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AWQ4MI – Mrs. Kalinowski
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PRE-HISTORY: Portraiture
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CLASSICAL: Portraiture
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MEDIEVAL: Portraiture
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1500s: Portraiture
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1600s: Portraiture
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1700s: Portraiture
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1800s: Portraiture
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1910s: Portraiture
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1920s: Portraiture
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1930s: Portraiture
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MODERN: Portraiture 1800S & 1900S…
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Etienne-Jules Marey, Schenkel, High Jump, 1886 A scientist, physiologist seeking concrete/measurable facts to analyze human/animal movement A mechanical device attached the subject to a wire with a pen. Subject’s movement activated the pen to draw on paper how the subject moved. Quest: to picture a body’s “all at oneness” to display all moving parts of the body
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Social Realist Painting vs. Photography Peter Henry Emerson,, Furze-Cutting on the Suffolk Common, 1886 Gustave Courbet, The Stone Breakers, 1849-50
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Photojournalism Jacob A. Riis, 5 Cents a Spot (How the Other Half Lives), 1890. A journalist - used photography to better convey conditions of immigrants http://www. youtube.com /watch?v=87 SCTEsIufY Muckracking : Exposing political/social corruption to the public. Communicating news with photographs instead of text Flash powder
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Social Reform http://www. youtube.com /watch?v=RL WM6M8__X4 Lewis W. Hine, Steelworker, 85 Stories up (left – looking north to Central Park/right – above Rockefeller Centre ), 1931. A sociologist- used photography to reveal dismal labour conditions and how people became insignificant in the urban/city landscape Making changes in society and its perception
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Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother 1936. Walker Evans, Allie Mae 1935
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Ethnography http://www. youtube.com /watch?v=KX RwEenveRI A ‘scientific’/visual description of individuals/cultures/peoples Photographers took photos according to their own view and controlled the Other’s visual identity Edward S. Curtis, Bear Bull-Blackfoot, 1926. A self-taught photographer- documented Native Americans in a non-object/subject way (he used a ‘white, European culture filter’ that made natives appear romantic, pictorial, soft-focused, nostalgic, not assimilated, emotional & used props to stage scenes/people)
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Ethnography as Social Consciousness A ‘scientific’/visual description of individuals/cultures/peoples Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, 1936 (left) & White Angel Breadline, 1931 (right) A photographer – photographed people impacted by WW1 during The Great Depression who became an “Other.” Her work called attention to poverty and directed aid to those in desperate need.
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Romance & spectacle 1945 & 2012
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Barbara Krugar
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Cindy Sherman - Judith
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Gregory Crewdson
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Jill Greenberg
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TODAY: The #selfie Obama #selfie – etiquette?
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Plane Crash Victim Avatar Astronaut hovering in space Dog shoots his own #selfie “I woke up like this…”
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Earliest #Selfies? Van Gogh – proto #selfie? (19 th C) Parmigianino’s – Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror (16 th C) – the earliest #selfie?
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Is the #selfie making us all narcissistic? Or are these today’s self- portraits? Infographic: http://www.medi abistro.com/alltwi tter/selfie- syndrome_b52337 http://www.medi abistro.com/alltwi tter/selfie- syndrome_b52337 Portraiture VS. Narcissism
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