This last part of ITAP consisted in the music videos “Only you” by Portishead and “All is full of love” by Bjork, both the work of director Chris Cunningham.
The Genius of Moving Image Part I
For this series of documentaries we had several videos and films.
This one is documentary of filmmaker Sam Taylor Wood.
The Genius of Moving Image Part II
The second part of the genius of moving image is from a documentary film called “Visions Of Light, The Art Of Cinematography” by Arnold Glassman.
Another one bites the dust…
…actually three.
Kodak has announced the discontinuation of three of it’s slide films: Ektachrome E100G, E100VS and ELITE Chrome Extra Color.
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The Genius of Photography Part II
T1: What are Typologies?
Typologies are systematic accurate records of people and things.
T2: What was the “Face of the times”?
The “Face of the times” was a selection of portraits published by August Sander in 1929.
T3: Which magazine did Rodchenko design?
Rodchenko designed “USSR in construction”.
T4: What is photo-montage?
Photo-montage was the process of cutting, pasting and retouching photos and artwork together.
T5: Why did Eugene Atget use albumen prints in the 1920’s?
Eugene Atget used albumen prints because he did not know how to use modern techniques.
T6: What is solarisation and how was it discovered?
Solarisation is a photographic process that consists in a short exposure during the print development and was discovered by accident.
T7: What was the relationship between Bernice Abbott and Eugene Atget?
Bernice Abbot was Eugene Atget’s assistant.
T8: Why was Walker Evans fired from the FSA?
Walker Evans was fired because he couldn’t link his own vision with the propaganda display of the FSA.
The Genius of Photography Part III
T1: What is described as “One of the most familiar concepts in photography”?
This concept is called “the Decisive moment”.
T2: Should you trust a photograph?
“It was probably a huge mistake from the beginning”, according to Philosopher Arthur C. Danto.
T3: What was revolutionary about the Leica in 1925?
The Leica was revolutionary for it’s period because of it’s silent and compact body, enabling photographers to take images that would otherwise have been impossible with view cameras.
T4: What did George Bernard Shaw say about all the paintings of Christ?
George Bernard Shaw said that he would give all the paintings of Christ for one single snapshot.
T5: Why were Tony Vaccaros’ negatives destroyed by the army censors?
The negatives were destroyed because they contained images of dead soldiers.
T6: Who was Henryk Ross and what was his job?
Henryk Ross was a polish jew photographer and had the job of documenting the production of goods at a polish nazi ghetto.
T7: Which show was a “sticking plaster for the wounds of the war”, how many people saw it and what “cliché” did it end on?
The show was called “The family of man” and had over 9 million visitors. It concluded with a picture made by W. Eugene Smith’s of his children walking into the light of his garden.
T8: Why did Joel Meyerowitz photograph ground zero in colour?
Joel Meyerowitz photographed in colour because he didn’t want to keep the event as a tragedy.
The Genius of Photography IV
T1: Why did Garry Winogrand take photographs?
He took photographs to “see what the world looked like, photographed”
T2: Why did “citizens evolve from blurs to solid flesh”?
As technology evolved, short exposures became possible and people moving in the streets ceased to be simply blurred.
T3: What was/is the “much misunderstood theory”?
The decisive moment.
T4: Who was the godfather of street photography in the USA?
Gary Winogrand.
T5: Who was Paul Martin and what did he do?
Paul Martin was a 19th century photographer who took revealing pictures of the English seaside.
T6: Who said “When I was growing up photographers were either nerds or pornographers”?
Photographer Ed Ruscha.
T7: Why does William Eggleston photograph in colour?
William Eggleston photographed in colour for more realistic images.
T8: What is William Eggleston about?
William Eggleston is about “photographing life today”.
The Genius of Photography Part V
T1: Who said “ The camera gave me the license to strip away what you want people to know about you, to reveal what you can’t help people knowing about you”, and when was it said?
Diane Arbus.
T2: Do photographers tend to prey on vulnerable people?
In recent years, this has been a debate.
T3: Who is Colin Wood?
olid Wood is a man who, as a child, was the subject of one of Diane Arbus’s photographs.
T4: Why do you think Diane Arbus committed suicide?
In my opinion, Diane Arbus commited suicide because, whatever she had in mind to achieve and record, she realised it was impossible.
T5: Why and how did Larry Clark shoot “Tulsa”?
Larry Clark shot “Tulsa” by being of his subject and because he wanted to record his own life.
T6: Try to explain the concept of “confessional photography”, and what is the “impolite genre”?
“Confessional photography” is all about catching the glimpse of someone’s personality in one photograph. The “impolite genre” is a “nasty thing that no one wants to know about”, such as Larry Clarks album, Tulsa, of his friends taking drugs and having fun.
T7: What will Araki not photograph, and why?
Araki only shoots certain things he wants to remember later.
T8: What is the premise of Postmodernism?
The premise of Postmodernism is that we now live in a culture so saturated with media imagery of how people live that our idea of how we live is made up of that imagery.
The Genius of Photography Part VI
T1: How many photographs are taken in a year?
Around 80 billion.
T2: What is Gregory Crewdsons modus operandi?
Gregory Crewdsons works by using film props, actors and assistants in order to get a perfect image out of several photographs taken at different times and digitally combined.
T3: Which prints command the highest price & what are they called?
The most expensive prints are the ones made by the photographers themselves near the time the photograph was taken. They are called vintage prints.
T4: What is a Fake photograph? Give an example and explain how & why it is fake.
A fake photograph is a print made from the negative by someone else than the photographer. Such an example is Luis Heyne’s “Powerhouse mechanic”.
T5: Who is Li Zhensheng and what is he famous for?
Li Zhensheng is a photojournalist famous for he’s images of communist China.
T6: What is the photographers “holy of holies”?
Magnum Photo Agency.
T7: How does Ben Lewis see Jeff Walls photography?
Ben Lewis sees Jeff Walls’s photographs as a return to 19th century painting.
T8: Which famous photograph was taken by “Frank Mustard”?
He took Camille Silvie’s “River in France” photograph.
The Genius of Photography Part I
This term our ITAP lectures consisted of a series of documentaries about both photography and moving-image. At the end of each one we asked to complete several tasks related to each of the documentaries.
T1: What is photography’s “true genius”?
Photography’s “true genius” is it’s ability to show the secret strangeness that lies behind the world of appearances.
T2: Name a proto-photographer.
One of the first proto-photographers was Henry Fox Talbot.
T3: In the 19th century, what term was associated with the daguerreotype?
The daguerreotype was also called a mirror with a memory.
T4: What is the vernacular?
The vernacular is a genre of photography that has other purposes than art (journalistic, medical, scientific, etc).
T5: How do you “Fix the shadows”?
“Fixing the shadows” meant stopping the image from exposing by using a certain chemistry.
T6: What is the “carte de visite”?
“The carte de visite” was a type of photography that meant taking 8 different pictures of a person in rapid sequence that were later used to promote certain businesses throughout the world.
T7: Who was Nadar and why was he so successful?
Nadar was a French-19th century photographer, famous for his authentic and natural portraits of celebrities.
T8: What is pictorialism?
Pictorialism was an artistic current characterised by carefully constructed images that resembled paintings and were against candid photography.