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Bauhaus and photography

Herbert Bayer: Small Harbor, Marseille 1928. In Timeline of Art History . New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/nvis/ho_1987.1100.8.htm

From Dada to Bauhaus: Moholy-Nagy

Moholy-Nagy, Untitled, photogram, c.1925 http://www.moholy-nagy.org/ Moholy-Nagy, Untitled, photogram, c.1922 http://www.moholy-nagy.org/

Dadagraphy: the photomontage - Raoul Hausmann

Hausmann, Tatlin at Home, 1920 source: http://www.madsci.org Hausmann, Raoul Dada Siegt, 1920 Watercolor and collage on wove paper, mounted on board Overall 23 5/8 x 17 3/4 in. Private collection Hausmann, Raoul The Art Critic 1919-1920 Photomontage and collage 12 3/8 x 9 7/8 in. Tate Gallery, London source: ArtArchive Hannah Höch and Raoul Hausmann at the First International Dada-Messe, Berlin 1920 [Photograph, 16,5 x 12 cm.] source: Essential Dada

Dadagraphy: the photomontage - Hannah Hoch

Hannah Höch, Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany, 1919, collage of pasted papers, 90 x 144 cm, Staatliche Museum, Berlin. source: Hannah Hoch- Wikipedia Hannah Hoch, Monument 1: from an Ethnographic Museum, 1924 source: The Photomontages of Hannah Hoch link: Cut and Paste

Dadagraphy: the photogram

Christian Schad (German, 1894-1982). Untitled (Schadograph no. 4), 1919. source: http://arthistory.about.com/od/dada/ig/DadaatMoMAZurich/dada_zurich_05.htm link: http://www.photograms.org/chapter03.html

Dadagraphy (Dada and photography)

Marcel Duchamp, L.H.O.O.Q., 1919, "rectified readymade," pencil on a reproduction — a chromolithograph, 7 3/4 x 4 7/8 inches, private collection, Paris. source: http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/r/readymade.html

Photography and the Russian Avantgarde

R odchenko Poster for the publishing house Gosizdat,1924 (portrait of Lilya Brik shouting out the word “books”) Portrait of Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1924 source: http://www.schicklerart.com/exh/mayakovsky/HTML/list.html Pro eto. Ei i Mne. ( About This. To Her and to Me. ) (A. Rodchenko) V. Mayakovsky, Moscow, 1923 Alexander Rodchenko Photomontage for front and back cover of Mayakovsky's A Conversation with a Tax-collector about Poetry, 1926. El Lissitsky El Lissitsky self - portrait: The Constructor , 1924

Photography and the mass media

Anon. Münchner Illustrierte Zeitung - Cover, 1918, 2 March source: http://www.luminous-lint.com/ Tom Howard Ruth Snyder's Death Pictured , 1928 gelatin silver, 10 x 8 inches source: http://www.stevenkasher.com

Photography and Art

Alinari Brothers, Duomo Florence, c. 1890 Alinari, Landscape study by Leonardo da Vinci, collotype Alinari Brothers, Palazzo Vecchio Florence c.1900 source: http://www.alinari.com/ Adolphe Braun - Saint John Baptist by Rodin Thomas Eakins Shad fishing, oil on canvas, 1881 Thomas Eakins Fisherman at Gloucester, 1881

Thomas Eakins and photography

Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) - Swimmers, c.1883 Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) - Study in human motion, c.1880 source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eakins Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) - Nude 1883 source: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/eaph/hd_eaph.htm

Chuck Close: contemporary daguerreotype

Cindy Sherman by Chuck Close from A Couple of Ways of Doing Something (Aperture 2006) Chuck Close: A Couple of Ways of Doing Something Photographs by Chuck Close Poems by Bob Holman Interview with Chuck Close and Bob Holman by Lyle Rexer Clothbound, 22 tritone images 56 Pages, 11.375" X 14.875" Aperture 2006 Excerpt from an interview by Lyle Rexer in the book: Rexer : "And daguerreotypes are unforgiving. In the nineteenth century there were reams written about the fact that if you decided to have a daguerreotype made, you took your self-image in your hands, because nothing would be left out." Close : "It was more warts-and-all than any other process. Because it’s so red-sensitive, any marks, any flaws are heightened. You have to be pretty comfortable in your skin, and vanity goes out the window. And it’s also physically painful. A normal

Photography into Art

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796-1875) La jeune fille et la Mort, 1854 cliché-verre 201 x 168 mm Genève, Cabinet des estampes source: http://www.ville-ge.ch/mah/index.php?content=1.2.1.3.1.4.&langue=frs