From the screening about photography video, I can conclude that the video is about the history of photography.
First I want to talk about Photographic Typology. What is the purpose of photographic typology? Photographic typology is very useful to create pure documents of photography. Martin Parr is the one of photographic typology photographer.
Who is Martin Parr?
He is a typology photographer. He has worked on numerous photographic projects. He has developed an international reputation for his innovative imagery, his oblique approach to social documentary, and his input to photographic culture within the UK and abroad.
Besides Martin Parr, there is a photographer named August Sander. Since 1920, August Sander focused on Human Typology Photography. August Sander was a German portrait and documentary photographer. He is German photographer who attempted to produce a comprehensive photographic document of the German people. He has been described as “the most important German portrait photographer of the early twentieth century”. He took up photography as a hobby and, after military service, pursued it professionally, working in a series of photographic firms and studios in Germany.
This is the example of August Sander Photograph about Human Typology.
Alexander Rodchenko is the another photographer that mentioned in the video. His photograph mostly known as Belly Button Photography. He is the pioneer of propaganda political. He came from Uni Soviet, Russia. His art is influenced by politic. After the Hungarian Revolution, when there was to be a resurgence of a socialist left, and a new generation of revolutionaries were to come under the influence of his work. At the beginning of the 1920s, Rodchenko worked together with his friend the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky on bold, photographic illustrations for Mayakovsky’s volume of poems Pro Eto. At 1930s, the mood had shifted in Russia; photography was increasingly being instrumentalized by the state in the interests of socialism. Rodchenko was repeatedly forced to defend himself against accusations of formalism made over his photograph Pioneer with Trumpet, and, in the end, he was expelled from the October artists group, which he himself had co-founded in 1928, for refusing to adapt his style of working to the new times.
This is the example of his photograph.
That video also tell us that photography showed that artist can take part.
New photography = New way of seen.
Photographer + Camera = Freedom. Photographer can take anything they want with their own camera.
Another photographer named Eugene Atget. Eugene Atget never called himself a photographer, instead he preferred “author-producer”. Eugene Atget remains as a photographer of mystery. He photographed in part to create “documents,” as he called his photographs, of architecture and urban views, but he supported himself by selling these photographs to painters as studies. Atget was not well known during his lifetime, his visual record of a vanishing world has become an inspiration for twentieth-century photographers. As a non-progressive artist, he did not command a following, or have many fans during his lifetime. He did however get recognized by many well-known painters, from Matisse, to Man Ray, to Picasso, and became a great source of inspiration for them in his photography.
This is one of his photograph.
There are so many photographer that mentioned in that video, like Man Ray, Daniel Meadows, Barney S, Walker Evans, Bill Brandt, and many more.
But, the last photographer I want to explain is Man Ray.
So, who is Man Ray?
Man Ray was a pioneer in 20th century avant-garde art and photography and a leading figure in the Dada and Surrealist art movements in both America and in France, where he lived for many years. In 1922, Man Ray invented a new method of creating a photograph, which he called ‘rayograph.’ Instead of producing photographs from a negative, Ray created photographic images by placing objects directly on photosensitive paper. During the later years of his career, he continued to flourish as an artist, and his work was exhibited widely, for example, at the Bibliothéque Nationale in Paris (1962), the Los Angeles County Museum (1966), and the Venice Photography Biennale, where he won the Gold Medal in 1961.
The one of his photograph called “Dust Breeding”.
References:
http://global.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/522093/August-Sander
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/images/work/AL/AL00028_10.jpg
http://www.photoforager.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Rodchenko_Pionierin_01.jpg
http://www.photoforager.com/archives/alexander-rodchenko
http://www.socialistreview.org.uk/article.php?articlenumber=10331
http://eugeneatget.wikispaces.com/Biography
http://www.atgetphotography.com/The-Photographers/Eugene-Atget.html
http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=1763
http://chloe328.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/atget2.jpg
http://global.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/492395/Man-Ray
http://www.phillipscollection.org/research/american_art/bios/ray-bio.htm
http://selfinterestandsympathy.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/man-ray-dust-breeding-1920.jpg
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