MPC 125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 45: Aaron Siskind, Charis Wilson, Social Documentary Photography
Document Summary
The russian filmmaker, eisenstein, also went to mexico, and made a film there. Film: tina in mexico, david mcintosh, 76 min. This film contrasts weston"s cool abstraction (unfavourably) with tina modotti"s more human social documentary photography. In 1922 weston made his seminal photographs of the. Armco steelworks in ohio: his break with pictorialism is evident in the simplicity and clarity of his sharply focused image of a row of smokestacks. Alongside his nude portraiture - which later included a large body of work on his wife, charis wilson - weston embarked on a period of sustained work on the american. West in the 1930s, enabled by the award of a guggenheim grant (the first ever to be awarded to a photographer). He continued to concentrate on broad, dramatic landscapes towards the end of his life and took his last photographs at point lobos in 1948. Post war us was marked a transition in culture.
