Typologies in photography are a suite of images around one thing, documenting a subject and giving the facts.
2. What was “The Face of the Times”?
'The Fact of the Times' were photographs shot by August Sander in the 1920's where he took people and fitted them into a frame exactly how they wanted to be seen but not revealing anything. His subjects live through the chaos of the war in germany.
3. Which magazine did Rodchenko design?
Rodchenko designed 'USSR in construction' a magazine showcasing the political propaganda and acheivements for the Soviet system, it was a photo-montage with cutting-edge graphics.
4. What is photo-montage?
A photo-montage is a composition of many photographs showing them for what they really are, collecting, cutting and sticking bits of them together to create something else.
5. Why did Eugene Atget use albumen prints in the 1920’s?
He used these prints as he knew exactly how to use it and didn't know how to use modern techniques. However he was still a successful commercial photographer.
6. What is solarisation and how was it discovered?
It's the process of scattering objects onto photographic paper in the dark room, exposing them and developing it with no camera involved. However, with portraits, solarisation leaves people looking metallic and aluminum.
It's the process of scattering objects onto photographic paper in the dark room, exposing them and developing it with no camera involved. However, with portraits, solarisation leaves people looking metallic and aluminum.
7. What was the relationship between Bernice Abbott and Eugene Atget?
They met through Man-Ray and Bernice Abboot became the largest collector of Euegen's work, bring over 5000 of his negatives to America and popularizing them.
8. Why was Walker Evans fired from the FSA?
He was fired because rather than documentating true facts of American life he rearranged the truth and created untrue documents and made them art. So in 1937 he was fired.
