Questions & Answers
What are Typologies?
The first typology made by Anna Atkins catalogue of algae, appeared just 4 years after the mediums invention. Just after 10 years photography was used record the criminal underworld, cataloged with police mug shots. Donavan Whiley photographs watch towers, from the same point of view, with the same lighting and the same framing. There has to be a direct view to the object, it’s a discipline in photography, it creates just the facts and nothing else. Can see clearer without shadows and sunlight.
What was “The Face of the Times”?
August Saunder, did a typology of humans, this is when he became a modernist and published a selection of his portraits under the name ‘The Face of the Times’. He collected people and fitted them into a frame, people occupied the same amount of space in each photograph, but there were differences for each person. He used a system of several social types, for example the grouping of the farmers, then sub categories e.g. young farmers. It shows you how people want to be seen, not what is actually going on, but there is hints. A world that is pregnant with things that cant be spoken of, the chaos of German after WW1.
Which magazine did Rodchenko design?
He designed photography magazine called, USSR en construction, it glorified the achievements of the soviet union. He took photographs with Leica, with freedom, not conventional photography. He thought that we needed to banish ‘belly button’ photography, he tried to make very apparent that he was photographing the world differently.
What is photo-montage?
A graphic technique that took its cue from cinema montage. Rodchenko treated photographs as royal footage, suppressing their individuality, collectivizing their energies. Cutting, pasting, retouching and re-photographing them, he was creating dizzying scenes from the future. Photo-montage also shows up photographs for what they really are, mute documents whose meaning remains fluid.
Why did Eugene Atget use albumen prints in the 1920’s?
Prints that came out in the sunshine, and were started to be used in the 1851. People tried to get him to use modern materials, and he told them he didn’t know how to do that.
What is solarisation and how was it discovered?
Man Ray discovered solarisation through placing object in a darkroom on photographic paper and exposing it briefly to create interesting patterns on the paper, this happened in the late 1920s in the period of dada and surrealism. Through solarisation he makes people look as though their faces look like they’re made out of aluminum, they become super people, slightly inhuman, slightly robotic.
What was the relationship between Bernice Abbott and Eugene Atget?
Bernice Abbott was a young American photographer and one of Man Ray’s assistants. Abbott photographed Atget as a living, breathing found object in 1927, she preferred the profile photograph, because he looks like an old man. Abbott also brought 5000 of Atget’s negatives to America.
Why was Walker Evans fired from the FSA?
In 1935 he was commission to produce propaganda images for the Farms Security Agency, set up to ease the affects of depression in rural America. They were there to take the photographs for the Government, to support the aid methods, and to make the Government look good, not only the government but the recipients of relief. Evans hated the fact that documentary photography was ‘suppose’ to show the truths and was a social agent. He instead called his work documentary style and documentary aesthetic, to make the point it just looks like the facts, it in fact isn’t. He readily molded the world to his requirement, but he could not mold it to the requirements of the FSA, and in 1937 he was sacked.
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