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Lecture Notes


  • Colour Photography
  • Eggleston
  • Szarkowski had seen work previously but did not think the public was ready
  • Stephen Shore - personal statement - early colour photos
  • Helen Levitt
  • Mitch Epstein
  • Light gallery in NY in early 70s
  • Joel Sternfeld
  • Shore did 'Tall in Texas' as postcards - saturated
  • Levitt - gritty urbaness - elements of colour highlights debris in the streets
  • Meyerowitz - snapshot aesthetic
  • What they were interested in - personal statement
  • Sonneman
  • Slavin - used colour to differentiate personalities
  • Commercial aesthetic? Photographed individual groups
  • Krims - conceptual, polaroid transfers
  • They all informed how we see colour today
  • Groover
  • Divola - colour spectrum, getting it real
  • Sternfeld uses more narrative - shots appear set up
  • Jeff Wall
  • The word 'colour' was dropped in 1984
  • Nan Goldin - Ballad - in 1986 the word 'photography' was dropped