greatest photographers of the 20th century
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Twentieth CenturyOf The
Greatest
Photographers
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How do you define
Great
Photographers
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SKILLFUL.
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SKILLFUL. INFLUENTIAL.
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REMARKABLE.INFLUENTIAL.SKILLFUL.
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Eugène AtgetFebruary 12, 1857 – August 4, 1927
French photographer noted for his photographs documenting
the architecture and street scenes of Paris.
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Photographs
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Where Did The People
Go?
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Atgetprefers to work early in the morning
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Giving many of the images a feeling of
silence and timelessness.
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Made thousands of images that recreate the visual past of a great city.
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My work was physically demanding as my old bellows camera, with its glass plates, and a wooden tripod, weighed more than forty pounds!
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I offered to lend him a little Rolleiflex, but he refused.
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Man RayAn American artist who spentmost of his career in Paris, France.
August 27, 1890– November 18, 1976
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Dada and Surrealist movements’ Significant contributor
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Dada
Anti-war. Anti-bourgeois.
Anarchist in nature
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Surprise. Unexpected juxtapositions. Non sequitur.
Surrealism
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In 1999, ARTnews magazine named him one of the
25 most influential artists of the 20th
century.
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Photographs
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Photogram
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He never fully abandoned painting though portrait photography
provided him with both financial support and celebrity status
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“There was no conflict between the two –why couldn’t people accept the idea thatone might engage in two activities in his lifetime, alternately or simultaneously?”
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So you have to thank this manfor making PHOTOGRAPHY
an accepted ART FORM.
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Alfred StieglitzJanuary 1, 1864 - July 13, 1946
American photographer &modern art promoter
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Technical
Experimental
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A Photography Crusader
Technical
Experimental
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“Stieglitz does not, like his Parisian contemporary, Atget, range the city from morning to night, deliberately composing a documentary history of its life, after the fashion of Zola. He not merely observes: he waits, he eliminates; he selects.”
- Lewis Mumford, critic
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8 of 9 highest prices ever paid at auction for Stieglitz photographs are images of
Georgia O'Keeffe
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Like the Chinese proverb,
ONE PICTURE IS WORTH TEN
THOUSAND WORDS
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Walker EvansNovember 3, 1903 – April 10, 1975
American photographer
Best known for his work for the Farm Security Administrationdocumenting the effects of theGreat Depression.
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His goal as a photographer was to make pictures that are:
literateauthoritativetranscendent
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Photographs
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In 2000, Evans was inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame
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American photographer and film director well-known for
her conceptual portraits
Cindy ShermanJanuary 19, 1954 - Present
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As a child, she loved to play dress-up, using old clothes she had inherited from her
grandmother.
She also loved to draw, and she practiced by studying
her own face.
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Year after she graduated from college, she began to make the series of 69 photographs, (Untitled Film Stillsrecognized as --
“one of the landmarks of late-twentieth-century art.”
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Photographs
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And much more…
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Sherman’s contribution is conceptual
“She has reclaimed the oldest trick in the book, storytelling, and given it new life
in visual art.” - Calvin Tomkins
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Stieglitz, Evans, and Atget were experimental artists who were committed to realism
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Man Ray and Sherman were conceptual innovators who constructed images to express their ideas
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I might say that I possess all of Old Paris.- Eugène Atget, 1920
I want to be contradictory and irrational.- Man Ray, 1966
Photography is my passion. The search for Truth my obsession.- Alfred Stieglitz, 1921
It is reality that photography reaches toward.- Walker Evans, 1969
[T]he one thing I’ve always known is that the camera lies.- Cindy Sherman, 1987
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This was based on the study byDavid Galenson (2009).
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
On determining the greatest…
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