1. How can photography change our relationship to things?

Without photography, we will never notice how the actual moon looks like. Photography allowed us to examinate the substance in a better way. In the ancient days where cameras are not being invented, people are only able to have a drawing of her/his self in order to post it to anywhere. Which further led to many puzzles about how the person actually looks like. With camera and photography, we are able to take pictures that looks exactly the same and being able to look more closely

2.What is pictorialism?

It is a type of photography skills that strongly emphasize the beauty of the subject matter, rather than the documentation of the reality.

3.What is abstract photography?

abstract photography is a visual expression that does not actually represent anything, but leaving a unlimited imagination to the audiences and let they interpret what is it truly sending

4.Write a (very) short biography of Albert Renger-Patzsch (just 1 or 2 sentences).

Albert Renger-Patzsch was a Germany photographer associated with the Objectivity

5.From looking at his images above, What types of subjects do you think Albert Renger-Patzsch preferred to photograph?

Repetition, most of his photos are focused on the repetition of nature substances

6.Why do you think he entitled his famous book, ‘The World is Beautiful’?

Most of his photograph are about the nature, however mostly black and white. This might indicates that he was trying to imply that the world is beautiful, but not through the lens, but through your own eyes.

7.Why do you think Edward Weston moved away from the soft-focus of pictorialism to the new Straight photography movement? – the idea that ordinary objects and scenes can be photographed to reveal their beauty

At first, Edward Weston was taking photos of humans, and the photograph were mostly fancy and emphasizing the beauty. However after getting tired of taking these, he than changed his style to small things. Pepper, coral, anything small can attract his attention. Therefore, he started to love how people can reveal the actual beauty from looking at a ordinary surface of a photograph.

8.Give examples of one of his pictorials images and one of his straight images.

 

9.How has Aaron Siskind (above been influenced by the Staight Photography Movement

during a trip to Ohio, he was fascinated by the brute beauty of the industrial complex and enormous smoke stack. Then he decided to take a photo of the view and this photograph and other series was the turning point from pictorialism to straight photography

10.Name some other photographers that have been influenced by straight photography

László Moholy-Nagy

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Frederick Henry Evans

Paul Strand

 

  1. What makes the work of Andreas Gursky and Uta Barth abstract. Are they straight photographers? Why?

I believe the reason why their works are both abstract is because the work does not represent anything by its own. Also both of them used the repetition technique. Furthermore, I believe that Uta Barth is a straight photographer since some of his work has capture the movement of time passes.