CAS AH 295 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Brett Weston, Darkroom, Precisionism
3 Apr 2016
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Inspired by precisionism - american identity through art movement. Not a high level of detail, not very intricate. Sheeler - copied many of his paintings from photographs. Machine forms, has traits of precisionism and cubism. Precisionist photographers - contact printing resulted in detailed, sharp looking edges, sharp image. Characterized by sharp-focused and carefully framed images seen through a particularly. Named group after aperture setting on camera. Van dyke started a gallery called 683. Wanted to present best in contemporary photography of the west. Modernist compositions interested in form, texture, and shape. Did not like to crop or manipulate photos. Photographed for leaves of grass, went around country photographing. Became too ill to do darkroom work, had sons do work. Extreme close ups of plants and flowers focusing on form. Zoning process of printing to emphasize shadows. Met people in stieglitz"s circle, wanted to have work shown in his gallery.
