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The lecture will look at:
●a short history of Documentary photography●Images of the working class/poverty●Reporting and war●Photographing ‘other’ cultures●The concept of the decisive moment●The constructed document
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William Edward Kilburn ‘The Great Chartist Meeting At The Common’ 1848
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Grahame Clarke
●In many contexts the notion of a literal and objective record of ‘history ‘ is a limited illusion. It ignores the entire cultural and social background against which the image was taken, just as it renders the photographer neutral, passive and invisible recorder of the scene
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“How The Other Half Live”
Jacob Riis, 1890
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Jacob Riis ‘Bandit's Roost,59 1/2 Mulberry Street’ 1888
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Jacob A. Riis A Growler Gang in Session (Robbing a Lush), 1887
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Lewis Hine, Russian steel workers, Homestead, Pa., 1908
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Duffer boy (1909)
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F.S.A.(Farm Security Administration)
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Margeret Bourke-White‘Sharecroppers Home’1937
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Russel Lee‘Interior Of A Black Farmers House’1939
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Dorothea Lange‘Migrant Mother’1936
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Walker Evans
Floyd Burroughs (George Gudger), Hale County, Alabama,
1936.
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Walker Evans ‘Graveyard, Houses & Steel Mill, Bethlehem, Pennysylvania’, 1935
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Bill Brandt‘Northumberland Miner at His Evening Meal’1937
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Robert Frank ‘Parade - Hoboken, New Jersey’ 1958
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William Klein St Patrick's Day, Fifth Avenue 1954-55
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William Klein Dance in Brooklyn 1955
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Magnum group
●Founded in 1947 by Cartier-Bresson & Capa●Ethos of documenting the world & its social problems●Internationalism & Mobility
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HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON
1908-2004
Henri Cartier Bresson: Magnum
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The Decisive Moment
●“photography achieves its highest distinction – reflecting the universality of the human condition in a never-to-be-retrieved fraction of a second”●(Cartier-Bresson)
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Henri Cartier BressonFRANCE. Paris. Place de l'Europe. Gare Saint Lazare. 1932.
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Robert Capa ‘The Falling Soldier’ 1936
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Robert Capa ‘Normandy, France’ 1945
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George Rodger‘Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp’1945
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Rodger Korango Nuba Tribesmen, Victor of a wrestling contest (1949)
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Lee Miller Buchenwald 1945
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Hung Cong Ut ‘Accidental Napalm Attack, 1972
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Robert Haeberle‘People About to be Shot’1969
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Don McCullin‘Shell Shocked Soldier’1968
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documentary exhausted
●To speak of documentary photography at this point in it’s history) is to run headlong into a morass of contradiction , confusion and ambiguity, a position made more problematic by the way in which the increasing sophistication of visual technology makes it difficult to know what is ‘real’ and and what has been ‘faked’.
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Documentary constructed: William Neidich (1989)
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Edward Curtis Native North Americans (early20th century)
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Bruno Barbey ‘Left Wing Riot Protesting The Building Of The New Narito Airport’, 1972
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Jeremy Deller ‘The Battle Of Orgreave’ 2001
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FFurther Research
●America in Pictures the story of LIFE magazine (2011)Rankin for BBC4●Clarke, Grahame (1997) The Photograph Chapter●Wells, Liz (2003) Photography: A Critical Introduction●The Battle of Orgreave Documentary (2001) Mike Figgis