Robert Capa

Title: Loyalist Militiaman at the Moment of Death
Artist: Robert Capa
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Year: September 5, 1936

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Robert Capa covered 5 different wars: the Spanish Civil War, the 2nd Sino-Japanese War, World War II across Europe, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and the 1st Indochina War. He documented the course of World War II in London, North Africa, Italy, the Battle of Normandy on Omaha Beach and the liberation of Paris. His action photographs, such as those taken during the 1944 Normandy invasion, portray the violence of war with unique impact.


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In my opinion Robert was a very brave man, it takes a lot to go to various wars and photograph soldiers in action killing each other. In 1936, he became known all over the world for a photo (known as the "Falling Soldier" photo) long falsely presumed to have been taken in Cerro Muriano of a Militiaman who had just been shot and was in the process of falling to his death. There has been controversy about the authenticity of this photograph. A Spanish historian identified the dead soldier as Federico Borrell García, from Alcoi (Alicante). This identification has been disputed. In 2003, the Spanish newspaper El Periodico claimed the photo was taken near the town of Espejo, 10 km from Cerro Muriano, and that the photo was staged. In 2009, a Spanish professor published a book titled Shadows of Photography, in which he showed that the photograph could not have been taken where, when, or how Capa and his backers have alleged. Many of Capa's photographs of the Spanish Civil War dubbed the "Mexican suitcase" were, for many decades, presumed lost, but surfaced in Mexico City in the late 1990s. Ownership of the collection was transferred to the Capa Estate, and in December 2007 was moved to the International Center of Photography, a museum founded by Capa's younger brother (who was also a photographer) Cornell in Manhattan.



Name (please only include if it is ok to publish on blog): Rachel Desalegne

NOTE: All of this is from Wikipedia.org (I don't want to get in trouble for plagiarism)

Dorthea Lange

Artist: Dorothea Lange

Medium: Unknown

Year: Unknown



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Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) has been called the greatest American documentary photographer. She is best known for her chronicles of the Great Depression and for her photographs of migratory farm workers. Dorothea Lange was a natural photographer in the truest sense because she lived, in her words, "a visual life." She could look at something: a line of laundry flapping in the wind, a pair of old, wrinkled, work-worn hands, a bread-line, a crowd of people in a bus station, and find it beautiful. Her eye was a camera lens and her camera--as she put it--an "appendage of the body."



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I think that it is interesting that she could look at basically anything and think it's beautiful! To me that is that something that a photographer needs because you need to have an eye for things. I love that she always said that the camera was an appendage of her body.





Name (please only include if it is ok to publish on blog):Katlin

Minor White

Title: Pacific Devils Side

Artist: Minor White

Medium: unknown

Year: 1947



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Minor White was born in Minneapolis Minnesota in 1908. He was an American photographer, educator, poet and a critic. He was recognized for this intense commitment of photography and his vision. Minor White was a textural photographer. Textural photographs are pictures of items such as a bush, a tree, cracks in the road, or even a rusted up car.





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I think that it is interesting that Minor White was born right here in Minnesota. I like that he was a textural photographer and that he liked taking picture and did take pictures of items like a bush, a tree, cracks in the road, and rusted cars. I think that is interesting because you wouldn't think of taking pictures of that.

Alec Soth

Title: USA/CANADA. 2005. Falls 02.

Artist: Alec Soth

Medium:

Year:2005



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Alec Soth is an American photographer. His photography has a cinematic feel with elements of folklore that hint at a story behind the image. He has received fellowships from the McKnight and Jerome Foundations and was the recipient of the 2003 Santa Fe Prize for Photography. His photographs are in major public and private collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and the Walker Art Center

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Alec Soth is an amazing photographer. The way he captured the water fall is very beautiful. The picture is so calming and relaxing to look at. It such an interesting angle the picture is taking at.





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Jerry Uelsmann

Title: Small Woods Where I Met Myself

Artist: Jerry Uelsmann

Medium:

Year:1967



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Is an American photographer. When he was in high school, his interest in photography sparked. He originally believed that using a camera could allow him to exist outside of himself, to live in a world captured through the lens. Despite poor grades, he managed to land a few jobs, primarily shooting weddings. Jerry Uelsmann dropped out of Indiana University. He began teaching photography at the University of Florida in 1960. In 1967, Uelsmann had a solo exhibit at The Museum of Modern Art which opened doors for his photography career.



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Jerry's photography is most interesting. It's like not I've ever seen. I like that he can put three different people in the same picture. The way it's faded it looks so cool. And just the unusualness of the picture makes his work interesting.

Beth Dow

Title: Coaster (part of the "Ruins" collection)

Artist: Beth Dow

Medium:

Year:2009



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Beth Dow keeps most of her images black and white. I like her images, but they seems maybe a little low contrast, or that there are more grays than any solid black or solid white. However, by looking at most of her images, I think this works for her. She found a way she likes her images and I think it takes some getting used to, but I really found that I liked them. I chose a rather recent image, called Coaster, and before reading about it, I thought to myself, "this really looks like something from the theme park Mt. Olympus in the Wisconsin Dells. Turns out, most of the pictures taken in her "ruins" collection are in fact from around Wisconsin Dells. She and her husband took their children on a vacation and she got a little inspiration from the architecture around the Dells.







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I think this image is really beautiful because it leaves me wanting more. I want to see more of the roller coaster, I want to be in that theme park, and I want to see what's next. As a whole, the "ruins" project was really interesting, especially knowing it was architecture from very touristy spots. I would have been easily fooled had I not been to the Wisconsin Dells myself a few years back.







Name (please only include if it is ok to publish on blog): Shannon

Sebastiao Salgado

Title: The Kamchatka peninsula (part of the Genesis project)

Artist: Sebastiao Salgado

Medium:

Year: 2004-2007



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Sebastiao Salgado shoots a lot of projects all around the world. I think his images really bring awareness to the cultures and way of life in other countries. I like how he keeps his images in black and white; it helps me focus more on the purpose and focal point of his images. I really liked his Kamchatka Peninsula image. The way the rocks are formed, it almost looks like a vortex, so the depth that the rocks play in the image is mesmerizing.





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Continuing from before, I really enjoyed the way he captured these rocks. I like the way the lines draw my eyes back and the path on the ground compliments it as well. I want to know more, like where the path leads to, what it looks like above the rocks, etc.


Name (please only include if it is ok to publish on blog): Shannon

Sandy Skoglund

Title: Revenge of the Goldfish

Artist: Sandy Skoglund

Medium:

Year: 1981



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Sandy Skoglund is an American photographer who creates surrealistic images and builds up her sets quite elaborately which takes months. The image that really stuck out to me was called "Revenge of the Goldfish." I liked this image because of the color scheme, as well as how the image told a story. However, the image's story was pretty vague, or should I say, open for interpretation. It gave the sense of being underwater, as well as the goldfish being angry or attacking. It makes me wonder what the people did to the goldfish or one goldfish in particular to make them want revenge.



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In my opinion, Sandy's work is the most appealing or interesting to look at so far. (Besides Ansel Adams, of course) I think Sandy usually picks really bright colors and when she incorporates two colors together they always mesh really well. These images are all really eye catching and I could look at them for hours.







Name (please only include if it is ok to publish on blog): Shannon

Margaret Bourke-White

Title: March of the Dynamos

Artist: Margaret Bourke-White

Medium: Photograph, gelatin silver print

Year: 1928



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From her naturalist father, an engineer and inventor, Margaret White claims to have learned perfectionism; from her mother, she claims to have developed an unapologetic desire for self-improvement. Her interest in photography began as a young woman's hobby, supported by her father's enthusiasm for cameras. She started a commercial photography studio and did architectural and industrial photography.



Her success was due to her skills with both people and her technique. Her experience at Otis Steel Company is a good example. The Otis security people were reluctant to let her shoot for many reasons: First, steel making was a defense industry, so they wanted to be sure national security was not affected. Second, she was a woman and in those days people wondered if a woman and her delicate cameras could stand up to the intense heat, hazard, and generally dirty and gritty conditions inside a steel mill. When she got permission, the technical problems began. Black and white film in that era was sensitive to blue light, not the reds and oranges of hot steel—she could see the beauty, but the pictures were coming out all black. She solved this problem by bringing along a new style of magnesium flare (which produces white light) and having assistants hold them to light her scenes. Her abilities resulted in some of the best steel factory pictures of that era, and these earned her national attention.



In 1930, she became the first Western photographer allowed to take pictures of Soviet industry. She was hired by Henry Luce as the first female photojournalist for Life magazine in 1936. Bourke-White was the first female war correspondent and the first woman to be allowed to work in combat zones during World War II. She had a knack for being at the right place at the right time: She interviewed and photographed Mohandas K. Gandhi just a few hours before his assassination. Eisenstaedt, her friend and colleague, said one of her strengths was that there was no assignment and no picture that was unimportant to her.



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Margaret Bourke-White broke many amazing barriers to get her photographs She was relentless at her pursuit of her craft. The picture called 'March of the Dynamos' caught my eye, it is very similar to a photograph I took 5 years ago at the Hoover Dam.





Name: Joe Ulwelling

David Goldes

Title: Hole in soap bubble film

Artist: David Goldes

Medium: Silver Geletin Print

Year: 2003



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Using the physical world as a metaphor, David Goldes uses his extensive scientific knowledge to create striking images of such things as water's surface tension. Using water, electricity, air movement, wind, and breath, Goldes manipulates and observes the phenomena to illustrate science's omissions, taking the descriptive aspect as his foundation and invoking metaphor, memory, narrative and emotion



Goldes is currently a professor at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. He received a BA in Chemistry and Biology from SUNY at Buffalo, a MA from Harvard in Molecular Genetics and a MFA from the Visual Studies Workshop/SUNY-Buffalo in Photography. He has received numerous fellowships, including a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a NEA Individual Artist Fellowship, Bush Foundation Art Fellowships, McKnight Foundation Fellowships, residency at the City des Arts in Paris, and fellowships from the Minnesota State Arts Board. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, NY; the Whitney Museum of Art; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Yale Art Museum; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. His photographs have also been displayed in more than fourteen solo exhibitions and twenty-three group exhibitions.



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It seems to me a somewhat rare combination, Art and Science, yet Goldes combines the two in amazing fashion. The art in his photographs are of objects that seem to defy science in some ways, and are in many ways exceptions to the rule.





Name: Joe Ulwelling

Eve Arnold

Title: Eve Arnold on the set of Becket

Artist: Eve Arnold (photo by Robert Penn)

Medium: Photograph

Year: 1963



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Eve Arnold is an American photojournalist.



Arnold is best known for her images of actress Marilyn Monroe on the set of Monroe's last film, The Misfits, but she took many photos of Monroe from 1951 onwards. An exhibition of her previously unseen photos of Monroe was displayed at the Halcyon Gallery in London in May 2005. Monroe trusted Arnold more than any other photographer.



Not only did Arnold photograph VIPs such as Queen Elizabeth II, Malcolm X, and Joan Crawford, she traveled extensively around the world, photographing in China, Russia, South Africa and Afghanistan.



She currently lives in a London nursing home. When asked by Angelica Houston if she was doing photography anymore, Arnold replied: "That's over. I can't hold a camera anymore." She did say that she spends most of her time reading such writers as Dostoevsky, Thomas Mann and Tolstoy.



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I am amazed at the variety of subjects she has photographed around the world. She seemed very dedicated to her work. It is nice to know that she is still alive.....





Name: Joe Ulwelling

William Mortensen

Title: Pictorial Photography – portfolio with 20 signed original portrait photographs

Artist: William Mortensen

Medium: gelatin silver print sepia-tone photographs

Year: 1935


Give a brief description of the movement, photographer, or term you researched. How are they significant to the history of photography (50-75 words)? William Mortensen was out of touch with the "popular" photography taken in his time. He drew criticism from members of f/64. Ansel Adams even pushed the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona to disregard his work and not archive it. He was made famous during his career as he was a photographer to many stars. At the time there was a purist movement in photography focusing on the "straight," "unadorned, print and a more documentarian style. Since Mortensen's photography illustrated a Gothic and Romantic edge he was routinely pushed away from the top photographers of the day. Mortensen "invented his own texture screams an abrasion tone process,the Metalchrome process and a non-silver pigment process.




Write a short personal reaction to the movement, photographer or term you researched. What is interesting or not interesting about the work (50 – 75 words). His portraits of actresses were well done; all conveying a specific emotion, predicament, or lust. He doesn't seem to use a lot of darks in his photography, but he really captures the nuances in the clothing of his models or stars. His work uses a lot of romanticism. All showing the body in a purely beautiful way. He also created beautiful backgrounds in a lot of his work. To me it would seem hard to replicate nature as he does relying mostly on darkroom work. It's awesome.





Name (please only include if it is ok to publish on blog): Blaine Anderson

Sandy Skoglund

Title: Revenge of the Goldfish

Artist: Sandy Skoglund

Medium: Photograph

Year: 1980



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Sandy Skoglund is an American photographer and installation artist.



Skoglund creates surrealist images by building elaborate sets or tableaux, furnishing them with carefully selected small children, models and other objects. Finally, she photographs the set, complete with actors. The works are characterized by an overwhelming amount of one object and either bright, contrasting colors or a monochromatic color scheme.



One of her most-known sculptures, features numerous fish hovering above people in bed late at night and is called Revenge of the Goldfish. The piece was used as cover art for the Inspiral Carpets album of the same name.





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I was very impressed at the amount of work that went into the sets that she photographs. Everything is so meticulously placed so that they seem to belong there, even though it would be perposterous. They seem like a scene from one of our dreams.





Name: Joe Ulwelling

Dorthea Lange

Title: Migrant Mother

Artist: Dorthea Lange

Medium:

Year: 1936



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Dorthea Lange was known for her Depression pictures for the FSA. She was a photojournalist and photographer. In 1941 Lange was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship for her amazing photographs. Lange switched to taking pictures of Japanese Americans after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Later on the Army impounded them because they are really critical. Lange was also a cofounder of the magazine Aperture.





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I like the Migrant Mother picture because it shows how hard the immigrants work. It shows how bad their life style was because they didn’t have much money so they did anything to live. I think it’s interesting on how she hides the faces of the children I would think a face picture of the children would make it more noticeable on how their living is poor and unhealthy.







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Minor White

Title: Frosted Window

Artist: Minor White

Medium:

Year: NA



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Minor White was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and when to school and the U of M and majored in botany and minored in English. He then moved to Oregon and started learning photography. Minor White co-found the Aperture magazine along with Ansel Adams and others. He was also known as one of Americas greatest photographers when he died.





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I love the frost on the window because it brings out so much detail. I liked how he brought out the white of the frost and then the window was dark so you kept your eye on the bright spots. I also love the way it actually looks like actual frost on a car window or something. The frost looks like it was taken with a different type of light source like the moon because it kind of looks like there is a reflection of the moon in the glass.







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W. Eugene Smith

Title:Unknown (possibly Wounded Solider)

Artist: W. Eugene Smith

Medium: Unknown

Year:1945

Give a brief description of the movement, photographer, or term you researched. How are they significant to the history of photography (50-75 words)? W. Eugene Smith was very signigicany in photographing the second World War. He did not follow the typical main stream media, and how they showed imiages of the war. He took very brutal, and realistic photos of the war, vitctems, etc. He eventually died of a stroke, possibly caused by his addiction to amphetamine and alcohol.

　

　

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I personally enjoyed his work, and found it brutally vivid. I can really appreiciate that he did not "hold back" on what he wanted to photograph.. He wanted to show how brutal the war was, and what the 'truth' looked like. Even today we are very censored in media to see what is REALLY going on over seas, in wars, etc. We need more photographers willing to go against the grain of typical standard photo journalist, and bring the truth to light. His revealing photos is what allows people not in the war, to really see what was going on, and see the tragic and catastrophic events were taking place.

　

　

Name (please only include if it is ok to publish on blog): BMJohnson

Lewis Hine

Title: Power House
Artist: Lewis Hine
Medium:
Year: 1920

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Lewis Hine was a very decorated photographer (If there was such a thing). His photographs were instrumental in changing the child labor laws in the US. Throughout his career he has worked with many organizations such as the American Red Cross, Russell Sage Foundation, National Child Labor Committee (NCLC), Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), he document the construction of The Empire State Building. He also served as chief photographer for the Works Progress Administration's (WPA) National Research Project, which studied changes in industry and their effect on employment. Hine was also a member of the faculty of the Ethical Culture Fieldston School.


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I feel as if Lewis photographed what he believed in, such as equal humane labor laws for everyone. It's hard to believe he didn't have any children. Hine used his camera as a tool for social reform, he photographed what was happening in the work place, it was as if he wanted everyone to see the "dirty work" and do something about it.


Name (please only include if it is ok to publish on blog): Rachel Desalegne

Imogen Cunningham and Russell Lee

Title: Dream
Artist: Imogen Cunningham
Medium: Not specified
Year:1910

Give a brief description of the movement, photographer, or term you researched. How are they significant to the history of photography (50-75 words)? Imogen Cunningham bought her first camera in 1901, but only applied herself to the art in 1906 when she was inspired by Gertrude Kasebier's work. Throughout her life Imogen's work covered a broad array of subjects. These included still-life, documentary, street photography, flowers, and nudes. Her mainstay was portraiture. She was a co-founder of Group F/64. There she helped push the notion of photography as a art form with "simple and direct presentation." She additionally worked for Vanity Fair and, at the request of Ansel Adams" the California School of Fine Arts



Write a short personal reaction to the movement, photographer or term you researched. What is interesting or not interesting about the work (50 – 75 words). Looking through Imogen's work I was amazed by the clarity of contrast she captured in all of her images. She studied botanical photography in the mid 1920's, but soon turned to industrial landscapes depicting the cities of Los Angeles and Oakland. She later became more interested in the human figure and became a photographer for Vanity Fair. In her photographs it is easy to see that the hands always held an emotion emanating from their position. Belonging to group F/64 she helped modernize photography based on "precisely exposed images of natural and found objects."




Name (please only include if it is ok to publish on blog): Blaine Anderson

Title: FSA photograph
Artist: Russell Lee
Medium: Not specified
Year: 1937

Give a brief description of the movement, photographer, or term you researched. How are they significant to the history of photography (50-75 words)? Russell Lee's notoriety was gained by working for the Farm Security Administration. He criss-crossed the United States documenting the plight of tenant farmers, sharecroppers, and migrant workers during the dust bowl and great depression. These photographs were of both urban and rural areas. His team's photographs were used by newspapers, books, magazines, posters, and exhibitions. During World War II he helped the U.S. Airforce by using aerial photography to help train pilots. After the war he documented the life of the average coal worker. The conditions, stores, medical facilities, etc. His last years were spent teaching photography and the University of Texas. He was the first photography professor employed by the U of T.




Write a short personal reaction to the movement, photographer or term you researched. What is interesting or not interesting about the work (50 – 75 words). Russell Lee's work seems to set apart major scenes in American History. He documented the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl era, segregation in the South, U.S. Airman, Japanese Internment, snake handling in Kentucky. The list could go on. He does a great job of expressing the realities of life in his work. Always focusing on the particular plight of his subjects. The framing of his photographs are always interesting and add a lot to the finished work.




Name (please only include if it is ok to publish on blog): Blaine Anderson

Ben Shahn

Title:

Artist: Ben Shahn

Medium:

Year:



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Born Sept. 12, 1898 — died March 14, 1969. As a youth he worked as a lithographer's apprentice; he later attended New York University and the National Academy of Design. In 1931 – 33 he achieved fame with a series of gouache paintings inspired by the Sacco-Vanzetti case, combining realism and abstraction in the service of sharp sociopolitical comment. In 1933 he assisted Diego Rivera with his Rockefeller Center mural and worked for the Public Works of Art Project. In 1935 – 38 he depicted rural poverty while working as an artist and photographer for the Farm Security Administration. After World War II he concentrated on easel painting, poster design, and book illustration.







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Most of his work looks like drawings to me or I should say posters. His work looks more like some art project or I might say some one with mental problems. They looked disturbing to me and I would have to say that his work is not my cup of tea…When I think of photos I want to see places or people and not what he was doing.









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lori

Marion Post Wolcott

Title: Two African-American children and their home located near Wadesboro, North Carolina, US.

Artist: Marion Post Wolcott

Medium: Photography

Year: December, 1938



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Marion Post was a noted photographer who worked for the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression documenting poverty and deprivation. Born in New Jersey, she was sent to boarding school, spending time at home with her mother in Greenwich Village when not at school. Here she met many artists and musicians and became interested in dance. She studied at The New School.



She trained as a teacher, and went to work in a small town in Massachusetts. Here she saw the reality of the Depression and the problems of the poor. When the school closed she went to Europe to study with her sister Helen. Helen was studying with Trude Fleischmann, a Viennese photographer. Marion showed Flieschmann some of her photographs and was told to stick to photography.



Because of the Nazi attacks on the Jewish population, she and her sister had to return to America for safety. At the New York Photo League she met Ralph Steiner and Paul Strand who encouraged her. Ralph Steiner took her portfolio to show Roy Stryker, head of the Farm Security Administration, and Paul Strand wrote a letter of recommendation. Stryker was impressed by her work and hired her immediately.



Her photographs for the FSA often explore the political aspects of poverty and deprivation. They also often find humor in the situations she encountered. Her work is some of the finest in the extensive archive.



In 1941 she met Lee Wolcott. When she had finished her assignments for the FSA she married him, and later had to fit in her photography around raising a family and a great deal of travelling and living overseas.





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When I look at her work I want to know what happened to the people she photographed. Where are they at today, for example the kids in the photo would be around 80 years old if they are still around. It would be very interesting to do a follow up photo and interview of some of these people.







Name: Joe Ulwelling

Danny Lyon

Title: "Bikeriders" collection

Artist: Danny Lyon

Medium:

Year: 1967



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Danny Lyon started as a self-taught photographer who eventually graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1963. Soon after, he worked at photographing during events such as the Civil Rights Movement and committees to prevent violence, as well as many others. He also created books and films and photographed other subjects on his own time. One of his well known collections is called "Bikeriders." I really liked almost all of these images because each one was different, capturing a new view on what it means to be a part of a biker gang. The one I chose features the jackets of the late '60's bikers. While still appearing to be a completely "badass" image, it shows off the fashion of being accepted into the bikers. While the focal point is still the back of the man's jacket, it also give's an insight to a possible everyday hangout spot for all the bikers.







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Like I said before, I really like the fashion statement made here. I also really like the way the leather shines, and the overall amazing contrast in the image. Because the jacket has so much going on, the detail had to be brought out really well and I think Danny Lyon did a really good job on that as well. The picture is absolutely perfect- I love the way everyone's looking in the same direction because it leads your eye from the focal point (the jacket) to the left- all the way off the page, because I want to know what's going on and what they're all looking at. The ONLY thing I might change, if he wanted to bring the jacket more and make it more striking, is take out all the other people except the guy wearing the jacket. I think it would bring out the detail even more, but again, the image isn't staged which in this case seems like a good thing.









Name (please only include if it is ok to publish on blog): Shannon

Edward Steichen

Title: Wind Fire

Artist: Edward Steichen

Medium: Photograph

Year: 1921



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Steichen was born Éduard Jean Steichen in Bivange, Luxembourg, and immigrated to the United States in 1880. At the age of fifteen, Steichen began a four-year lithography apprenticeship with the American Fine Art Company of Milwaukee. Having come across a camera shop near to his work, he persuaded himself to buy his first camera, a secondhand Kodak box "detective" camera, in 1895. Steichen and his friends pooled together their funds, rented a small room in a Milwaukee office building, and began calling themselves the Milwaukee Art Students League. The group also hired Richard Lorenz and Robert Schade for occasional lectures.

Steichen met Alfred Stieglitz in 1900. In that first meeting, Steiglitz expressed praise for Steichen's background in painting, and also bought three photographic prints of Steichen's. In 1902, when Stieglitz was formulating what would become Camera Work, he asked Steichen to design the logo for the magazine, with a custom typeface.

Steichen began experimenting with color photography in 1904, and was one of the first people in the United States to use the Autochrome Lumière process. In 1905, Steichen helped create the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession with Stieglitz.

In 1911, Steichen was "dared" to promote fashion as a fine art by the use of photography. Steichen then took photos of gowns designed by couturier Paul Poiret. This is now considered to be the first ever modern fashion photography shoot. That is, photographing the garments in such a way as to convey a sense of their physical quality as well as their formal appearance, as opposed to simply illustrating the object.

After World War I, during which he commanded the photographic division of the American Expeditionary Forces, he reverted to straight photography, gradually moving into fashion photography. Steichen's 1928 photo of actress Greta Garbo is recognized as one of the definitive portraits of Garbo.









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I was quite interested in the varied activities of Edward Steichen. Self taught artist, painter, photographer, calligrapher, etc. I am also very interested in his family history and ancestry. I seem to remember the Steichen name being mentioned in my background, and know they were from Luxemburg. I plan to pursue this investigation.







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Dorthea Lange

Title: Depression
Artist: Dorothea Lange
Medium: Unknown
Year: Unknown

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Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) has been called the greatest American documentary photographer. She is best known for her chronicles of the Great Depression and for her photographs of migratory farm workers. Dorothea Lange was a natural photographer in the truest sense because she lived, in her words, "a visual life." She could look at something: a line of laundry flapping in the wind, a pair of old, wrinkled, work-worn hands, a bread-line, a crowd of people in a bus station, and find it beautiful. Her eye was a camera lens and her camera--as she put it--an "appendage of the body."

Write a short personal reaction to the movement, photographer or term you researched. What is interesting or not interesting about the work (50 – 75 words).

I think that it is interesting that she could look at basically anything and think it's beautiful! To me that is that something that a photographer needs because you need to have an eye for things. I love that she always said that the camera was an appendage of her body.


Name (please only include if it is ok to publish on blog):Katlin

Minor White

Title: Pacific Devils Side
Artist: Minor White
Medium: unknown
Year: 1947

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Minor White was born in Minneapolis Minnesota in 1908. He was an American photographer, educator, poet and a critic. He was recognized for this intense commitment of photography and his vision. Minor White was a textural photographer. Textural photographs are pictures of items such as a bush, a tree, cracks in the road, or even a rusted up car.


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I think that it is interesting that Minor White was born right here in Minnesota. I like that he was a textural photographer and that he liked taking picture and did take pictures of items like a bush, a tree, cracks in the road, and rusted cars. I think that is interesting because you wouldn't think of taking pictures of that.

Diane Arbus

Title: Child with toy hand grenade in central park

Artist: Diane Arbus

Medium: Photograph

Year: 1962



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Diane Arbus was a photographer who took pictures of people that would not be considered normal. She would take pictures of disfigured, midgets, giants, transvestites and other people of that nature. She helped create a revolution on taking pictures of people that would cause huge controversy.



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I find it very amusing that Diane Arbus took pictures of transvestites and other questionable people. I work with people that are mentally handicapped and it is interesting that she would cause such a stir. I also feel that if an artist did this now, it would still cause controversy. From working with the mentally handicapped, I find it hugely uncontroversial because of how full some of these people live. I have seen more enjoyment in the life of someone who is mentally handicapped than most people around me.



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I do not wish my name to be published

Aaron Siskind

Title: Peru 400

Artist: Aaron Siskind

Medium: Photograph

Year: 1983



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Aaron Siskind was an American abstract expressionist photographer. He worked in both New York City and Chicago. Siskind's work focuses on the details of nature and architecture. He would take photographs of seemingly random things that became his abstract artwork.


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I liked the abstract artwork of this artist. I liked how unique the works were created by taking pictures of random things to make abstract photos. Some of the abstract photos do a really good job of looking like recognizable objects.





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David Loeffler

Martin Chambi

Title: Qorilazo Pancho Gomez
Artist: Martin Chambi

Medium: NA

Year: 1930



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Martin Chambi was one of the first major Latin American photographers. He is originally from southern Peru and is recognized for the profound historic documentary value of his photographs. He mostly photographed people in the countryside, but also did landscape as well. In 1979 Chambi was a retrospective in New York's MOMA, and which later traveled to various locations inspiring more of his work.





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I love Martin Chambi's work, and find it very fascinating. The way he photographs people is very unique and brings out their personality. For example the following picture tells a lot about the man, without saying a word. That is what I think is great about his work is that it tells a story. It is very inspirational.





Name (please only include if it is ok to publish on blog): Haley

Student Work from First Print Project

Laura Gilpin

Title: Figure 29
Artist: Laura Gilpin
Medium:
Year:1943

Give a brief description of the movement, photographer, or term you researched. How are they significant to the history of photography (50-75 words)? Laura Gilpin is considered a master of platinum Printing, which is monochromatic prints that explore the greatest ranges in tone in the picture. Laura was known for photographing portraits and landscapes of the south west region.



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I personally find Laura Gilpin's work amazing. The photographs of the land scapes are packed with sharp details. Some of the photographs are very simplistic but provactive, and others are very busy and capavating. The photo attaches uses repeating lines effectively to catch the viewers eye, and almost gives a sense of movement across the sand.

Wynn Bullock

Title: The Tide Pool
Artist: Wynn Bullock
Medium:
Year: 1958

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Wynn Bullock is a recognized American master photographer of the 20th Century whose work is included in over 90 major museum collections around the world. He received substantial critical acclaim during his lifetime, published numerous books, and is mentioned in all the standard histories.

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I think this photo is really interesting. When I look at it, it looks like stars in the sky. It doesn't even look like a tide pool. And it has a good composition of black and white. He did a really nice job of capturing the reflection of the water in the tide pool.


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Andre Kertesz

Title: Displace people
Artist: Andre Kertesz
Medium:
Year: 1916

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Andre Kertesz was known for his groundbreaking contributions in photographic compositions from what I read his technique in his early career was vary unorthodox camera angels and stile and prevented him from gaining the notoriety he desired.


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I found a quote Andre Kertesz had made on a tv show called AMERICAN MASTERS in 1985 he said " Technique isn't important, Technique is in the blood, Events and moods are more important than good lighting and the happening is what is important" I thought that was pretty cool.



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Wynn Bullock

Title: Straight photography

Artist: Wynn Bullock

Medium: straight photography

Year: 1902-1975



Give a brief description of the movement, photographer, or term you researched. How are they significant to the history of photography (50-75 words)?Wynn was known for what is called straight photography. Became famous when his work was used in the film the ( family of man).

Wynn also had exhibition at the museum of modern art. Wynn was a active member of society by being a teacher, lecturer and leader. Wynn was one of five people to established the university of Arizona center for creative photography.





Write a short personal reaction to the movement, photographer or term you researched. What is interesting or not interesting about the work (50 – 75 words).I like one thing that Wynn said and that is we have to go beyond what we know.I feel said that his life are taken so soon by cancer. Wynn seemed to be such a caring and giving person. Wynn was much love by all of his students. Wynn felt that color printing was limited so he returned to the medium of black and white which was a love for him.









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LORI

James Van Der Zee

In fifth grade James owned his own camera. He took pictures of family and friends and would develop e them himself.
In 1914, he worked as a darkroom Technician. Three years later he opened his own studio. In the 1920's he shot studio portraits, wedding, sport teams, funerals and Celebrities. He would retouch negatives to straighten teeth or fill a bald spot photos. James Van Der Zee developed photo montage. It was another technique to multiply images in one picture. These photos of middle class black life was a side America rarely seen.
In 1932, his business struggled through the depression. Personal camera started to take the places of professional photography. They were more available to be purchased. People had very little need for photographer. James were forced to shoot odd jobs to make ends meet.
In 1968, Van Der Zee collection of 75,000 photos covering 60 years of African American life was discovered by Reginald McGhee. New York's Metropolitan Museum of art featured his exhibit called " Harlem On My Mind". That night he received national recognition.

Adolph de Meyer

Title: Adolph De Meyer

Artist: photographers

Medium: first fashion photographer

Year: 1913-1922



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He was the creator of American fashion photography. Adolph was born in to wealth. Father was German and mother was Scottish. Adolph gravitated toward London because of it wealth and homosexuality. This brought him into the orbit of the prince of whales. Adolph married Olga Caracciolo who was the illegitimate daughter of the prince of whales.The meyer family lost all of there money due to world war I , this forced the family to move to America,





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I feel that this was very important to not only the fashion world but also the publishing world. This movement chanced the way the women viewed fashion and there weight. He mad women feel and look beautiful. Fashion is very important not only to the publishing world but also to the manurfactoring world. He changed the way we viewed the world.







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LORI

Ansel Adams

Title:

Artist: Ansel Adams

Medium:

Year:



Give a brief description of the movement, photographer, or term you researched. How are they significant to the history of photography (50-75 words)? F.64 was a group of photographers formed in the early 1930s. They are significant to the history of photography because they tried to "define photography as an art form by simple and direct presentation through purely photographic methods" Pure photography was defined as possessing no qualities of technique, but rather a sharply focused and unchanged image.







Write a short personal reaction to the movement, photographer or term you researched. What is interesting or not interesting about the work (50 – 75 words). I think F.64 is an interesting group because of their focus on taking great pictures simply by choosing and framing their subject well. I tend towards very shallow depth of field, the exact opposite of F.64's methods; it makes it very interesting to me to see what great images they were able to get in this way. It's also interesting because of the success that each of its members went on to have in the field of photography.









Name (please only include if it is ok to publish on blog): Andrew Benson

Johan Hagemeyer

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Title: Albert Einstein
Artist: Johan Hagemeyer
Medium: gelatin silver; 9.5 x 7.5 in.
Year: 1931

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Johan had a way of sometimes retouched or manipulated his photos When Weston, Ansel Adams and others founded Group f/64, devoted to straight, unmanipulated photography, Hagemeyer did not join. Perhaps because of his determination to go his own way or perhaps because his style was never fully appreciated According to wikipedia.org 'he never came close to achieving the fame of his former friends. In 1947 he left Carmel and returned to San Francisco full-time. He died poor and virtually forgotten at age 78.'

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Johan had a way of doing things and he wasn't about to change his ways for anyone I admire the man, he stood up for what he believed in, and he didn't just "go with the flow" because everybody wanted him to. If he would have been as well known as his 'friends' I think a lot of people would have liked and respected his work.


Name (please only include if it is ok to publish on blog): Rachel Desalegne

Paul Strand

Title: Wall Street
Artist: Paul Strand

Medium: NA

Year: 1915



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Paul Strand helped establish photography in the 20th century to art form. He had help by two other modernist photographers, Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston. His work covered six decades throughout America, Europe, and Africa. His profession started as a hobby, but when taken to the 291 art gallery with his teacher, Lewis Hine, he realized he wanted to take it more seriously. Not only did Strand just take photographs, but he was interested in film-making as well.





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I think a lot of Strand's work is very interesting. There are a few of his pictures that are close ups of actual cameras and I think that is very cool. When he takes the picture it not only gives off that modern feel, but it shows all the beautiful detail inside of the camera. The Wall Street picture is also interesting because he has taken a boring seen and made it appealing with all of the shadows.







Name (please only include if it is ok to publish on blog): Haley

Alfred Stieglitz

Title: The Terminal
Artist: Alfred Stieglitz
Medium:
Year: 1893

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Alfred Stieglitz was an American photographer and modern art promoter who was instrumental over his fifty-year career in making photography an accepted art form. In addition to his photography, Stieglitz is known for the New York art galleries that he ran in the early part of the 20th century, where he introduced many avant-garde European artists to the U.S. He was married to painter Georgia O'Keeffe.

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Alfred Stieglitz is an amazing photographer. He captures Europe. Especially The terminal picture. I feel like I'm there watching the people, hearing the noises. It gives u a sense of how dirty the streets were back then as well.

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Artificial Light Photography

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Artist: unknown
Medium: unknown
Year: unknown

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In short, Artificial Light Photography, is photography using a flash. While the main purpose is to illuminate a dark scene, it can also be used to capture moving objects. Flash has come along since it's first premier as a flash bulb, including now using LED lights. While using a flash can be beneficial, it also has it's draw backs, including the infamous "red eye".


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As with photography as whole, is interesting to me see how far it's come. We no measure the exact time, and amount of light given (intensity) , to get the desired image. However, when I'm on the other side of the camera (not taking the photo's) a flash can be quite bothersome. Smiling for a camera repeatedly can be hard in it's self, not getting a migraine from a repeating ( and sometimes rapid) flash, can be overwhelming.


Name (please only include if it is ok to publish on blog): Brandon M Johnson

Frank Meadow Sutcliffe

Title: "Quo Vadis?"
Artist: Frank Meadow Sutcliffe
Medium: Van Dyke was used which consists of both iron and silver compounds
Year: 1896 approximately

Give a brief description of the movement, photographer, or term you researched. How are they significant to the history of photography (50-75 words)? The photographer, Frank Meadow Sutcliffe, lived in Whitby England which is a seaside town in North Yorkshire. He made a living by taking portraits, but also won over 60 medals in his lifetime for his main body of work which consisted of life along the docks and streets of Whitby. He wrote for numerous publications such as the Yorkshire Weekly Post and was a founding member of "The Linked Ring." He also was a honorary member or the RPS.



Write a short personal reaction to the movement, photographer or term you researched. What is interesting or not interesting about the work (50 – 75 words). Frank Meadow Sutcliffe played a major role by turning photography into an art form. His most famous print is called "The Water Rats" and actually caused him to be excommunicated by the pope for its child nudity. Ironically the pope thought it would corrupt the other sex. I really like his work because it truly shows life in the late 1800's and early 1900's. He had to stage his photographs but the realism always comes through. I particularly like the work he did involving the harbor in Whitby because the photography is filled with items to focus on which keeps the viewer entertained.




Name (please only include if it is ok to publish on blog): Blaine Wm. Anderson

Edward S. Curtis

Title: Sioux Chiefs

Artist: Edward S. Curtis

Medium: Large Format

Year: 1908



Give a brief description of the movement, photographer, or term you researched. How are they significant to the history of photography (50-75 words)? Edward Curtis first got into photography working as an apprentice in St Paul, MN, later moving to Seattle, WA. Later in his career, he produced a series of photographs of native Americans for J.P. Morgan, consisting of 1500 prints in 20 volumes. He wanted to not just photograph them, but document the native people and their way of life. He took over 40,000 photographs of 80 different tribes, and also made thousands of wax cylinder recordings of their language and music.







Write a short personal reaction to the movement, photographer or term you researched. What is interesting or not interesting about the work (50 – 75 words). Edward Curtis' work is interesting because of the detail with which he wanted to record the native american's lives. It seems like he cared both about the natives, and being accurate, however, it is noted that he retouched many of his images, completely removing or adding some details, especially ones that show parts of the modern world. It is interesting that someone so big on detail and accuracy would change his images.









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Henri Le Secq

Artist of Paris
Henri Le Secq
1851

Henri Le Secq was a French painter who learned photography and the wax paper negative process from his friend Gustave Le Gray. The wax paper process produced a negative with a thin coat of wax to make it smooth and giving the photographer the option to make as many prints of one photo as he chose.
In 1851 Le Secq was one of the founding members of the first photographic organizations of the world, the Societe Heliographique. Around the same time he and five other photographers were sent throughout France to document arcitectual monuments, mostly cathedrals, with photographs. He used cameras capable of producing large format pictures in the size of 51cm by 74cm to capture his work.
Henri gave up photography sometime after 1856 but he always believed photography was a tool for the painter and would use photographs to prepare for paintings. Sometime around 1870 he feared his photographs were starting to fade and so he began reprinting his famous photos in cyanotype to preserve them.
I find it interesting how a painter and sculptor who used photography as prep work for his art could take such amazing pictures of French architect and just abruptly give it up and go back to painting. In just a few short years he left his mark on the world with his photographs and made sure to preserve them even years later. He was a true artist in my optinion.



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Angi

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and
leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

John Thomson

Title: A Pagoda on an Island in the Estuary if the Min River

Artist: Thomson, John

Medium: n/a

Year: 1870-71



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John was one of the first photographers to document the people, landscapes, and the artifacts of the eastern culture traveling to the Far East. He became a High Society in Mayfair in 1881. Thomson inspired by Henri Mouhot’s embarked on his major photographic expeditions the first of many. John Thomson was a very talented photographer in many different areas. With his legacy of a outstanding quality and breadth of coverage. In some of his work he was seem as a photojournalism of the people in the streets of London. Photographs with words made him a innovator with this combination.







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I really enjoyed John’s Landscaping and Architectural photography the most of what I saw when doing my research. These photos just seem so natural and not set up to look that way. They are the way he is seeing them with his own eyes. The ones with people in the outdoor scenes are just like he took them without the people knowing he was. In the photos I like the best of John Thomson are these ones that are without the people even caring if they are in the photo they are doing what they doing normally. The landscaping ones look so unique but not set up. John has a wide variety of different specialty scenes that he is very great at taking photographs.







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John Thomson

John Thomson
Scottish Photographer
1837-1921
　
　
　
John Thomson traveled 5,000 miles with his wooden camera and fragile glass plates to reveal a world most people had never seen. His photographs of Asian Countries included, Cambodia, China, Thailand, and Taiwan. During his time there he brought back all these different cultures with his photographs. 700 of his original glass negatives are now in display at the Wellcome Library in London.
The reason I chose John Thomson was because of his travel to Asia. What really got my attention was when he traveled to Cambodia, and was the first to photograph the temples of Angkor. This summer I went to visit Cambodia with my family and had the opportunity to visit Angkor Wat.
　
　
　
　
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Clarence White

Title: Morning
Artist: Clarence White
Medium: Photogravure print
Year: 1908

Give a brief description of the movement, photographer, or term you researched. How are they significant to the history of photography (50-75 words)?

Clarence White was a photographer and a founding member of the Photo-Secession movement. During his lifetime he was widely recognized as a master of the art form for his consummate sentimental, pictorial portraits and for his excellence as a teacher of photography. Near the end of his career he founded the Clarence H. White School of Photography, which produced many of the best-known photographers of the 20th century including, Paul Outerbridge, Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange and, Ralph Steiner.


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His portraits and landscapes show a particular interest in chiaroscuro. None of his pictures have heavy shadows or dark tones; he specialized in light, delicate pictures. White was one of the photographers promoted by Stieglitz as the 'Photo-Secession', exhibiting his work in their exhibitions and publishing it in Camera Work - including a whole issue in 1908. His pictures are characterized by his use of light, often creating a virtual glow from the highlights. He experimented widely with printing processes, including platinum and gum dichromate.


Name (please only include if it is ok to publish on blog): Rachel Desalegne

Anna Atkins

Title: Cyantype photogram

Artist: Anna Atkins

Medium: cyantype photograms

Year: 1850



Give a brief description of the movement, photographer, or term you researched. How are they significant to the history of photography (50-75 words)?

I chose to write my report on Anna because she is a women and I feel that it would have been harder for a women to have been taken seriously in a man environment .Anna’s maiden name was Children, she was born on March 16, 1799 and died on June 9, 1871.Anna’s father taught her to be independent because he had to raise her, because her mother died before she was 1 year due to complications of child birth. Anna studied botany she had a great love for plants. Anna married in 1825 to John Atkins and he helped her to travel and see the world and with doing this it helped her to develop her love for photography. Anna combined both her love of botany and photography by developing the cyantype photograms. Anna published a book illustrating photographic images some people say she was the first person to create a photograph. 1850 Anna produced three presentations album of cyantype photograms.





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I feel that she was inspiring to all women and young girls to go after your dreams and to not be afraid to experiment with new ideas. Anna had a rough start in life by having her mother die at such a young age .The pictures them self were so new and innovative . Most People would have taken photo’s of family members or places that they had traveled to, but she chose to take them of plants.







Name (please only include if it is ok to publish on blog):Lori S.