Master Photographers of the 1920s, 1930s & 1940s
Edward Weston (1886 – 1958)
Shell, 1927 Pepper No. 30, 1930 Nude, 1936
§ Has been called “one of the most _____________________________________ American photographers”
§ Weston photographed a wide variety of subjects, including __________________________ ___________________________
§ Focused on the people and places of the _______________________
§ Born in Chicago and moved to California at age 21, Weston knew he wanted to be a photographer from an early age and attended the Illinois School of Photography
§ Opened his own studio in 1911, taking portraits of children and friends
§ His early work was part of a photography movement called ___________________, in which images were _________________ their images to make them look more _______________
§ Images often ________________________, were printed in colours other than black & white, and had visible brushstrokes or other ____________________________
§ He moved to _____________ from 1923 to 1927 and the different culture and scenery forced him to __________________________________
§ He moved away from pictoralism and embraced _______________
§ “The camera should be used for a recording of ________, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself…I feel definite in the belief that the approach to photography is through realism”
§ Weston is known for many of the ____________________ he took throughout the 1920s and 1930s, which often isolated specific body parts and reduced the human figure down to its __________________
§ Weston developed a similar interest in the ____________ forms of fruits, ______________, rocks, and __________________
§ In 1937, Weston was the ____________________________ to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship
§ Weston died at _________ in Big Sur, California
Dorothea Lange (1895 – 1965)
§ An influential American _________________ photographer and _________________________, Lange was best known for her Depression-era work for the US government
§ Lange's photographs _______________ the consequences of the __________________________
§ Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, Lange was educated in photography at Columbia University in New York City
§ She moved to San Francisco in 1918 and opened a successful _________________________ the following year
§ When the Great Depression began in ________, Lange turned her camera lens from the ____________________________
§ Lange’s photos of unemployed and homeless people led to her employment with the federal Farm Security Administration
§ From 1935 to 1939, Lange documented sharecroppers, displaced _________________________, and migrant workers
§ Distributed free to newspapers across the country, Lange’s images became __________________________
§ Her ___________________________ is titled "Migrant Mother“
§ Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, she covered the ___________________________________________________
§ In 1945, Lange was invited to ___________________________ at the California School of Fine Arts
§ In 1952, she co-founded the photographic magazine _______________
§ Lange died of ___________ on October 11, 1965 in San Francisco, California at __________
Gordon Parks (1912 – 2006)
§ Parks was the first _______________________ staff photographer for _____________________ and later the first African-American to direct a major _______________________
§ He is known for his striking _____________ photography
§ Parks was born in Fort Scott, Kansas and attended a segregated elementary school
§ At the age of 25, he was struck by photographs of migrant workers in a magazine and bought his ________________________
§ The photography clerks who developed Parks' _________________________, applauded his work and prompted him to _________________ as a fashion photographer
§ Parks moved to Chicago in 1940, where he began a _________________________ and specialized in photographs of _________________________
§ In 1944, he became a freelance fashion photographer for ___________ and developed a distinctive style, often photographing his models in ____________, or ______________________
§ His photographs seemed like he caught his subjects off-guard and mid-action
§ Parks composed his images __________________, as if they were part of a _________________
§ In 1971, Parks ________________ the major hit film ___________
§ He died of cancer at the _______________ while living in Manhattan