MPS 401 Lecture 10: History of Photography
18 Jan 2019
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Important in art, doc and activist image making: photography is one of the most important effective and affective ways. Eliot porter, lichen on brown rock, sugar loaf, barred islands, maine, 1969: nature photographer, looking at small, intimate, national phenomenon, scientist first, then became a photographer. The bechers, pitheads, 1974: new approach to environmental photography (neutral, human development taking over the land. Robert and shana parke harisson, burn season, 2003: threat of fire, he as the white, male protagonist has all the water, he has the power to put it out. Jonathon long broken trees, 2002: evoke devastation of the forest, different powerful aesthetic approaches. 9825-5, 2001-2002: aerial photo of a dried river bed, reference to abstract expressionisms but is a doc image. John pfahl bethlehem, 1988: critiqued for aestheticizing pollution. Is it meant to be art or documentary: art allows the aesthetization of topics, doc doesn"t.
