Combining the aesthetic principles of Secession and photojournalism with motion photography – The result is a reaction to the three streams of 20 th. C. Art: Expressionism, Abstraction, and Fantasy Work from this time will interact soberly with introspective and candid human portraits Evolving into surrealist compositional abstractions, either through montage, photogram, macro-image, or strange character compositions
Eugene Atget. Versailles Albumen-silver print. MOMA
Andre Kertesz. Blind Musician MOMA
Brassai. "Bijou" of Montmartre MOMA
Henri Cartier-Bresson. Mexico, Gelatin-silver print
Robert Doisneau. Side Glance Gelatin-silver print
Alfred Stieglitz. The Steerage The Art Institute of Chicago
Alfred Stieglitz. Equivalent Chloride print. The Art Institute of Chicago.
Edward Weston. Pepper Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona
Ansel Adams. Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico MOMA
Margaret Bourke-White. Fort Peck Dam, Montana Time Warner, Inc.
Edward Steichen. Greta Garbo (for Vanity Fair magazine). The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Wayne Miller. Childbirth. "Family of Man" exhibition. 1955
James Van Der Zee. The Wife of the Reverend Becton, Pastor of Salem Methodist Church Society Photo--Couple in Raccoon Coats (1932) Funeral Picture--Blanch Powell (1926)
Albert Renger-Patzsch.Potter's Hands. 1925
August Sander. Pastry Cook, Cologne. 1928
Josef Sudek. View from Studio Window in Winter. 1954
Berenice Abbott. Transformation of Energy
Aaron Siskind. New York 1. New York
Minor White. Ritual Branch. 1958
Photojournalists who persevered to bring a sense of immediacy to the horror and despair of poverty and war so characterizing the early 20 th c. Artists will be in the midst of harrowing war or Great Depression to get these images.
Hungarian Combat Photojournalist – Documented Spanish Civil War, Second Sino- Japanese War, World War 2, 1948 Arab – Israeli War, First Indochina War Was on Normandy (Omaha Beach) and the Liberation of Paris Founded Magnum Photos
Robert Capa. Death of a Loyalist Soldier. September 5, 1936
The ten photos selected from the eleven surviving negatives and published by LIFE on June 19, 1944
Marc Riboud, Girl with Flower. 1969
V-J Day in Times Square, a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt, was published in Life in 1945 with the caption, In New York's Times Square a white-clad girl clutches her purse and skirt as an uninhibited sailor plants his lips squarely on hers
American Photojournalist working with the Farm Security Administration to document the extent of Depression in mid-west culture Drawing public attention to the poor and downtrodden Famous for dust bowl images and Japanese Internment portraiture Elements of weighty and unplanned portrait, candid images
First-graders, some of Japanese ancestry, at the Weill public school, San Francisco, Calif., pledging allegiance to the United States flag. The evacuees of Japanese ancestry will be housed in War relocation authority centers for the duration of the war
Dorothea Lange. Migrant Mother, California. 1936
The development of action photography through aperture precision allows the artist more control over light exposure over time. Cameras also allow for double negatives that allow for two pictures to be taken over each other. Result: Cubism in photograph form using montage or photogram
Herbert Bayer. lonely metropolitan Photomontage
John Heartfield. As in the Middle Ages, so in the Third Reich Poster, photomontage.
Man Ray. Rayogmph Gelatin-silver print.
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. Unfilled. Photogram
Barbara Morgan, Martha Graham, Letter to the World, Kick, 1940
The constructivist school inspires the further abstraction of photography by removing the lens Documentation of Scientific and physical properties of the world Documentary power of important issues of human suffering.
W. Eugene Smith. Tomoko in Her Bath. December 1971
Robert Frank. Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1955
Bill Brandt. London Child. 1955
Jerry Uelsmann
David Hockney, Gregory Watching the Snow Fall, Kyoto, 1983
David Wojnarowicz,Death in the Cornfield, 1990
Joanne Leonard. Being In Pictures (Book Cover) with "Romanticism is Ultimately Fatal", 2004–2008.
Cindy ShermanUntitled Film Still #3 (1977) Untitled Film Still #21 (1978) Unfitted Film Still # Untitled No
Timed Writing What are two central themes of Modernism? Choose two works in different mediums from the 20 th century that exemplify the ideas and conflicts of the era. How does modern art relate to the past, the present, and to the future?