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How is Victorian photography different from photos from the Modernist Era?
Modern photography is different from Victorian style because Victorian photographers
imitated academic paintings, whereas Modern photographers expressed their own views
of the world using avant-grade photographs.
Summarize the Biographical and other important Information for each photographer and
include 2 works from the internet
Man Ray 1890-1977
 Dada and Surrealism
 Photographer/painter
 Rayographs developed in 1921 look like our photograms
Man Ray
‘Rayograph’
1921
HYPERLINK
"http://www.getty.edu/art/collections/objects/o61240.html" Le Violon d'Ingres ,
1924 by Man Ray, © HYPERLINK "http://www.manraytrust.com/" Man Ray
Trust
Eugene Atget 1857-1927
 The father of modern photography.
 Raised the mundane to the magical. Reduction to essentials lends a hyperclarity
that make the ordinary seem extraordinary.
 His arrested scenes often looked haunted.
Atget
‘Cour, 28 rue Bonaparte’
1910
Atget
Jardin du Luxembourg
1906
Henri Cartier-Bresson
 Was a cubist painter before becoming a photographer in 1932.
 Snaps the most intense instant of action or emotion to reveal an event’s inner
meaning.
 His juxtapositions made the real seem unreal.
 Some images are so shocking that they seem to be the result of pure chance, but
his odd cropping was carefully composed.
Cartier-Bresson
Hyères, France
1932
Cartier-Bresson
Behind the Gare St.
Lazare
1932
Stieglitz 1864-1942
 Revolutionized camera work by stressing unretouched photography. Not to mimic
paintings or resort lens and lighting tricks, but exploit the direct honesty.
 “The Steerage” was the first documentary photograph to reach the level of
conscious art in America.
 “Photography is my passion, the search for truth my obsession.”
Stieglitz
Equivalent
1930
Stieglitz
The Terminal
1911, 1892
Edward Weston 1886-1958
 Started his career in taking pictures of romantic Hollywood starlets. In the 1920’s,
he began taking pictures of stark images of nudes, sand dunes and vegetables.
 Detail is sharp.
 He tried to get the quality of the subject rendered with the utmost exactness.
Weston
Pepper
1930
Weston
Cabbage Leaf
1931
Dorothea Lange 1895-1965
 Followed the homeless who had been tractored off their farms.
 Her compassion helped her capture poignant moments that tell about human
feelings and lives.
 The dignity and honesty of Lange’s photos shocked Americans into recognizing
the plight of the poor.
 Had a strong sense of justice which sparked a silent fury that came to light in the
strong emotion of her photographs.
Lange
Damaged Child
1936
Lange
Resettled Child
1935
Cartier-Bresson (1908 - August 3, 2004) find out his death date