February 17, 2016
Deadpan Style and
New Document
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Capturing a beautified moment dictated by the
photographer. Making work not in a decisive moment, instead it is dramatized.
Looks at basic functions of photography. Documents and records. Purely
documenting photography. An emotional detachment from the photographer. Cool,
detached, formal.
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August Sander
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First one who kind have started this style of
photography.
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Men without masks
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Portraiture prior to WWII, anthropological and
sociological. How there identity is defined.
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Does it clarify their lifestyles and
surroundings? Not really does not come across, just shows exacting clarity of
the subjects.
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Diane Arbus
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Photographed, freaks, abnormal, different.
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Symbolism that they all looked like specimens,
almost like materials. Importance of
photography relies on description. No need for manipulation or angles or
anything to distort the subject matter.
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1970s is when Deadpan really kicks off in
America, they are interested in the detached analytical use of the camera.
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Purely descriptive quality in the work
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Stylistic anonymity
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William Eggleston
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Famous for documenting the south of America,
every day objects and life, first started in B&W, he didn’t like how it
squwed the natural representation of life and went to color like we see. When
media was the only one using color for commercialism.
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Pungent color looks snapshot, unusual to see
this work in a museum setting. When romanticism was dominating the galleries.
Unemotional description of this place in America.
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“For me, photography is about extraction of the
ordinary and ordinary is absolutely fascinating to look at.”
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Bernd and Hilla Becher (collaborators) Hilla Bernd
school of art founders
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German structural compositions. Fascinated by
similar shapes and designs of industrial complexes done by anonymous. Shot straightforward
perspective in a grid format, to cause you to analyze them by comparison.
Cloudy detail for the most information gathered as possible.
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Mapping typography or photographing, showing
diversity of objects with the same purpose.
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Heightened sense of observation, scientific,
clever way. Only reason for these photographers is the factory descriptions of
these complexes.
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“Edward Weston”- the lens can see much more than
the eye can see.
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Andreas Gursky, disciple of Bernd
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Very detailed, even can see the titles of the
books, everything is in focus from foreground to background. Totally
observation photography. He uses digital technique. No manipulation.
Concentrated looking and observing space.
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About globalization and high tech communication.
Showing the human condition of technology. Pure sense of design and color.
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You see details of every persons living room
through the window
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Possibly inspired by Gerhard Richer, he started
out as a painter and was influenced by him.
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Making them massive, size of walls. Surrounded
by these hallucination of colors. 3.34 millions dollars.
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Thomas Struth
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Student of Hilla Bernd school of art
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Known for museum series. His work is too large
for galleries.
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Tourist in a sense but more intentional.
Criticizing and examining that when we go to a museum we are not really
interested in the art, we just pass by the art. We need to experience the work
in the art of the room we are at.
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Anonymous vantage point, could have been taken
by anyone. Collective cultural way of taking photos
Why are photographers taking images in this style? Write
about it in the blog.
Disconnected? Even though technology makes us closer
together. Why are we considering this form of art as art? Is he ridiculing our
behavior?
Take time to watch 5 broken cameras
Watch Andreas Gursky
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