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American Photography: A Century of Images
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DIRECTIONS: Explain each topic listed below. You may use bullet points.
1.)1900 – Kodak’s Brownie:
2. Halftone printing:______
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3. National Geographic Magazine:______
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4. Edward Curtis NativeAmericans:______
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______ 5.Alfred Steiglitz:___is photography really art?______
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6. Lewis Hine – Child Labor photos: ______
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7. Paul Strand – Straight Photography:______
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8. Edward Weston – Straight Photography: ______
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9. World War I – Hidden Truth: ______
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10. Tabloids! – 1918: How did they change the newspaper?
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11.Celebrity -–Babe ruth: How did celebrity change with him?
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15. 1920-
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12. Murray Becker – Hindenburg – 1937:______
13. Weegee – Photojournalist:______
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14. Life Magazine – The Photo Essay – 1936:______
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15. Dorthea Lange – Migrant Mother – 1937:______
16. Gordon Parks – Ella Watson – “American Gothic”:______
______17. Ansel Adams – ______
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18. World War II: ______war began 12/-7/-1941
Japanese singled out as objects of hatred after pearl harbor. Evacuation of Japanese Americans in west to the interior. Internment camps.
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19. Natalie Nickerson – “demonizing the enemy”:______
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20. Betty Grable – “Pin-up Girl”:______
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21. Robert Capa – D-day & Falling Soldier:____There in the action on D Day. In rush to print in darkl room all ruined except for 3 rolls. That’s what was printed.______
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22. Iwo Jima – Joe Rosenthal:_____flag raising on mt. surabachi. Picture says “victory”. In the US within a day and ahlf it was shot. Became instant icon. Said to mark the impact of new deal in way we understood the war. United people in US. ______
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23. Evidence – Holocaust:____pictures were unbelievable. Unthinkable that a whole people had been exterminated pictures were proof of the inspeakable crimes. Photographer said camera was a barrier between her and the atrocoties. Marka turning point in human consciousness. Workd never be the same. ______
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– 1945 –
24. Family of Man – 1955 – Edward Steichen – MOMA:_____jan. 24 1955. Exhibiyion at MOMA showing “mankind is one”. Photos from around the world. Marriage, birth, love, shelter, poverty. Came after the war. Made the point that families all over the world needed the same thing. Universal truths for family. Exhibit toured the contyr and the world. Became the most widely seen colloction of images in the history of photography. Celebrated a humanism, all people alike, in their differences express the beauty of what it is to be human. Father teaching son to hunt, Cartier bresson’s women in middle east looking off to distance, couple having sex, etc. ______
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29. Fashion Photography – Richard Avedon:______
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15. Robert Frank:______
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______26. Danny Lyon – Civil Rights – 1960’s:______
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27.Vietnam:______Quang Duo – Malcolm Browne – 1963:______
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28. .Execution of Viet Cong Guerrilla – Eddie Adams – 1968:______
29. Napalm Strike – Nick Ut – 1972:______
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30. Kent State – John Filo – 1970:______
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31. Earthrise – William Anders Apollo8:______
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32. David Turnley – War in Iraq – 1990’s:______
33. Manipulating the image: _____OJ Simpson :
Time or Newsweek altered photo of OJ to give him dark unshaven look.
Digital Age:
Andy Warhol and Robert Rauchenberg. What do photographs mean? Using them in combination with paint and gesture of the hand in their art. Cindy Sherman self portrsits, ______did figurines of dolls playing house