PHOTOGRAPHY

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PHOTOGRAPHY
extended media
MA. Vesna Srnic
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Contents

• A brief history of photography
• Agency Magnum
• Fashion photography
• High-fashion model look
• Erotic photography
• Photography as a part of installation

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A brief history of photography

• Invented in 1839 (daguerrotype)
• Photorealism artists almost lost their jobs
  (photo.portraits-quicker, cheaper)
• 1920s photography became creative media
• Laslo Moholy-Nagy imports it at Bauhaus (art
  school, Germany)
• Effort-experimental and abstract visual
  expression
• Photomontages creators
• Kurt Schwiters, El Lissitzky, Willi
  Baumeister, Max Ernst

• Man Ray makes photograms and uses solarization

• Henri Cartier-Bresson, Place de l'Europe. Gare
  Saint Lazare, Paris, 1932
• (cover photo from the book On Photography,
  Farrar, Straus Giroux, New York, 1977)

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• Combined technics and practice of conceptual
  and post-conceptual age (1970s and 80s)

• 1940s and 50s pure photography and naturalism
  (Bauhaus)
• 1960s Robert Rauschenberg creates complex
  combined technics
• Interventions scratching and painting on
  emulsion colouring negatives solarisation
  christalisation

Željko Jerman, interventions on photo paper, 1975
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Agency Magnum

• Huge influence on contemporary photographyMagnum
  
• (US)
• -Edward Weston (Pepper,1930), Henri Cartier
  Bresson, Robert Capa, David Seymour
• Documentary photo., still nature, portraits,
  landscapes

E.Weston,Pepper,1930 (Susan Sontag, photo from
the book On Photography, Farrar, Straus
Giroux, New York, 1977)
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Fashion photography

• Richard Avedon,Irving Penn (tend to atelier or
  studio ambience)
• After 1945 in US Englishmen introduce natural
  ambience, and gather around Vogue
  magazine-Helmuth Newton, David Montgomery, David
  Bailey

• Richard Avedon Dovima with elephants,
• Evening dress by Christian Dior, Paris, 1955
• (photo from http//www.artnet.fr/)

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High-fashion model look

• /www.vogue.co.uk/

• Fashion photograph seeks transformation, acting
  ability and photogenie (mental picture as
  autoerotic capacity)
• Top models Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell,
  Christy Turlington, Cindy Craford, Claudia
  Schiffer
• Advertisment photography very often includes
  fashion, erotics and humorous aspects

• Christian Dior,
• Flamenco, 2003
• (model Adina Fohlin)
• (http//www.vogue.co.uk)

• Elie Saab,
• Vogue, 2003
• (model Karolina Kurkova)
• (http//www.vogue.co.uk)

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• The best creators and fashion houses
• Christian Dior, Calvin Klein, Christian Lacroix,
  Yves Saint Laurant, Donna Karan, Viviane
  Westwood, Jean Paul Gaultier, Gucci, Givenchy,
  Rudolph Valentino,Gianni Versace, Giorgio Armani,
  Chanel, Prada itd.

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Erotic photography

• Contemporary photography stresses sexuality as
  total denudeness
• Not as Nude any more, it is without emphasised
  proportions and transcendence, just as
  nakedness, sex affiliation, it emphasises ones
  own sex favorisation

• Stephan Lupino COCO, 1989

(Sexualy confused person) (photo Courtesy of
the Artist)
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• Croatian "Mapplethorpe", the world famous
  photographer Stephan Lupino "Tina fish"
  (1995)- is also a "camp", because Tina wears
  glass bra, two circular aquariums with fish, but
  without irony, here the woman is simply eroticly
  feminine and selfsufficient.

• Stefan Lupino TinaFish, 1995.

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Photography as a part of installation

• Ambiguity of woman individuum is artisticly
  presented in Croatian artist Vlasta Delimars
  opus (installation No name", 1993)
• Personal appearance strenghtens her not only as
  sexualy conscious artist, but as mother,
  lover,wife, housewife, saint as well...

• Installation "No name", 1993
• ( mirror, photography,paint, textile)
• (Photo Courtesy of the Artist)