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Papers On Photography
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Man Ray -- “The Poet of the Dark Room”
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This 24 page report
discusses the photographer Man Ray (1890 - 1976) who Jean Cocteau
referred to as the “poet of the darkroom.” He was born Emmanuel
Radnitskyi n Philadelphia in 1890. After he became Man Ray, he
also became one of the 20th century's most admired and innovative
photographers. His work demonstrated the fact that photography
truly is an art form and convinced countless critics that it
offered a legitimately artistic way to present a unique and
personal form of self-expression. He was also a painter and
filmmaker and thought of as one of the avant-garde of Paris in
the 1920s. However, it is his photography that has remained as
the most lasting representation of his view and representation of
the world. Bibliography lists 20 sources.
Filename: BWmanray.wps
Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971)
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(10 pp) Margaret Bourke-White (1904 - 1971) is the
kind of woman you want to read stories about to
first yourself and then to any and all girl
children that might come into your area. She was a
dedicated professional photographer at a time when
it was an unheard of activity for a woman. Her
name remained on the masthead of Life magazine
until 1969. This discussion will look at the woman
and her work. Bibliography lists 6 sources and
three visuals.
Filename: BBbrkwh.doc
Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971): An Overview
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This is a 12 page paper discussing the life and professional career of Margaret Bourke-White. Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) was considered by some to be the most famous photojournalist of her time. Born to open-minded and progressive parents, Bourke-White learned at an early age to be independent with an assertive motto of “you can”. Although she graduated with a degree in the sciences, Bourke-White soon gained a reputation as a competent industrial photographer which attracted the attention of Henry Luce the editor and publisher of Fortune and later Life magazine who hired her as the first female photojournalist. Bourke-White was the war correspondent for Life magazine and the U.S. Air Force and was also the first female journalist allowed in combat. During her war years, she was the first correspondent in the Soviet Union and captured the bombing of the Kremlin by the Nazis on film, was torpedoed in the ship which was taking her to Northern Africa and accompanied Patton and the United States troops on their tour of the concentration camps in Germany. Back home in the United States, in collaboration with her second husband, novelist Erskine Caldwell, on several photo texts on the inequalities of the American social and class system. Bourke-White continued to be an inspiration to feminists and photojournalists during her entire career and in the mid 1950s when she discovered she had Parkinson’s Disease and could no longer take photographs, she wrote her autobiography during over eight years. Margaret Bourke-White died in Connecticut in 1971.
Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: TJBourk1.rtf
Music Photography During the 1960s and 1970s
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A 5 page paper which examines why the work of certain photographers has become so valuable (is it because of their style or the artists they photographed), and also discusses the historical effect of music photography on contemporary design, the design movements that relate to music photography and how the study of music photography can help the fledgling student photographer formulate ideas and develop a distinctive visually aesthetic style. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: TGmuspic.rtf
Patriotism
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A 7 page paper which considers what it means to be patriotic. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: TGpatrio.rtf
Photographer Bruce Weber
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This 6 page paper considers the life and accomplishments of photographer Bruce Weber. His interests and work in fashion photography, filmmaking and portraiture are explored. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: SA149BW.rtf
Photographer Lewis Hine
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This is a 3 page paper discussing the photography and the social issues addressed by Lewis Hine. Photographer Lewis Wickes Hine (1874-1940) was not only a photographer who achieved a certain artistry within his photographs but also addressed important social issues regarding humanity in the first half of the 20th century. Through his insightful images of the immigrants on Ellis Island at the turn of the century, the child laborers across the country, the devastating human aspects of World War I and the building of the Empire State Building during the Great Depression, Hine managed to open a nation’s eyes to the humanist concerns important within an industrial society which values its luxury but often has little regard for the human price to be paid in the production of such luxury.
Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: TJartwk1.rtf
PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION ANALYSIS
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This 3 page paper analyzes three works of photographic art: Migrant Mother, The Missing Link, and Statehood. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: MBosd.rtf
Photographic History: The Calotype
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(5 pp.) The base of a calotype negative, rather
than the glass or film to which we have become
accustomed, was high quality writing paper. The
sheet of paper was carefully selected to have a
smooth and uniform texture and, wherever possible,
to avoid the watermark. It was offered as the
chief alternative to the Daguerreotype and was
more popular with amateur photographers, artists,
and scientists, who used it, largely because the
negative could be corrected with pencil.
Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: BBcaloph.
