Social Landscape

Lee Friedlander. Baltimore. 1968.
http://www.sfmoma.org/explore/collection/artwork/112278#

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lee Friedlander.  Florida (with sexy eyes).  1963.
http://www.likeyou.com/files/fullimages/lee_friedlander_kmlu_08.jpg
Snapshot Aesthetic = an apparently uncomposed everyday subject that is photographed in a way that mimics instantaneous sight
 
Three shows coined the phrase and defined the trend:
Twelve Photographers of the American Social Landscape
at Brandeis University in 1966
Toward a Social Landscape
at George Eastman House in 1966
New Documents show
at MOMA in 1967

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Garry Winogrand.  Part of All Women Are Beautiful series.  1964.

Characteristics of snapshot aesthetic:
Casual
Use of available light only
Deliberately imperfect
Detached and impersonal approach
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lee Friedlander
1934 -

 

Lee Friedlander. New York. 1963.
http://jophilippe.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/friedlander_revolving_door.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lee Friedlander. New York City . 1965.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lee Friedlander. New Orleans. 1968.
Marien, Mary Warner.  Photography: A Cultural History.  Second edition.  Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2006.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lee Friedlander. Nude (Madonna). 1979.(published in Playboy magazine 1985)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Social Landscape strategies:

Garry Winogrand. World's Fair, New York. 1964.
http://www.masters-of-photography.com/images/full/winogrand/winogrand_worlds_fair.jpg
Catch subjects unaware
No previsualization
Tilted framing
 
"I photograph to find out what the world looks like photographed." - Garry Winogrand
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New York City

Garry Winogrand. Central Park Zoon, New York City. 1967.
Advertisement from Art in America, February 2002.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Diane Arbus
1923 - 1971

 

Diane Arbus. Puerto Rican Woman with beauty mark. 1965.
Rubinfien, Leo. "Where Diane Arbus Went." Art in America. October, 2005. 65 - 77.

 

"A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know" - Diane Arbus

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Diane Arbus. Teenage couple on Hudson Street. 1963.
Rubinfien, Leo. "Where Diane Arbus Went." Art in America. October, 2005. 65 - 77.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Diane Arbus. Identical Twins. 1966.
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.
Rubinfien, Leo. "Where Diane Arbus Went." Art in America. October, 2005. 65 - 77.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and the unusual natural:

 

Diane Arbus. A family one evening in a nudist camp. 1965.
http://2photo.org/wp-content/gallery/diane-arbus/nudist.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Diane Arbus. Child with a Toy Hand Grenade. 1970.
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