1. Genre, Photography and conventions

2. Genre
A category of Artistic composition characterised by a particular form, style or content (figure, space, object)
*Portraiture, still life, documentary, Photojournalism, Landscape, Narrative, Environment, Constructed, architectural,

3. Genre: Portraiture
A drawing, painting or a photograph with a focus of / on a person. A likeness of a person, especially one showing human figure.
(people, animals)

4. Annie Liebowitz

5. Ralph Gibson

6. Diane Arbus

8. Portrait photographers
*Dianne Arbus *Annie liebowitz *Robert Frank *Bill Brandt *Harry Callahan *Lee Friedlander *Duane michaels *Irvine Penn *Man Ray *Walker Evans *Robert Mappelthorpe
*August Sander
*Alfred Stieglitz
*Gary Winogaurd
*Richard Avedon
*Yousuf Karsh
*Dorothea Lange
*Ralph Gibson
*Fiona Pardington
*Cindy Sherman
*Christine Webster
*Sally Mann
*Marti friedlander

9. Genre : Landscape
A composition depicting an expanse of scenery or space.
(city, country, any spatial environment)

10. Laurence Aberhart

11. JoAnn Verberg

12. Joel Meyerowitz

14. Landscape Photographers
Ansel Adams
Edward Weston
Laurence Aberhart
Peter Preyer
Ans Westra
Weegee
Andrew Ross
Eugene Atget
William Eggleston
Lewis Baltz
Ronnie Van Hout
Mark Adams
Joann Verberg
Candida Hofer
Bruce Foster
Richard Misrach
Terry Evans
Rhona Bitner
Desiree Dorlon
Wayne Wilson Wong
Paul Caponigro
Natalie Robertson

15. Genre: Still life
A Painting, Picture or photograph of inanimate (not living breathing/ thinking) objects

16. Abelardo Morell

17. Alan knowles

18. Megan Jenkinsen

19. Steve Boniface
Vanessa Wu
Ann Orman

20. Still Life photographers
Laura Letinsky
Martin Parr
Imogen Cunningham
Peter Preyer
Anne Nobel
Robert mapplethorpe
Boyd Web
Paul Strand
Keith Arnatt
Mari mahr
Fiona Pardington
Laurie simmons
Alberado Morell
Ben Cauchi
Alan knowles
Tina Modotti
Andre Kertesz
Janet Bayley
Mary Frey
Lee Friedlander
Jo Ann Callis
Victor Schrager
Di French
Moholy Nagy
Jan Groover
Megan Jenkinson
Olivia Parker
Edward Weston
Sophie Calle
Natalie Robertson

21. Genre: Documentary
Presenting facts objectively without editorialising or inserting fictional matter.
-fly on the wall
-depicting truth /events
-photograph as a document
-’Momento Mori’
-The decisive moment

22. Lee Friedlander

23. Sebastiao Salgado

24. Henri Cartier -Bresson

25. Documentary photographers
Bernice Abbott
Ansel Adams
Mary Ellen Mark
Diane Arbus
Jean Eugene Atget
Brian Brake
Robert Capa
Henri Cartier- Bresson
Bruce Connew
Walker Evans
Nan Golden
Lewis Hine
James Nachtway
Dorothea Lange
Ans Westra
Paul Strand
Gary Winogrand
Andre kertesz
Ernsest Haas
Sally Mann
Alfred Eisentaedt
Anne nobel
Robbin Morrison
Marti Friedlander
Sebastiao Salgado

26. Artistic Conventions (Traité, practice, rules, commonalities, dispositions)
An artistic convention is a method or style of conveying or portraying something that is widely used and recognized as meaning a certain thing (or conforming to a certain style).

27. A THEME
© Naomi Williams

28. EXPLORE AN OBJECT
© Naomi Williams

29. TO COMMUNICATE
Aimed at conveying to the rest of the country, the conditions farmers were experiencing in middle America
Pennington County, South Dakota. Farm Security Administration, 1936.
Arthur Rothstein

30. “The events I have recorded should not be forgotten and must not be repeated.”
James Nachwey
Sudan, Famine victim about to receive water in a feeding centre.

31. TO EXPLORE / COMPARE
“the forms of shells, nudes, vegetables, and rocks come to resemble one another..”
Edward Weston

32. Works in a fine art practice using documentary strategy
TO DESCRIBE
Works in a fine art practice using documentary strategy
Published her work with a diary of her observations
Sophie Calle

33. SET UP TO DISCUSS OTHER ISSUES OR THEMES
Laura Letinsky

34. Martin Parr