AWQ4MI – Mrs. Kalinowski
PRE-HISTORY: Portraiture
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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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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
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 1800S & 1900S…
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Etienne-Jules Marey, Schenkel, High Jump, 1886
A scientist, physiologist
seeking
concrete/measurable
facts to analyze
human/animal
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
Social Realist Painting vs.
Photography
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Gustave Courbet, The Stone Breakers, 1849-50
Peter Henry Emerson, , Furze-Cutting on the Suffolk Common, 1886
Photojournalism
Communicating news with photographs instead of
text
Muckracking:
Exposing
political/social
corruption to
the public.
http://www.
youtube.com
/watch?v=87
SCTEsIufY
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Flash powder
Jacob A. Riis, 5 Cents a Spot (How the Other Half Lives), 1890.
 A journalist - used photography to better convey conditions of
immigrants
Social Reform
Making changes in society and its perception
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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.
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A sociologist- used photography to reveal dismal labour
conditions and how people became insignificant in the urban/city
landscape
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Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother 1936.
Walker Evans, Allie Mae 1935
Ethnography
A ‘scientific’/visual description of individuals/cultures/peoples
Photographers
took photos
according to their
own view and
controlled the
Other’s visual
identity
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http://www.
youtube.com
/watch?v=KX
RwEenveRI
Edward S. Curtis, Bear Bull-Blackfoot, 1926.
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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)
Ethnography as Social
Consciousness
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A ‘scientific’/visual description of
individuals/cultures/peoples
Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, 1936 (left) & White
Angel Breadline, 1931 (right)
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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
 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
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Obama #selfie – etiquette?
Dog shoots his own #selfie
“I woke up like this…”
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Avatar
Astronaut hovering in space
Plane Crash Victim
Earliest #Selfies?
Van Gogh – proto #selfie?
(19th C)
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Parmigianino’s – Self Portrait in a
Convex Mirror (16th C) – the
earliest #selfie?
Portraiture VS. Narcissism
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 Is the #selfie
making us all
narcissistic? Or are
these today’s selfportraits?
 Infographic:
http://www.medi
abistro.com/alltwi
tter/selfiesyndrome_b52337