Lecture 5

The Document

-Photography (objective) as recording/showing the world/stepping in (capture the world)
-Represent reality
-www.jamesnachtwey.com-bond with viewer
-Palestine 2000
-Rwanda 1
-Sudan 1992 (explicit/shows the horror)
-Neutral/shouldn't be this way, photographer always influences
-William Edward Kilburn (1848)-"The great chartist meeting at the common"-seemingly neutral photo, had a reason to shoot this way
-Rodger Fenton (1855)-"Into the valley of the shadow of death
-Decisive moment-photography achieves its highest distinction reflecting... Henri Cartier Bresson
-Jacob Riis (1888)-"Bandits Roost"-they are looking at the photographer not authentic documentary/realistic set up
-A growler gang in session
-CONSTRUCTION OF REALITY/STAGED REALITY
-Lewis Hine-"Russian steel workers" (1908)/"Child laborers in glassworks, Indiana"
-FSA photographer (1935-44) (farm security administrator)



-Political propaganda/"shooting script"
-Margaret Bourke-White "sharecropperse home" (1937)
-Russel Lee-"Interior of a black farmers house" (1939)
-Dorothea Lange-"Migrant mother" (1936)
-Walker Evans
-Robert Frank, 1888
-Carl Dammann (1870-1)
-"Burdens of representation" book
-Cesare Lombroso-"Portrait of melancholy","Portraits of Italian and German criminals"(1889)
-Robert Capa-Normandy, France (1945)/war photography/conflict
-Magnum group (1947)
-"Accidental Napalm Attack (1972)



-Don McCullin-"Shell shocked soldier" (1968)/McCullin was banned from the Faulklands as they didn't want people to know the reality of what happened there
-Robert Haeberle-"Massacre" (1969)/apart of it, but can't change it)
-William Klein-"St. Patricks Day, 5th Ave" (1954-55)
-Bernd and Hilla Becher-conceptual art
-Richard Long-"A long line and tracks in Bolivia" (1981)
-Critical realism-Berlot Brecht (1931)
-Fish story (book)/Theory of the novel
-Andreas Gursky,-"99 cent" (1999)
-Jeff Wall-"Dead troops talk" (1992)



-Gillian Wearing-"Signs that say what you want them to say" (1992-3)
-Jeremy Deller-"The Battle of Orgreave" (2001)
-John Harris