OUGD401 Lecture Notes: Photography as Document

Jacob A. Riis "a growler gang in session" ( robbing a lush) 1887 - street Arabs, the lawless youth, rein-acted 

Lewis hine, Russian steel workers, homestead 1908 - sociological, never exploit, retains self, reports the conditions 

Duffer boy 1909 

F.S.A- farm security administration - migration, desperate for work 

Margaret Bourke-white "sharecroppers home" 1937 - temporary structure built for shelter, lined with newspaper, practical material, insulated, creative, not objective, Opposite of American dream 

Russell lee "interior of a black farmers house" 1939 - less artistic use of composition, meekly recording 

Dorothea Lange "migrant mother" 1936 
Hungry, desperate, no name or her history 
Iconic, classic mother n child sitch,

Walker Evans - floyd Burroughs (gerorge gudger) hale county 1936 - no editing or manipulation, real gritty poverty

Bill Brandt - Northumberland miners at his evening meal 1937 - northerner, working class

Robert frank 'parade - Hoboken, New Jersey' 1958 - contradict, othering not exploitative 

William Klein st Patrick's day, fifth avenue 1954 - 55 - his presents is akbowledged

Dance in Brooklyn 1955 - blur, dark connotation, captures movement of the city, grain and blur - redefine the tradition of documentary 

Magnum group - founded in 1947 by henri Cartier Bresson - unaware of presence , seamless photographer, surrealism, mystery 

The decisive moment - photography achieves its highest distinction - reflecting the universality of the human condition in a never-to-be moment

France 1932 pic , reflection in the water, sees the world as a stage, no manipulation, modernism, truth to the materials 

Documentary and war 
Robert capa "the falling soldier" 1935 - the moment of the soldiers death, claims its wasn't real,
Robert capa " Normandy, France" 1945 

George Rodger "Bergen - Belsen concentration camp" 1945 , horror, 

Lee miller 

Hung cong ut - attack 1972, anti war statement, iconic, viewers discuss, relation of the photographer to the subject, 

Robert haeberle "people about to be shot" 1969 - implicit shooting, desire to gather info, overrides human response 

Don McCullin "she'll shocked soldier" 1968 - trauma, retreats, idealised landscapes 

Vietnam - reffered to the war in colour

Documentary exhaustion Clarke 1997;163 

William niedich 1989 - documentary constructed, attempt to re-write American history, sydjugation of American Indians, 9 th cent processes 

Edward Curtis native north Americans (early 20th century) 

Rodger Korangi, Nuba tribesmen, 1940 

Bruno barbey - left wing riot protesting 1972, aesthetic over social impact 

Jeremy deller "the battle of orgreave" 2001 

Deller is both reserving the memory of political struggles which no longer have force in the culture - Nash 2006