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Five Facets of Photography – Ideas that Changed Photography: Straight Photography

Posted on January 11, 2022 by Brian Human

In the early years of the 20th Century it was increasingly realised that photography would not be taken seriously if it simply aped painting.  Ironically, Alfred Stieglitz, a supporter of the pictorialist Photo Secession in the US, was midwife to … Continue reading →

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Five Facets of Photography – Ideas that Changed Photography: Marketing/Advertising

Posted on January 6, 2022 by Brian Human

Advertising in the 19th century relied mainly on the power of the description of the product’s excellence and occasional unconvincing illustrations.  Recognition of the value of pictures, the improved technology of reproduction and the growth in newspapers and magazines provided … Continue reading →

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Five Facets of Photography – Ideas that Changed Photography: Tabloids

Posted on January 3, 2022 by Brian Human

In 1903 Alfred Harmsworth started the first modern tabloid newspaper, The Daily Mirror, in London. Appealing to the mass market, it presented the now familiar mix of crime stories, human tragedies, celebrity gossip, sports, comics, and puzzles.  Photographs were an essential … Continue reading →

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Five Facets of Photography: Ideas that Changed Photography – Doreen Spooner

Posted on November 30, 2021 by Brian Human

Doreen Spooner (1928-2019) was the first woman to work as a staff photographer on a Fleet Street newspaper during a forty-year career, mostly on the Daily Mirror. Spooner’s photograph of George Bernard Shaw won the British News Picture of the … Continue reading →

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Five Facets of Photography: Ideas that Changed Photography – George Rodger

Posted on November 20, 2021 by Brian Human

George Rodger was a founding member of Magnum Photos in 1947. He travelled to Africa and photographed of indigenous people of the Nuba Mountains, the Latuka and other tribes of southern Sudan, in 1948 and 1949.  The results are regarded as, ‘some of the most historically … Continue reading →

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Five Facets of Photography: Women in Photography – Germaine Krull

Posted on November 12, 2021 by Brian Human

Germaine Krull (1897 – 1985) was an avant-garde photographer, political activist, and hotel owner. Her nationality has been recorded as variously European, though she spent many years in Brazil, the Republic of the Congo, Thailand, and India. She is one of a number … Continue reading →

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Five Facets of Photography: Women in Photography – Miwa Yanagi

Posted on November 7, 2021 by Brian Human

Looking for someone to include as an example of the art/conceptual practice in photography, I found Miwa Yanagi. She is a Japanese photographic artist (b 1967) who examines self-image and stereotypes of women in contemporary Japanese society.  In her third … Continue reading →

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Five Facets of Photography: Travellers, Exploration and Photography – Robert Peary

Posted on November 1, 2021 by Brian Human

I’m putting together material for my U3AC course ‘Five Facets of Photography’ and discovering fascinating photographic byways.  I’ll share some of these in occasional posts. In 1891 Robert Peary lived with the world’s northernmost people, a community of Greenland Inuit … Continue reading →

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