History of photography part 5 the modern era CS 178 Spring 2011 Marc Levoy Computer Science Department Stanford University Outline 2 1900 1920s the age of ism s photojournalism in the snapshot age 1920s 1940s modernism World War II Pulitzer Prize photographs LIFE magazine post 1940s post modernism Marc Levoy 1900 1920s the age of ism s Cubism Pablo Picaso Le Guitariste 1910 3 Marc Levoy 1900 1920s the age of ism s Cubism Paul C zanne Table Napkin Fruit 1900 4 Marc Levoy 1900 1920s the age of ism s Cubism Le Corbusier Still Life 1920 5 Marc Levoy 1900 1920s the age of ism s Cubism Constructivism Soviet propaganda poster 1941 6 Vladimir Tatlin model for monument to the Third International 1920 Marc Levoy 1900 1920s the age of ism s Cubism Constructivism Dada ism 7 chaos irrationality anti art Hannah H ch Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany 1919 Marcel Duchamp Fountain 1917 photograph by Alfred Stieglitz Marc Levoy Marcel Duchamps Nude Descending a Staircase No 2 1912 Motion without movement Heeger SIGGRAPH 1991 each frame is produced by convolving a single input image with a filter which has been phase shifted from the filter used in the previous frame filter used to produce frame 1 9 filter used to produce frame 8 Marc Levoy 1900 1920s the age of ism s Cubism Constructivism Dada ism revolutionary uprisings Russian Revolution Communism Socialism Fascism age of experimentation the moribund art of the old needs to be jettisoned down with tradition up with the avante garde embrace the chaos of war and revolution 10 photographer as ideologue Marc Levoy William Henry Fox Talbot 1839 Camera less images Newhall 11 Laszlo Moholy Nagy Photogram 1925 Newhall Man Ray Rayograph 1922 Marc Levoy Photomontage Newhall Paul Citroen Metropolis 1925 12 Rosenblum John Heartfield Adolf the Superman He Eats Gold and Spews Idiocies 1932 Marc Levoy Photographer as ideologue 13 Lewis Hine Addie Card Spinner Vermont 1915 Rosenblum Lewis Hine poster 1915 Marc Levoy Photographer as ideologue Bill Brandt Halifax 1936 Rainswept Roofs 1930s 14 Rosenblum Marc Levoy Photojournalism Arnold Genthe The San Francisco Fire 1906 15 Rosenblum Marc Levoy World War I 16 23rd infantry fighting in Europe photographer unknown 1918 Marc Levoy World War I 17 mustard gas machine guns trench warfare 37 million casualties cameras and film allowed photographers to shoot on the front lines Marc Levoy Other catastrophes Sam Shere Explosion of the Hindenburg 1937 18 Newhall Marc Levoy 1920s 1940s modernism modern architecture a k a International Style spare design no decoration strong geometry primary colors or white Le Corbusier Villa Savoye 1929 19 Mies van der Rohe Barcelona Pavillion 1929 Marc Levoy 1920s 1940s modernism modern architecture a k a International Style spare design no decoration strong geometry primary colors or white Le Corbusier Chapel at Ronchamps 1954 20 Mies van der Rohe Seagram Building 1958 Marc Levoy 1920s 1940s modernism modern architecture a k a International Style spare design no decoration strong geometry primary colors or white modern furniture Marcel Breuer chair 1928 21 Charles Eames chair 1940 Marc Levoy 1920s 1940s modernism modern architecture a k a International Style spare design no decoration strong geometry primary colors or white modern furniture the straight photograph unhackneyed themes strong geometry unconventional viewpoints sharp definition the f 64 club the industrial aesthetic New Objectivity Precisionists 22 Marc Levoy The straight photograph Jan Lauschmann Castle Staircase 1927 23 Rosenblum Marc Levoy Rosenblum Precisionists Paul Outerbridge Marmon Crankshaft 1923 24 Marc Levoy Rosenblum Precisionists portrait of Frida Kahlo Imogen Cunningham Two Callas 1929 25 Marc Levoy Precisionists portrait of Frida Kahlo 26 Self portrait with monkeys 1938 Marc Levoy Barbara Morgan Martha Graham Letter to the World 1940 The attack on Pearl Harbor USS West Virginia and USS Tennessee USS Arizona burning 28 Marc Levoy USS Shaw exploding photographer unknown 1941 Photographer as propagandist Archives Stars over Berlin and Tokyo will soon replace these factory lights reflected in the noses of America s fighting planes at Douglas Aircraft s Long Beach California plant photographer unknown 30 Marc Levoy Photographer as propagandist Archives 31 Dimitri Kessel Giant Gears in a shop in Massachusetts will become parts of U S warships 1943 Marc Levoy Hollywood during the war 32 Large miniature model of Tokyo Bay to make training films for bombing crews c 1943 Marc Levoy Photojournalism in World War II 33 Robert Capa Loyalist Militiaman at the Moment of Death 1936 Marc Levoy Photojournalism in World War II 34 Robert Capa D Day Landings in Normany 1944 Marc Levoy Photojournalism in World War II 35 Dorothea Lange Dust Storm at Mazanar Relocation Center 1942 Marc Levoy Showing casualties George Strock Three Dead Americans 1943 first photograph of dead soldiers allowed published by U S censors 36 Marc Levoy The decisive battle of World War II 37 Stalingrad July 1942 February 1943 Marc Levoy Dmitri Baltermants Identifying the Dead Russian Front 1942 Margaret Bourke White Liberation of Buchenwald 1945 The Pulitzer Prize Photographs Joe Rosenthal Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima 1943 40 Marc Levoy The Pulitzer Prize Photographs Eddie Adams Executing a Vietcong Officer 1968 41 Marc Levoy The Pulitzer Prize Photographs John Filo Kent State Shootings 1970 42 Marc Levoy The Pulitzer Prize Photographs Huynh Cong Ut Children fleeing a friendly fire napalm attack 1973 43 Marc Levoy LIFE magazine Rosenblum Andreas Feininger LIFE photographer The Photojournalist 1955 44 Marc Levoy LIFE magazine photographs Alfred Eisenstadt V J Day 1945 45 Marc Levoy LIFE magazine photographs 46 Edward Clark Among the Mourners 1945 Marc Levoy LIFE magazine photographs Gjon Mili Pablo Picaso sketching with a penlight 1949 47 Marc Levoy LIFE magazine photographs Hank Walker Jack and Bobbie John and Robert Kennedy 1960 48 Marc Levoy Miscellany J R Eyerman 3 D Movie 1952 49 Marc Levoy Miscellany Jytte Bjerregaard Guess who s coming to dinner 1955 50 Marc Levoy Atomic bomb test at Bikini Atoll photographer unknown 1946 Post 1940s post modernism disillusionment with modernism after WWII photography dominated by photojournalism television and advertising or trivialized by Kodak Instamatics artists return to experimentation 52 straight stark discordant alienated grotesque ambiguous pathetic