Dadagraphy: the photogram

Christian Schad (German, 1894-1982).
Untitled (Schadograph no. 4), 1919.
source: http://arthistory.about.com/od/dada/ig/DadaatMoMAZurich/dada_zurich_05.htm

link: http://www.photograms.org/chapter03.html

Dadagraphy (Dada and photography)

Marcel Duchamp, L.H.O.O.Q., 1919, “rectified readymade,”
pencil on a reproduction — a chromolithograph,
7 3/4 x 4 7/8 inches, private collection, Paris.
source: http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/r/readymade.html

Photography and the Russian Avantgarde

Rodchenko

Poster for the publishing house Gosizdat,1924
(portrait of Lilya Brik shouting out the word “books”)

Portrait of Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1924
source: http://www.schicklerart.com/exh/mayakovsky/HTML/list.html

Pro eto. Ei i Mne. (About This. To Her and to Me.)
(A. Rodchenko) V. Mayakovsky,Moscow, 1923

Alexander Rodchenko
Photomontage for front and back cover of
Mayakovsky’s A Conversation with a Tax-collector about Poetry, 1926.

El Lissitsky

El Lissitsky self-portrait: The Constructor, 1924

Photography and the mass media

Anon.
Münchner Illustrierte Zeitung – Cover,
1918, 2 March
source: http://www.luminous-lint.com/

Tom Howard
Ruth Snyder’s Death Pictured, 1928
gelatin silver, 10 x 8 inches
source: http://www.stevenkasher.com

Photography and Art

Alinari Brothers, Duomo Florence, c. 1890

Alinari, Landscape study by Leonardo da Vinci, collotype

Alinari Brothers, Palazzo Vecchio Florence c.1900

source: http://www.alinari.com/

Adolphe Braun – Saint John Baptist by Rodin

Thomas Eakins Shad fishing, oil on canvas, 1881

Thomas Eakins Fisherman at Gloucester, 1881

Thomas Eakins and photography

Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) – Swimmers, c.1883

Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) – Study in human motion, c.1880

source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eakins

Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) – Nude 1883

source: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/eaph/hd_eaph.htm

Chuck Close: contemporary daguerreotype

Cindy Sherman by Chuck Close
from A Couple of Ways of Doing Something (Aperture 2006)

Chuck Close:
A Couple of Ways of Doing Something
Photographs by Chuck Close
Poems by Bob Holman
Interview with Chuck Close and Bob Holman by Lyle Rexer
Clothbound, 22 tritone images
56 Pages, 11.375″ X 14.875″
Aperture 2006

Excerpt from an interview by Lyle Rexer in the book:

Rexer: “And daguerreotypes are unforgiving. In the nineteenth century there were reams written about the fact that if you decided to have a daguerreotype made, you took your self-image in your hands, because nothing would be left out.”

Close: “It was more warts-and-all than any other process. Because it’s so red-sensitive, any marks, any flaws are heightened. You have to be pretty comfortable in your skin, and vanity goes out the window. And it’s also physically painful. A normal daguerreotype is a more than two-minute exposure. We’ve made it instant photography by having a billion foot-candles of light go off all at once, and that’s very painful. The flashes are so intense your eyes slam shut. It’s like having an ice pick shoved in your eyeball. You can smell hair burning… Each one of these people who lent me their image with no control over how it’s going to come out, in this act of incredible generosity, had to put away whatever self-image they had of how they looked and accept this other image as being them. That goes beyond generosity.”

source: http://www.lensculture.com/close.html

Photography into Art

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796-1875)
La jeune fille et la Mort, 1854

cliché-verre 201 x 168 mm
Genève, Cabinet des estampes
source: http://www.ville-ge.ch/mah/index.php?content=1.2.1.3.1.4.&langue=frs

Towards Photojournalism: Alexander Gardner and the Lincoln Conspirators

Alexander Gardner (1821 – 1882)
Execution of conspirators to Lincoln’s assassination (July 7, 1865)
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Gardner_(photographer)

Documentary Photography

Albert Fernique1841-1898
Album de la construction de la Statue de la Liberté. (published 1883, Paris)

source: New York Public Library Digital Collection