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Henri Cartier-Bresson Behind the Gare St Lazare, Paris, 1932. What was Modern? From about 1915 avant-garde photographers began to produce works with a sharp focus and an emphasis on formal qualities, exploiting the camera as a mechanical and technological tool.
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Henri Cartier-BressonBehind the Gare St Lazare, Paris, 1932 What was Modern? From about 1915 avant-garde photographers began to produce works with a sharp focus and an emphasis on formal qualities, exploiting the camera as a mechanical and technological tool. This approach rejected the artistic manipulations, soft focus, and painterly quality of Pictorialism, and sought straight, unadulterated images of modern life, Establishing photography as an independent art form..
Henri Cartier-BressonBehind the Gare St Lazare, Paris, 1932 Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, From the radio tower 1928
Walker Evans, Allie Mae Burroughs, 1936 Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, From the radio tower 1928
Diane Arbus, Mexican dwarf in hotel room, 1970 Walker Evans, Allie Mae Burroughs, 1936
POST MODERNISM A late 20th-century style in the arts, architecture, and theory that is a departure from twentieth century modernism. • a mixing of different artistic styles • the self-conscious, ironical use of earlier styles and conventions• images relating to consumerism and mass communication of late 20th-century post-industrial society
PASTICHE An artistic work made in a style that imitates the style of another work, artist, or period; an artistic work consisting of a medley of pieces taken from various sources.APPROPRIATIONTaking something for one's own use, typically without the owner's permission; the artistic practice of reworking images from well-known paintings, photographs in one's own work.
Cindy Sherman Untitled 1975 Born in 1954 in New Jersey, Cindy Sherman is counted among the most influential artists of the last half-century. To create her images, she assumes the multiple roles of photographer, model, makeup artist, hairdresser, and stylist.
I was always the girl watching TV and doing something else - Cindy Sherman Lucille Ball c1945
Panel From Secret Hearts comic, 1962; Tony Abruzzo Illustrator Like many Post-Modern artists, Cindy Sherman is inspired by the media images that saturate the modern world. Images from television, magazines, movies, advertisements and comics. Female media stereotypes were the subject of her work, and the work of other feminist-inspired artists like Madonna.
Annie Liebovitz, portrait of Cindy Sherman, Vanity Fair magazine, c1990
What does Cindy Sherman really look like? - portraits of her by other artists. Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Cindy Sherman, c1983
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Cindy Sherman, c1983 Abe Frajndlich, Cindy Sherman, 1987
Robert Mapplethorpe, portrait of Cindy Sherman, c1985 Abe Frajndlich, Cindy Sherman, 1987
Robert Mapplethorpe, portrait of Cindy Sherman, c1985 Chuck Close, Cindy Sherman, c1995
Chuck Close, Cindy Sherman, c1995 Martin Schoeller, portrait of Cindy Sherman, 2000
Chuck Close, portrait of Cindy Sherman, 2006, Jacquard tapestry from original Daguerrotype Martin Schoeller, portrait of Cindy Sherman, 2000
Chuck Close, portrait of Cindy Sherman, 2006, Jacquard tapestry from original Daguerrotype David Hershkovits, Cindy Sherman, 2008
Cindy Sherman Vogue video David Hershkovits, Cindy Sherman, 2008
In Post-Modernism, there is a move away from exploration of individual identity, eg in the portrait or self-portrait.Photographers like Cindy Sherman, Rafael Goldchain and Gillian Wearing broaden their work to encompass cultural identity: race, gender, sexuality, family, religion etc.
Rafael Goldchain, I am my FamilyThe self-portraits in I Am My Family are detailed reenactments of ancestral figures that can be thought of as mourning and remembrance.Self-portraiture through the conventions of family portrait photography. Rafael Goldchain Self Portrait as Dona Balbina Baumfeld Szpiegel de Rubenstein (born Poland 1903 died Chile 1964)
We look at family photographs in order to recognize ourselves. Rafael Goldchain Self Portrait as Dona Balbina Baumfeld Szpiegel de Rubenstein (born Poland 1903 died Chile 1964)
Rafael Goldchain Self Portrait as Naftuli Goldszajn(died Poland late 1800s) Rafael Goldchain Self Portrait as Dona Balbina Baumfeld Szpiegel de Rubenstein (born Poland 1903 died Chile 1964)
Rafael Goldchain Self Portrait as Naftuli Goldszajn(died Poland late 1800s) Rafael Goldchain Self Portrait as Reizl Goldszajn (born Poland 1905 died Argentina 1975)
Gillian Wearing, Self Portrait, 2000 Gillian Wearing is a UK artist In the photographic series Album (2003), Wearing employs makeup, props, and lighting to disguise herself in the visage of several of her relatives captured in old snapshots. – Guggenheim Museum
Gillian Wearing, Self Portrait at Three Years Old, 2004 Gillian Wearing, Self Portrait at 17 Years Old, 2004
Gillian Wearing, Self Portrait as my Mother Jean, 2003 Gillian Wearing, Self Portrait at 17 Years Old, 2004
Gillian Wearing, Self Portrait as my Mother Jean, 2003 Gillian Wearing, Self Portrait as my Father Brian, 2003
Annie Liebovitz, Meryl Streep, 1981 Annie Liebovitz is one of the leading portrait photographers in the world. Her portraits of actors, artists and politicians often plays with the idea of disguise and performance. The individual identity of the subject is often concealed behind a playful reference to their role as performers.
Annie Liebovitz, Demi Moore, 1992 Her work is highly conceptual, requiring much planning and preparation of makeup, costume, sets and locations.
Gustav Doré, Crossing the River Styx, 1861, from Danté’s Inferno
John GollingsMelbourne photographer John Gollings specializes in architectural photography.Compared to the ideals of modernist architectural photography, his work is ‘impure’, using baroque effects of lighting and colour, multiple exposure, performance, and digital trickery. John Gollings, Bolte Bridge, 1998
