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Photography Documentary photography Artistic photography Street photography Photojournalism Landscape photography Portraiture

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Consider the following elements of composition as you critique a photograph: foreground/background/middle-ground balance repetition lighting frame line exposure subject-matter axis/symmetry/asymmetry focal point angle of view

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Consider how the photograph illustrates the principles and elements of design what draws our eye to the image? how did the photographer think about form and content? consider the angle from which the photo is taken What is included in the frame? What is not included? How does the angle affect our understanding of the scene? examine the use of mass and shape What is being emphasized? What is being de-emphasized? what other choices has the photographer made in composing the photo? what can you tell about the attitude of the photographer towards the subjects of the picture?

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Jacob Riis 1849-1914 America's first journalist-photographer known at the turn of the century as the "Emancipator of the Slums" because of his work on behalf of the urban poor brutal documentation of sweatshops, disease-ridden tenements, and overcrowded schools aroused public indignation and helped effect significant reform in housing, education, and child-labor laws no real artistic intent "I came to take up photography... not exactly as a pastime. It was never that for me. I had to use it, and beyond that I never went..

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Bandit's Roost, 59 1/2 Mulberry Street

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Home of an Italian Rag picker 1888

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Five Cents Lodging, Bayard Street 1889

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Basement of a Pub in Mulberry-Bend at 3:00 am

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A Black-and-Tan Dive in "Africa"

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Blind Beggar

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A downtown "Morgue" (unlicensed saloon)

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Police Station Lodger, A Plank for a Bed

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Women's Lodging Room in the West 47th Street

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Men's Lodging Room in the West 47th Street

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Timothy O'Sullivan 1840-1882 documented battlefields of Civil War little is known of his life career covered barely two decades but produced one of the major bodies of photographic work in 19th century America originally worked for Matthew Brady

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A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania July, 1863

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Group of Confederate Prisoners at Fairfax Court-House, Virginia

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General Grant and his General Staff

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Dorothea Lange 1895-1965 best known for her Depression-era work for the New Deals Farm Security Administration her photographs humanized the tragic consequences of the Great Depression and profoundly influenced the development of documentary photography

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I saw and approached the hungry and desperate mother, as if drawn by a magnet. I do not remember how I explained my presence or my camera to her, but I do remember she asked me no questions. I made five exposures, working closer and closer from the same direction. I did not ask her name or her history. She told me her age, that she was thirty-two. She said that they had been living on frozen vegetables from the surrounding fields, and birds that the children killed. She had just sold the tires from her car to buy food. There she sat in that lean-to tent with her children huddled around her, and seemed to know that my pictures might help her, and so she helped me. There was a sort of equality about it.

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Migrant Mother

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Ditched, Stalled and Stranded

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Plantation Overseer and His Field Hands

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Back

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Riverbank Gas Station

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Margaret Bourke-White 1904-1971 first female war correspondent first woman to be allowed to work in combat zones during World War II first female photojournalist for Life magazine

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A DC4 Flying Over New York City

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Fort Peck Dam (1 st cover of Life Magazine)

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Gandhi

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Buchenwald

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Germans See Buchenwald

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Gold Miners, South Africa

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Flood Victim Paddling a Boat Made of Washtubs, Louisville, KY

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Hats in the Garment District

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Moscow Bombing 1941

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Julia Margaret Cameron 1815-1879 Cameron's photographs are notable for the extreme intimacy and psychological intensity these effects achieved by the use of extreme close-up, suppression of detail (sometimes accompanied by peripheral blurring), and dramatic lighting was attempting to convey the inner spirit

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Sadness

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The Echo

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Mariana "She said I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead"

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Carleton Watkins 1829-1916 In the last third of the 19th c. one of America's foremost landscape photographers known primarily for his artistic panoramas of Yosemite and other wilderness areas photographed throughout the West on field expeditions, carrying huge cameras and other equipment also made many memorable images of the rapid development of San Francisco

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Coast View Number One

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The Wreck of the Viscata

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Washington Column, 2052 ft., Yosemite

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Alcatraz, from North Point

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The Golden Gate from Telegraph Hill

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Alfred Stieglitz 1864 - 1946 instrumental over his fifty-year career in making photography an acceptable art form alongside painting and sculpture also known for his marriage to painter Georgia OKeeffe was insistent that "photographs look like photographs," so that the medium of photography would be considered with its own aesthetic credo and and be defined as a fine art for the first time

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Winter On Fifth Avenue

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Icy Night

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Spring Showers

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From the Back-Window

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Georgia OKeeffe

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Gordon Parks 1912 - 2006 Groundbreaking African-American photographer, musician, poet, novelist, journalist & film director best remembered for his photo essays for Life magazine and as the director of the 1971 film Shaft said that freedom was the theme of all of his work

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American Gothic

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Red Jackson and Herbie Levy Study Wounds of Slain Gang Member Maurice Gaines

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Chain Gang

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Ella Watson and her Grandchildren

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Drugstore Cowboys, Blind River, Ontario

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Muhammed Ali in Training

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Norman Jr. Reading in Bed

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Ansel Adams 1902-1984 best known for his black and white photographs of California's Yosemite Valley credited with creating the zone system, a technique which allows photographers to translate the light they see into specific densities on negatives and paper, thus giving them better control over finished photographs, so they have a systematic method of precisely defining the relationship between the way they see the photographic subject and the results they achieve in their finished works also pioneered the idea of visualization of the finished print based upon the measured light values in the scene being photographed

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Bridal Veil Fall, Yosemite Valley

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Nevada Fall, Yosemite

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Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico

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Tree

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Mount McKinley, Denali National Park, Alaska

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Aspens

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Moon and Half Dome

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Robert Doisneau 1912 - 1944 noted for his frank and often humorous depictions of Parisian street life. Chance is the one thing you can't buy. You have to pay for it and you have to pay for it with your life, spending a lot of time, you pay for it with time, not the wasting of time but the spending of time.

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Kiss at the Hotel de Ville

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Inky child

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Sunday Morning in Arcueil

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Sidelong Glance

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Hell

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Picasso and the Loaves

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Down to the Factory

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Pipi Pigeon

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A Musician

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Henri Cartier-Bresson 1908-2004 street photography sought the decisive moment To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of forms that give that event its proper expression. "Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever."

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Behind the Gare St. Lazare

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Gold Distribution Shanghai

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Man Ray 1890-1976 "I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions." master of experimental and fashion photography also a painter, a filmmaker, a poet, an essayist, a philosopher, and a leader of American modernism interest in minimalism and abstraction carried over to Man Ray's experiments with what he termed "rayographs: made by placing a three- dimensional object or series of objects on top of a piece of photographic paper and exposing it to light

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Le Violin

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Tears

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Noire et Blanche

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