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Photography. The Photographic Record. MoMA Photography Theme. Questions. How can photography act as an archive of personal and cultural history?. MoMA Photography Theme. What do these portraits have in common? Note the style, titles, and subjects. August Sander. Bohemians. 1925.
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The Photographic Record MoMA Photography Theme
Questions How can photography act as an archive of personal and cultural history? MoMA Photography Theme
What do these portraits have in common? Note the style, titles, and subjects. August Sander. Bohemians. 1925 August Sander. Member of Parliament, Democrat. 1927 August Sander. Viennese Jockey. 1929 MoMA Photography Theme
What similarities and differences do you find in these photos by Eugène Atget? Eugène Atget. Rue Lanneau. 1925 Eugène Atget. Courtyard, 22 rue Quincampoix. 1912 Eugène Atget. Cabaret de L’Enfer, Boulevard de Clichy. 1910 Eugène Atget. Cour, 7 rue de Valence. 1922 MoMA Photography Theme
Let’s compare the work of Atget and Sander. How are they similar? How are they different? Eugène Atget. Cabaret de L’Enfer, Boulevard de Clichy 53. 1910 August Sander. Viennese Jockey. 1929 MoMA Photography Theme
What questions do these photographs raise? Carrie Mae Weems. Images 13-15 from the series From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried. 1995 MoMA Photography Theme
What is happening in these images? Walid Raad. My Neck Is Thinner Than a Hair: Engines. 1996–2004 MoMA Photography Theme
Let’s compare these series by Weems and Raad. Walid Raad. My Neck Is Thinner Than a Hair: Engines. 1996–2004 Carrie Mae Weems. Image 14 from the series From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried. 1995 MoMA Photography Theme