MA. Vesna Srnić

Contents

      A brief history of photography Agency “Magnum” Fashion photography “High-fashion model look” Erotic photography Photography as a part of installation

A brief history of photography

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Invented in 1839. (daguerrotype) Photorealism: artists almost “lost their jobs” (photo.portraits-quicker, cheaper) 1920´s photography became creative media Laslo Moholy-Nagy imports it at “Bauhaus” (art school, Germany) Effort-experimental and abstract visual expression Photomontages creators: Kurt Schwiters, El Lissitzky, Willi Baumeister, Max Ernst

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Man Ray izrađuje fotograme i primjenjuje solarizaciju

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Henri Cartier-Bresson, “Place de l'Europe. Gare Saint Lazare”, Paris, 1932

   1940´s and 50´s: pure photography and naturalism (Bauhaus) 1960´s Robert Rauschenberg creates complex combined technics Interventions: scratching and painting on emulsion; colouring negatives; solarisation; christalisation  Combined technics and practice of conceptual and post conceptual age (1970´s and 80´s) Željko Jerman, interventions on photo paper, 1975

Agency “Magnum”

  Huge influence on contemporary photography:”Magnum” (US) -Edward Weston (“Pepper”,1930), Henri Cartier Bresson, Robert Capa, David Seymour Documentary photo., still nature, portrets, landscapes E.Weston,”Pepper”,1930

Fashion photography

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After 1945 in US: Richard Avedon,Irving Penn (tend to atelier or studio ambience) Englishmen introduce natural ambience, and gather around “Vogue” magazine Helmuth Newton, David Montgomery, David Bailey

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Richard Avedon: “Dovima with elephants”, Evening dress by Christian Dior, Paris, 1955

“High-fashion model look”

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Fashion photograph seeks: transformation, acting ability and photogenie (mental picture as autoerotics) Top models: Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington, Cindy Craford, Claudia Schiffer

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/www.vogue.co.uk/ Advertisment photography very often includes fashion, erotics and humorous aspects

• Elie Saab, “Vogue”, 2003 (model: Karolina Kurkova) 

Christian Dior,

“Flamenco”, 2003 (model: Adina Fohlin)

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The best creators and fashion houses:

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Christian Dior, Calvin Klein, Christian Lacroix, Yves Saint Laurant, Donna Karan, Viviane Westwood, Jean Paul Gaultier, Gucci, Givenchy, Rudolph Valentino,Gianni Versace, Giorgio Armani, Chanel, Prada itd.

Erotic photography

  Contemporary photography: stresses sexuality as total denudeness Not as Nude any more, it is without emphasised proportions and transcendence, just as nakedness, sex affiliation, it emphasises one`s own sex favorizing • Stephan Lupino: COCO, 1989 (Sexualy confused person)

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Croatian "Mapplethorpe", the world famous photographer Stephan Lupino: "Tina & fish" (1995) is also a "camp", because Tina wears glass bra, two circular aquariums with fish, but without irony, here the woman is simply eroticly feminine and selfsufficient.

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Stefan Lupino: “Tina&Fish”, 1995.

Photography as a part of installation

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Ambiguity of woman individuum, is artisticly presented in Croatian artist Vlasta Delimar`s opus (installation “No name", 1993) Personal appearance streghtens not only her as sexualy conscious artist, but as mother, lover,wife, housewife, saint as well...

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Installation "No name", 1993 ( mirror, photography,paint, textile)