |
Etienne-Jules Marey.
Man in Black Suit with White Stripes Down Arms and Legs, Walking in Front
of a Black Wall. c. 1884.
Janson,
H.W. and Anthony F. Janson. History of Art. Sixth ed. Vol. 2. University of
North Carolina; Prentice Hall inc., 2001. 2 vols.
Marcel Duchamp. Fountain. 1917.
Stokstad,
Marilyn. Art History. Revised Second ed. Vol. 2. New York: Prentice
Hall Inc., and Harry N. Abrams Inc., 2005.
