-contemporary stage approach to photography in documentary form
-captures beautified moment staged by photographers, Kodak moment, dramatized
-major focus is basic functions of photography, captures documents
-daguerreotype photography focused on functionality of camera and shot people straight on
-that was a certain emotional disconnect from the photographer
-August Sander: on of the first photographers of this type, captured portraits of people
-had democratic and sociological connotations in his portraits of who the people were
-portraits shot with minimal lighting and straight on
-Diane Arbus: considered influential in the 60's, weirdness surrounded her subjects
-topography: the accurate and detailed description of a place, a kind of mapping of the surface
-Robert Adams: stylish neutral landscape, photos could have been done by anyone
-photographs were purely documentary, didn't have human emotion
-William Eggleston: the only commercial photographer using color, looked snapshot-like
-he believed in extracting the ordinary and make it look fascinating
-Bernd and Hilla Becher: founded school of arts from 70's-2000's
-lots of people followed their style of documenting similarity in landscape and buildings
-put buildings in grid format so you could compare all of them structurally
-mapping was used to show diversity of objects
-Andreas Gursky: photographing large architectural structures, everything in focus, from foreground to background, patterns in photographs
-tried to make photographs as large as a painting, one photograph sold for over 3 million
-Thomas Struth: huge photographs, only shown in museums, photographs of inside architectural buildings, looks tutorist-like but intentional
-Do you think this type of style represent how we feel disconnected from each other?
I think that we have researched the point where everyone is a photographer in some sense or another, and we've gotten to the point where nothing is very original or special anymore.
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