MPS 301 Lecture Notes - Social Documentary Photography, Birds Eye View, Straight Photography
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Large format straight photography 4x5 & 8x10. One of the first photographers to use the lieca camera. Plate must be changed for every shot. Small camera lead to the snap shot aesthetic due to the convenience of carrying such a small camera. The image of the soldier seems to be about the relationship of the husband leaving his wife and the distress of the child in her arms. Left behind any of his negative and did not print them till the 1960-70 s. Image to the right interested the surrealist due to the juxtaposition of the train above the man carrying the package within the street. 1933 was hired by a girly magazine . Photographed a naked female with a circus mirror. Cortez was also part of the new photography movement. Pictures that view the mundane at different and more drastic angles (ritichanko angles) Lois a town is photographed from a birds eye view.
