FAH291H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Alvin Langdon Coburn, Social Documentary Photography, Lillian Moller Gilbreth
26 Oct 2016
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Photography records the world in such an exact manner so painting is greed up to become abstract and non-representational. This is the logic od cubism, futurism, vorticism. Taken up by avant-garde photographers in this period: how they expressed experimental ideas in their images. Aesthetic formalism: an emphasis on form over content and the idea that the appreciation of pure form could transcend difference. Duchamp, nude descending staircase: did not lead to a more general acceptance of the avant-garde in north america. Stieglitz and his camera work became more open to avant-garde: the steerage from camera work no. 34. The gangway marks a division of different classes. Most famous american photography but the irony lies in the fact that is is taken on a steamship sailing for europe. Wire wheels, new york: shares view of beauty of technology. Incorporate geometric concerns of abstract art into its draamtic representation of city life.
