1. What was “The Face of the Times”?
It was a human typology created by August Sander (Germany 1920’s). He used system of categorization based on 7 social types. His photographs had meaning hidden behind them, showing things which can’t be spoken of, like the chaos in Germany in 1920’s.
2. Which magazine did Rodchenko design?
USSR In Construction
3. What is photo-montage?
A graphic technique which was inspired on cinema montage.
4. Why did Eugene Atget use albumen prints in the 1920’s?
You could print them in the sunshine instead of darkroom. He admitted he didn’t know how to use contemporary materials in order to make his prints last better.
5. What is solarisation and how was it discovered?
Discovered by Man Ray in 1920s, makes people look like their faces are made from aluminium.
6. What was the relationship between Bernice Abbott and Eugene Atget?
They were both a documentary photographers.
7. Why was Walker Evans fired from the FSA?
Evans couldn’t make his vision conform to the propaganda requirements of the FSA, so therefore he got fired in 1937.
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