Photography:
"I have been a witness, and these pictures are my testimony. The events I have recorded should not be forgotten and must not be repeated."
James Nachtwey
Sudan 1993, Palistine 2000, Rwanda 1994
Frances Frith (1857) ‘Entrance to the Great Temple’
Jacob Ribs- 1888 Bandits Roost, 1887 A growler gang in session (robbing a lush)
Lewis Hine, Russian steel workers, Homestead, Pa., 1908
Roger Fenton (1855) ‘Into the Valley of the Shadow of death’
William Edward Kilburn ‘The Great Chartist Meeting At The Common’ 1848
“photography achieves its highest distinction – reflecting the universality of the human condition in a never-to-be-retrieved fraction of a second”
Cartier-Bresson
Director Roy Stryker
Depression- 11 million unemployed.
Photographys used as Photojournalism and Emotive Lobbying Tool.
Dorothea Lange (1936) ‘Migrant Mother’
Walker Evans ‘Graveyard, Houses & Steel Mill, Bethlehem, Pennysylvania’, 1935
Mass Observation 1937-1960's
Tom Harrison
Charles Madge
Humphery Jennings
Humphrey Spender
War Conflict Photography
Robert Capa ‘Normandy, France’ 1945
founded 1947 by Cartier Bresson & Capa
Documenting the WORLD and its SOCIAL PROBLEMS
Internationalism & Mobility
Robert Haeberle (1969)
Nick Ut (1972) ‘Accidental Napalm Attack’
Don McCullin (1968) ‘Shell Shocked Soldier’
Gillian Wearing
Signs that say what you want them to say 1992-3
HUMANITARIAN PERSPECTIVE
PORTRAY SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SITUATIONS
Objective to the facts of the situation
People tend to form the SUBJECT MATTER
Tend to be STRAIGHTFORWARD and UNMANIPULATED
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