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Twentieth CenturyOf The
Greatest
Photographers
How do you define
Great
Photographers
SKILLFUL.
SKILLFUL. INFLUENTIAL.
REMARKABLE.INFLUENTIAL.SKILLFUL.
Eugène AtgetFebruary 12, 1857 – August 4, 1927
French photographer noted for his photographs documenting
the architecture and street scenes of Paris.
Photographs
Where Did The People
Go?
Atgetprefers to work early in the morning
Giving many of the images a feeling of
silence and timelessness.
Made thousands of images that recreate the visual past of a great city.
My work was physically demanding as my old bellows camera, with its glass plates, and a wooden tripod, weighed more than forty pounds!
I offered to lend him a little Rolleiflex, but he refused.
Man RayAn American artist who spentmost of his career in Paris, France.
August 27, 1890– November 18, 1976
Dada and Surrealist movements’ Significant contributor
Dada
Anti-war. Anti-bourgeois.
Anarchist in nature
Surprise. Unexpected juxtapositions. Non sequitur.
Surrealism
In 1999, ARTnews magazine named him one of the
25 most influential artists of the 20th
century.
Photographs
Photogram
He never fully abandoned painting though portrait photography
provided him with both financial support and celebrity status
“There was no conflict between the two –why couldn’t people accept the idea thatone might engage in two activities in his lifetime, alternately or simultaneously?”
So you have to thank this manfor making PHOTOGRAPHY
an accepted ART FORM.
Alfred StieglitzJanuary 1, 1864 - July 13, 1946
American photographer &modern art promoter
Technical
Experimental
A Photography Crusader
Technical
Experimental
“Stieglitz does not, like his Parisian contemporary, Atget, range the city from morning to night, deliberately composing a documentary history of its life, after the fashion of Zola. He not merely observes: he waits, he eliminates; he selects.”
- Lewis Mumford, critic
8 of 9 highest prices ever paid at auction for Stieglitz photographs are images of
Georgia O'Keeffe
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Like the Chinese proverb,
ONE PICTURE IS WORTH TEN
THOUSAND WORDS
Walker EvansNovember 3, 1903 – April 10, 1975
American photographer
Best known for his work for the Farm Security Administrationdocumenting the effects of theGreat Depression.
His goal as a photographer was to make pictures that are:
literateauthoritativetranscendent
Photographs
In 2000, Evans was inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame
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American photographer and film director well-known for
her conceptual portraits
Cindy ShermanJanuary 19, 1954 - Present
As a child, she loved to play dress-up, using old clothes she had inherited from her
grandmother.
She also loved to draw, and she practiced by studying
her own face.
Year after she graduated from college, she began to make the series of 69 photographs, (Untitled Film Stillsrecognized as --
“one of the landmarks of late-twentieth-century art.”
Photographs
And much more…
Sherman’s contribution is conceptual
“She has reclaimed the oldest trick in the book, storytelling, and given it new life
in visual art.” - Calvin Tomkins
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Stieglitz, Evans, and Atget were experimental artists who were committed to realism
Man Ray and Sherman were conceptual innovators who constructed images to express their ideas
I might say that I possess all of Old Paris.- Eugène Atget, 1920
I want to be contradictory and irrational.- Man Ray, 1966
Photography is my passion. The search for Truth my obsession.- Alfred Stieglitz, 1921
It is reality that photography reaches toward.- Walker Evans, 1969
[T]he one thing I’ve always known is that the camera lies.- Cindy Sherman, 1987
This was based on the study byDavid Galenson (2009).
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
On determining the greatest…
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