How have Edward Weston and Aaron Siskind (above) been influenced by the Straight Photography Movement?

 

Aaron Siskind started approaching Straight Photography at around 1940 and identified the ideas and styles. In the later photographs he continued to emphasize the modernist concern with the flatness of the picture plane, but intensified his approach to picture making – with close-up framing, as well as emphasis on texture, line, and visual rhymes – creating abstract images of the real world.

 

What makes the work of contemporary photographers Andreas Gursky and Uta Barth abstract? Can they be classified as pictorialist or straight photographers? Explain your response.

 

Andreas Gursky was decisive in creating a new standard in contemporary photography, a pioneer who furthered the possibilities of scale and ambition.  His use of large-format cameras, scanning, digital manipulation, the layering of multiple pictures to create a cohesive image, and technical postproduction positioned him as an important bridge between the old ways of shooting and presenting pictures and the current highly, technologically advanced era of photography.

 

Citations:

“Aaron Siskind Artist Overview and Analysis”. [Internet]. 2024. TheArtStory.org
Content compiled and written by Kara Fiedorek
Edited and published by The Art Story Contributors
Available from: https://www.theartstory.org/artist/siskind-aaron/
First published on 05 Jun 2014. Updated and modified regularly
[Accessed 20 Sep 2024]

“Andreas Gursky Artist Overview and Analysis”. [Internet]. 2024. TheArtStory.org
Content compiled and written by Hope Guzzo
Edited and revised, with Summary and Accomplishments added by Kimberly Nichols
Available from: https://www.theartstory.org/artist/gursky-andreas/
First published on 21 Sep 2017. Updated and modified regularly
[Accessed 20 Sep 2024]