2. QUESTIONS
• What impact did the invention of photography have upon
Impressionism and Post Impressionism? Which
contemporary photographers take their influence from
these movements?
• What impact did photography have on Surrealism? Discuss
how photography provided an ideal format for the
visualisation of surrealist concerns.
• How have artists used photography to explore issues of
identity?
• A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in
the head of a poet. - Orson Welles . Discuss with examples.
• How have photographers used experimental approaches to
explore what cannot be seen by the human eye?
3. Impressionists
• It’s easy to think of photography vs. painting
in terms of reality vs. a transformed version of
reality, but that’s deceptive. For the
Impressionist painters photography could tell
them what something looked like, but not
how one saw it. Early black and white
photographs were a record of what was at the
moment the photo was taken, but it couldn’t
come close to replicating the experience of
seeing.
4.
5. The use of such procedures as double exposure,
Surrealism and Photography combination printing, montage, and
solarization dramatically evoked the union of
dream and reality
7. Francis Bacon
Bacon was nown to have referred to photoraphic material when
painitng – he was particularly intrigued by the distortion and
strangeness of some of Muybridges slices of movement.
10. Marey was at first disappointed with his images as they semed to collect too much superficial
detail of the model and not enough of the movement itself. He experimented with dressing the
model in black velvet with reflective paper strips stuck onto the limbs and joints. This allowed
him to record more elegantly the dynamism of the movment.
11. Marcel dUCHAMP
Nude descending a staircase 1912
Duchamp took a great interest in the photographs of
Marey and it is thought that his images were studied to
create this famous painting that seems to straddle both
cubism and futurism.
12. Anton Giulio Bragaglia
Typewriter 1911
The Bragaglia brothers also
experimented with dynamic
photography. The artists are
considered to be Futurists (the Italian
art movement of the early 20th century
concerned with dynamism, speed,
movement, machinery and racing
towards the future and a new world)
13. Giacomo Balla dynamism of a dog on a leash 1912
Futurist painters concerned with speed, movement and politics.
22. Jeff Wall
Mimic series – micro-gestures revealing
tensions within society
The flooded
Grave
A digital
montage of over
75 different
images from
specially
constructed set
and 2
graveyards
26. Photographs his family
unflinchingly.
Provides and alternative to the
sanitized and heavily edited
family albums we are more used
to seeing.
As he wanted to use these images
to make paintings from he makes
strong references to the paintings
of Vuillard, Bonnard and the
Impressionists.
Richard Billingham
29. RINEKE DIJKSTRA
• Awkward adolescent
subject isolated from
context.
• In transition
• Similar to Diane Arbus?
30. HELLEN VAN MEENE
• Untitled 2000
• Awkward pose noticed not constructed
• Contrast between clothing, make-up and body stage.
31. Job Hunt 1976
After three weeks he still couldn’t find a job.
His mother said to him, ‘maybe you’re not good enough’. Tracey Moffatt
Scarred for Life series
1994
33. Jan Van Eyck
The Arnolfini Marriage
Frida Kahlo
Self-portrait
Sam Taylor-Wood. Self- with thorn
Portrait in single-breasted necklace and
suit with hare. hummingbird
