Photo 1 Lecture 22

New Vision in America
Henri Cartier-Bresson. Rue Mouffetard, Paris. 1958. 20th Century Photography Museum Ludwig Cologne. Taschen, Koln, 2005.	Worksheet #7 Due

Golden period of American news photography 1930s to 1950s

development of halftone printing methods in the 1930s	http://www.thetonesystem.com/images/halftone_cat_eye.gif

halftone = reprographic technique that simulates continuous tone imagery through the use of equally spaced dots of varying size.
allows for the printing of photographic image and text on the same surface with the same printing plate

Telephotography = transmission of images via telephone

Weegee
1899 - 1968

Onlookers

Weegee. Onlookers. 1936.
20th Century Photography Museum Ludwig Cologne. Taschen, Koln, 2005.

Coney Island Crowd

Weegee. Coney Island Crowd. 1940.
20th Century Photography Museum Ludwig Cologne. Taschen, Koln, 2005.

Drunks

Weegee. Drunks. c. 1940.

The Critic

Weegee. The Critic (Opening Night at the Opera). 1943.
Rosenblum, Naomi. A World History of Photography. Abbeville Press, New York. 1989.

Henri Cartier-Bresson
1908 - 2004

Henri Cartier-Bresson. Behind the Gare St. Lazare, Paris. 1932. Preble, Duane, Sarah Preble and Patrick Frank. Artforms. Seventh ed. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2002.	Decisive moment = that instant when the formal spatial relationships of the subjects reveal their essential meaning
	The moment that expresses the essence of a situation
	The instant that real life becomes artful

Madrid, Spain

Henri Cartier-Bresson. Untitled, Madrid, Spain. 1933.

"Actually, I am not at all interested in the photograph itself.
The only thing I want is to capture a fraction of a second of realtiy." - Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson. Prisoner of War Camp, Dessau, Germany. 1945.
20th Century Photography Museum Ludwig Cologne. Taschen, Koln, 2005.

In 1936, Henry Robinson Luce founded and published Life Magazine	Margaret Bourke-White. Fort Peck Dam, Montana. First issue of Life magazine, November 23, 1936. Rosenblum, Naomi. A World History of Photography. Abbeville Press, New York. 1989.

Wanted to publish new magazine that would:

Tell newsworthy stories
Promote mainstream American values
Was a pleasure to look at
Eloquently combined pictures and text

Luce's concept: "Pictures and words would be partners… The camera would act as interpreter, recording what modern industrial civilization is, how it looks, how it meshes."

Life magazine layout for the photo essay, Nurse Midwife, 1951.
http://paulturounetblog.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/life_wes-nurse.jpg

Photojournalism = particular form of journalism that creates images in order to tell a news story

Margaret Bourke-White, Chrysler Building. 1931. Preble, Duane, Sarah Preble and Patrick Frank. Artforms. Seventh ed. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2002.	Margaret Bourke-White. Chrysler Building. 1931. http://allthingsartdeco.tumblr.com/post/895664280/photo-by-margaret-bourke-white-top-of-the

Margaret Bourke-White. Self-porait. 1943.
http://www.hq.usace.army.mil/history/Marg_bourke_white_selfportrait.jpg

Margaret Bourke-White. Buchenwald. 1945.
http://www-english.tamu.edu/pers/fac/myers/buchenwald.jpg

Gandhi

Margaret Bourke-White. Mahatma Gandhi. 1946.
20th Century Photography Museum Ludwig Cologne. Taschen, Koln, 2005.

Gordon Parks
1912 -

Gordon Parks. Ella Watson (American Gothic). 1942.
Marien, Mary Warner. Photography: A Cultural History. Second edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2006.

American Gothic

Grant Wood. American Gothic. 1930.
Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History. Revised Second ed. Vol. 2. New York: Prentice Hall Inc., and Harry N. Abrams, 2005.

Gordon Parks. Ella Watson and her Grandchildren. 1942.
http://www.masters-of-photography.com/P/parks/parks_watson.html

Gordon Parks. Malcolm X. 1963.
http://www.masters-of-photography.com/P/parks/parks_x_full.html

Harold E. Edgerton
1903 -1990

Harold E. Edgerton. Milk Drop. 1936.
http://popartmachine.com/artwork/D10024-MIA_.4357C/800/Harold-E-Edgerton-Milk-Drop-Coronet-c-1936.jpg

1/1,000,000 of a second

Harold E. Edgerton. Tennis Player. 1938.
20th Century Photography Museum Ludwig Cologne. Taschen, Koln, 2005.

Stroboscopic Photography	Harold Edgerton. Card being shot. http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/photography/images/photograph/large/im00072.jpg

Replaced shutters of ordinary cameras with electrical illumination:
Camera shutter always open in completely dark room
Exposure made when quick flash exposed negative

Harold Edgerton. Apple being shot with bullet.
http://www.arco-iris.com/George/images/docs_apple.jpg

Harold Edgerton. Atomic bomb detonation near Joshua tree, 7 miles from ground zero.
http://neatorama.cachefly.net/images/2006-02/edgerton-atomic-bomb.jpg

Edgerton's Rapatronic camera


Alfred Stieglitz. Georgia O'Keefe. 1918. http://jossefordart.typepad.com/art_journeys_and_conversa/images/georgia.jpg	Alfred Stieglitz. Georgia O'Keefe. 1918.


Alfred Stieglitz. Georgia O'Keefe. 1918.	Alfred Stieglitz. Dorothy Norman. 1931.


Edward Steichen. Gloria Swanson. 1926. 20th Century Photography Museum Ludwig Cologne. Taschen, Koln, 2005.	Edward Steichen. Shoes. c. 1929.


Charles Sheeler. The Upper Deck. c. 1928. Silver print. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/2005.100.155	Charles Sheeler. The Upper Deck. 1929. Oil on canvas. http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/precisionism/

Charles Sheeler. Industry. 1932.
Marien, Mary Warner. Photography: A Cultural History. Second edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2006.