of the 1920s 1930s amp 1940s Edward Weston Dorothea Lange Gordon Parks Has been called one of the most innovative and influential American photographers Weston photographed a wide variety of subjects including ID: 365336
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Master Photographers of the 1920s, 1930s & 1940s
Edward Weston
Dorothea Lange
Gordon ParksSlide2
Has been called “one of the most innovative and influential
American photographers”Weston photographed a wide variety of subjects, including still
lifes, landscapes, nudes, and portraitsFocused on the people and places of the American West
Edward Weston(1886 – 1958)Slide3
Born in Chicago and moved to California at age 21
Knew he wanted to be a photographer from an early ageAttended the Illinois School of Photography
Opened his own studio in 1911, taking portraits of children and friendsGained recognition for his work and won prizes in national competitions
Weston in 1915Slide4
His early work was part of a photography movement called “pictoralism
”Pictoralists manipulated
their images to make them look more artisticImages often lacked sharp focus, were printed in colours other than black & white, and had visible brushstrokes or other
surface texturesKarl and Ethel, 1923Slide5
Other examples of Weston’s early Pictoralist workSlide6
He moved to Mexico
from 1923 to 1927 and the different culture and scenery forced him to look at things in new waysHe moved away from
pictoralism and embraced realism“The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself…I feel definite in the belief that the approach to photography is through
realism”Slide7
Janitzio, Patzcuaro,
1926
Charrito
, 1926Slide8
Weston is well known for many of the nude portraits
he took throughout the 1920s and 1930sHis photos often isolated specific body parts and reduced the human figure down to its basic forms
Nude, 1925Slide9
Nude, 1927
Nude
, 1936Slide10
Weston developed a similar interest in the organic
forms of fruits, vegetables, rocks, and seashells
Pepper No. 30, 1930
Shell
, 1927Slide11
In 1937, Weston was the
first photographer to receive a Guggenheim FellowshipIn 1947 he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and he stopped photographing soon
thereafterHe spent the remaining ten years of his life overseeing the printing of more than 1,000 of his most famous imagesWeston died at age
71 in Big Sur, CaliforniaSlide12
An influential American
documentary photographer and photojournalistBest
known for her Depression-era work for the US governmentLange's photographs humanized the consequences of the Great Depression
Dorothea Lange(1895 – 1965)Slide13
Born in Hoboken, New
JerseyEducated in photography at Columbia University in New York City
Moved to San Francisco in 1918 and opened a successful portrait studio the following yearWhen the Great Depression began in 1929, Lange turned her camera lens from the
studio to the street
White Angel Bread Line, San Francisco, 1933Slide14
Lange’s photos of unemployed and homeless people
led to her employment with the federal Farm Security Administration
From 1935 to 1939, Lange documented sharecroppers, displaced farm families, and migrant workersPoor mother and children, Oklahoma
, 1936Slide15
Mother & children, Tulelake, California
, 1939
Mississippi Delta Children
, 1936Slide16
Distributed free to newspapers across the country, Lange’s images
became icons of the eraHer best-known picture
is titled "Migrant Mother““I saw and approached the hungry and desperate mother, as if drawn by a magnet. She had just sold the tires from her car to buy food.”
Migrant Mother, 1936Slide17
In 1941, Lange was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for excellence in photography
Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, she covered the internment of Japanese
AmericansHer images were so obviously critical that the Army impounded most of them, and they were not seen publicly for more than 50 yearsSlide18
In 1945, Lange was invited to
teach photography at the California School of Fine Arts
In 1952, she co-founded the photographic magazine ApertureLange died of esophageal cancer on October 11, 1965 in San Francisco, California at age 70Slide19
An American
photographer, musician, writer and film directorParks was the first African-American staff photographer for
Life magazine and later the first African-American to direct a major motion pictureHe is known for his striking fashion photography
Gordon Parks(1912 – 2006)Slide20
Parks was born in Fort Scott, Kansas and attended a segregated elementary school
At the age of 25, he was struck by photographs of migrant workers in a magazine and bought his
first cameraThe photography clerks who developed Parks' first roll of film, applauded his work and prompted him to seek work
as a fashion photographerSlide21
Parks moved to Chicago in 1940
, where he began a portrait business and specialized in photographs of society women
In 1944, he became a freelance fashion photographer for VogueHe developed a distinctive
style, often photographing his models in motion, or casual posesSlide22
His photographs seemed like he
caught his subjects off guard and mid-action, as if they were waiting for a bus, in the middle of shopping,
or expecting a lunch dateSlide23
Parks composed his images dramatically
and made them seem as if they were part of a narrativeSlide24Slide25Slide26Slide27
In 1948, Parks began a staff job as a photographer and writer
with Life magazine For 20
years, he covered subjects including fashion, sports, Broadway, poverty, racial segregation, and portraits of famous celebritiesIn 1971, Parks directed
the major hit film ShaftHe died of cancer at the age of 93 while living in Manhattan
Muhammad Ali, Miami, Florida
, 1966