History of photography by Annalise Saldivar https://padlet.com/as5612/awjobqfkoxm87ie Straight Photography 1900-1999 en-us 2020-12-02 21:05:36 UTC 2025-03-05 15:31:03 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4f8.png Paul Strand (1890-1976) as5612 https://padlet.com/as5612/awjobqfkoxm87ie/wish/985646325 Paul Strand was an American photographer and filmmaker who, along with fellow photographers like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, helped establish photography as an art form in the 20th century.]]> 2020-12-03 20:43:58 UTC https://padlet.com/as5612/awjobqfkoxm87ie/wish/985646325 Straight Photography as5612 https://padlet.com/as5612/awjobqfkoxm87ie/wish/985675671 Straight photography refers to photography that attempts to depict a scene or subject in sharp focus and detail. This art movement originated as early as 1904,  the term was used by critic Sadakichi Hartmann in the magazine Camera Work, and later promoted by its editor, Alfred Stiegliz, as a more pure form of photography than Pictorialism. Although some people see this movement as lack of manipulation, straight photographers in fact applied many common darkroom techniques to enhance the appearance of their prints.



  


]]> 2020-12-03 20:52:47 UTC https://padlet.com/as5612/awjobqfkoxm87ie/wish/985675671 Abstraction(1916) as5612 https://padlet.com/as5612/awjobqfkoxm87ie/wish/985717706 By the end of World War I, Straight photography became standard practice in the fields of advertising, design, and journalism in the United States. A commercialized Straight photography went hand-in-hand with the advent of the illustrated magazines that maximized photography for popular influence.]]> 2020-12-03 21:05:51 UTC https://padlet.com/as5612/awjobqfkoxm87ie/wish/985717706 Wire Wheel (1917) as5612 https://padlet.com/as5612/awjobqfkoxm87ie/wish/989304676 Photo by Alfred Stieglitz ]]> 2020-12-04 21:20:13 UTC https://padlet.com/as5612/awjobqfkoxm87ie/wish/989304676 Alfred Stieglitz ( 1864-1946) as5612 https://padlet.com/as5612/awjobqfkoxm87ie/wish/989312349 Alfred Stieglitz along with Paul strand pioneered the straight Photography movement. was an American photographer and modern art promoter who was instrumental over his fifty-year career in making photography an accepted art form. In addition to his photography, Stieglitz was known for the New York art galleries that he ran in the early part of the 20th century, where he introduced many avant-garde European artists to the U.S. ]]> 2020-12-04 21:23:26 UTC https://padlet.com/as5612/awjobqfkoxm87ie/wish/989312349 The Steerage as5612 https://padlet.com/as5612/awjobqfkoxm87ie/wish/989323300 In 1907 he was sailing to Europe, 4x5 Speed Graflex in tow, when he set off from the first-class deck and came upon the huddled masses in the ship’s steerage. There, the shawled and swathed were crammed together on the compact lower deck, the skewed geometry of the ship emphasizing their claustrophobic accommodations and visually segregating them from those on the upper deck.]]> 2020-12-04 21:28:24 UTC https://padlet.com/as5612/awjobqfkoxm87ie/wish/989323300 Blind Woman 1916 as5612 https://padlet.com/as5612/awjobqfkoxm87ie/wish/1018024083 Photo by Paul Strand ]]> 2020-12-14 21:40:09 UTC https://padlet.com/as5612/awjobqfkoxm87ie/wish/1018024083 Percé Beach, Gaspé, Québec(1929) as5612 https://padlet.com/as5612/awjobqfkoxm87ie/wish/1018103093 Strand used paper with the cold blue tones that had matched his experience on the Percé Beach shoot. In keeping with his fascination of 'how spaces are filled', moreover, Strand was of a mind that a balance of weight and air in the photograph was the most important compositional factor. The weight is created by dark tones in rocks, rooves and boats; the idea of air being expressed by the light in the sky and as it is reflected on the surface of the sea. When one looks for evidence of Strand's commitment to represent the lives of ordinary people, meanwhile, we find a workers' narrative in the bottom foreground of the frame. We see small figures, this time 'dwarfed' by the forces of nature (rather than man-made architecture), grappling with a large fishing boat. It is unclear if the fishermen are about to set sail, or if they are preparing to moor their vessel, but the spectator is left in little doubt of its importance to their lives and livelihoods.]]> 2020-12-14 22:13:45 UTC https://padlet.com/as5612/awjobqfkoxm87ie/wish/1018103093 The Family, Luzzara, Italy, 1953 as5612 https://padlet.com/as5612/awjobqfkoxm87ie/wish/1018125186 In the early 1950s Paul Strand spent six weeks in the rural northern Italian town of Luzzara, located on the Po River. He traveled the countryside with local townsman Valentino Lusetti, whose family Strand photographed arranged across the front of their family home. This group portrait includes Valentino's widowed mother Anna, standing with a solemn expression in the darkened doorway, and four of his brothers: Bruno, Guerrino, Afro, and Nino, none of whom look directly at the camera.  ]]> 2020-12-14 22:23:51 UTC https://padlet.com/as5612/awjobqfkoxm87ie/wish/1018125186 “New York City, 7 Bleecker Street,” September, 1993. as5612 https://padlet.com/as5612/awjobqfkoxm87ie/wish/1018732802 Photo by Robert Frank ]]> 2020-12-15 03:40:53 UTC https://padlet.com/as5612/awjobqfkoxm87ie/wish/1018732802 Kandinsky 1937 as5612 https://padlet.com/as5612/awjobqfkoxm87ie/wish/1018740612 In the 1930s, Paul Outerbridge was one of the leading advertising photographers in New York, certainly among the best paid. He gave himself absolute mastery of the sculptural photography of the object-shot which derived its techniques from nineteenth-century studio perfection and its aesthetics from European modernism and surrealism.]]> 2020-12-15 03:45:42 UTC https://padlet.com/as5612/awjobqfkoxm87ie/wish/1018740612 Studio Promotion Photograph (1986) as5612 https://padlet.com/as5612/awjobqfkoxm87ie/wish/1018816980 Photo by Dennis Manarchy]]> 2020-12-15 04:42:23 UTC https://padlet.com/as5612/awjobqfkoxm87ie/wish/1018816980 Parade Hoboken, New Jersey, 1955 as5612 https://padlet.com/as5612/awjobqfkoxm87ie/wish/1018825989 Photo by Robert Frank ]]> 2020-12-15 04:48:26 UTC https://padlet.com/as5612/awjobqfkoxm87ie/wish/1018825989 Trolly – New Orleans, 1955 as5612 https://padlet.com/as5612/awjobqfkoxm87ie/wish/1018834333  American Photographer Robert Frank spent years traveling through the U.S.A. picturing his own image of the American society. His famous picture of a bus depicts the segregation still intact in the 1950s in America. The facial expression of the white boy and black man are very alike, while the woman in the front almost snobbishly looks at the photographer. This is one of the most famous ]]> 2020-12-15 04:54:05 UTC https://padlet.com/as5612/awjobqfkoxm87ie/wish/1018834333