PowerPoint for History of Photography class

1. Expressive Photography
When it’s not pictorial, not
documentary, and not commercial,
what is it?

2. Resources
Heilbrun Timeline of Art
• http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/intro/atr/atr.htm
• A chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the
history of art from around the world, as illustrated by the
Metropolitan Museum's collection.
The George Eastman House Museum of Photography
• http://www.geh.org.
Haus, Andreas and Frizot, Michael. “Figures of style: New Vision,
New photography.” in A New History of Photography, ed. by
Frizot, M. Chap 27, 457-467. KÖNEMAN, Koln, 1998.

3. “New Photography”
Stieglitz Pictorial background Moholy-Nagy Bauhaus
Minor White-Spiritual Callahan New Bauhaus-Inst. Design
↘
Laughlin-Spiritual Siskin-Institute of Design
⇓
F. Sommer-Self taught ⇔ Metzker-Institute of Design
↘
Meatyard-Self-taught
Gibson-US Navy & self-taught

4. Stieglitz -- Equivalent

5. Stieglitz -- Equivalent

6. Minor White – Devil’s Slide

7. Minor White -- Wall

8. New Bauhaus
Lazlo Moholy-Nagy

9. Moholy-Nagy
“Photogram”

10. Harry Callahan -- Eleanor

11. Harry Callahan
Lake Michigan

12. Aaron Siskind

13. Aaron Siskind

14. Ray Metzker – Man in the Canoe

15. Ray Metzker

16. Clarence John Laughlin
Brick Wall

17. Clarence John Laughlin
Hysteria

18. Frederick Sommer
Chicken

19. Frederick Sommer
Coyotes

20. Ralph Meatyard -- Mask

21. Ralph Meatyard -- Wings

22. Ralph Gibson

23. Ralph Gibson

24. Stieglitz
• The image captured not the thing, but the
feeling he had at the time he tripped the
shutter.
• Photography was not necessarily pictorial,
straight, or documentary; it could be
subjective and expressive.