Documents for artists

1. Photographic typologies are a series of images that are of the same subject/theme or related object theme. They are all photographed in the same way as they are about comparisons within the theme. The same object/ place can also be repetitively taken.
   
   
2. “The face of the times” is a series of photographs by the German photographer, August Sander. He was a commercial photographer until he created his human typology of German worker, when he was then considered to be a modernist. Sander categorised his human typology into social types.
   
   

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   Photo-montage by

   Alexander Rodche

   Alexander Rodchenko was a Russian photographer who took advantage of the flexibility of the Leica camera. Photographs could be taken from any angle, instead of the usual “belly button photography”, where photos were all taken from the same level (belly button level). Rodchenko designed the “USSR in construction” magazine which contained propaganda, glorifying the Soviet system showed their successes.
   
   
4. A photo-montage is a graphic technique, taken from cinema montage. They are created by collecting, cutting, pasting, editing and re-photographing images to create a new, unique photograph.
   
   
5. In the 1920s, Eugene Atget used albumen prints to create a typology of Paris. Taking over 10 000 photographs, he tried to preserve society in the areas of Paris that were going to be destroyed due to redevelopment.
   
   

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   Man Ray-solarization example

   Solarization was discovered in the 1920s by Man Ray, and gives images a metallic look and making people look as though they are made from aluminium. With a Solarisation print, dark tones appear light and light tones appear dark. This method was discovered when Ray experimented with placing objects on light sensitive paper, switching the light on for a few seconds and then seeing the print that had been left behind. This is known as a photo-gram.
   
   
7. Bernice Abbott was an American photographer, who was introduced to Eugene Atget and his work through Man Ray. Abbott was one of Ray's assistants, and in 1927, Abbott took Atget's portrait. He took one standing, one sitting and one in profile.
   
   
8. Walker Evans worked for the FSA (Farm Security Administration ), documenting the effects of the great depression. He was fired in 1937 because he couldn't make his images of “moulded reality” fit with the propaganda requirements of the FSA.