it was a set up photograph. Her photographer was Lewis Wickes Hines, who was concerned with social reform. He was born in Wisconsin in 1874. He took photos at Ellis Island and became interested in photojournalism and the first immigrants plus child labour and the immigrants on construction sites “The men on the beam” who worked with no safety measures. It was social reform that her photographer was after.
made from actors posing whilst the photographers took over 20 photographs and composites it to re-enact the scene and this was the forerunner to Photoshop. This trial was in 1924-1926. She showed war photography that was faked and the divorce cas of Daddy Browning and his wife Peaches.
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Loris talked about • Christina Broom the 1st female Press Photographer, who was entirely self taught • 1914 Newspaper clippings of a man with a bomb strapped to himself • 1928 Press Photographers and that in those days photographers weren’t credited for their photos. Loris showed graphic photos of a lynching in Georgia and talked about ethics of yesteryear and today. She mentioned in the lynching photo the fact that the bystanders seemed to be oblivious to the plight of the hanged man and more interested in having their photos taken and that the institutional ethics of the Government of the time were wrong, by allowing this to happen, trying to control the people. Loris also showed Afghanistan “Kill Team” 5th Stryker Brigade, which was also very confronting. She debated that we are not more ethical today and showed the 1928 Electrocution photo of Ruth Snyder, who murdered her husband together with her partner. The New York Daily got a photographer to go in take the photo with a camera strapped to his leg. Tom Howard was the photographer, and he got a job at the White House after that. She showed the photo of Alice Rejlander, in 1924, half naked in front of the court, because she was accused of being coloured and a compos it graph was
Rodchenko who was part of the Russian Art Movement at the time of the Dada movement and his art as well. He was also a sculptor and graphic artist. She showed posters of
Mayokovsky, and The workers putting a fat pig on two swords. Mayokovsky was a friend of Rodchenko. She showed the Dimitri Moor poster with workers soldiers + sailors. The 1924 poster to encourage literacy and it was interesting with the photomontage in it. She also showed “Girl with Leica” and Stairway and talked about his foreshortening of photos and that his photos were taken on the diagonal in many instances.
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