Contemporary Photography Midterm Exam Image List

Name
View from His Window at Le
Gras
Self Portrait as a Drowned
Man
Onion Fields

Photographer (with class #)

Joseph Nicphore Nipce (C3)

Significance
First permanent photograph

Hippolyte Bayard

Fake protest selfie (self portrait)

George Davison (C4)

Forest of Fontainebleau

Gustave Le Gray

The Sphinx and Great Pyramid

Geezeh
Two Ways of Life
Fading Away
River Scene, La Vallee de
lHuisne, France
The Horse in Motion

Francis Frith

Officially started pictoralist

photo movement
First photo showing leaves
clearly
Early travel photograph

Family living in a one-room

tenement slum, New York City,
1890
Red Wing-Apsaroke

Jacob Riis

Winter on Fifth Avenue, 1892

Alfred Stieglitz (C5)

Georgia O'Keeffe (Hands)

(1919)

Alfred Stieglitz

The Steerage

Alfred Stieglitz

The Seven Last Words

F. Holland Day (C6)

Ring Toss

Clarence H. White

Portrait of Miss Evelyn Nesbit,

1902

Gertrude Ksebier

Eleonore, 1901

Eva Watson-Schtze

Oscar Gustav Rejlander

Henry Peach Robinson
Camille Silvy
Eadweard J. Muybridge

Edward S. Curtis

Early composite image

Early composite image
Made with two negatives and
added trees
First image showing horses
legs off the ground while
running
Used to bring about
government reform of slums
Staged Indian documentary
image
Taken in harsh weather and
cropped significantly
Pictoralist image of Georgia
OKeefe that sold for 1.47
million dollars
Travel photograph showing
division of rich and poor that
was forgotten for years
Self-portrait as Jesus after
weeks starving to be thinner
Pictoralist image that influenced
painting styles of common
subjects like friends and family
Pictoralist image by one of the
female Secessionist group
members
Published in Volume four of
Camera Notes

The Pond Moonrise (1904)

Edward Steichen

Greta Garbo, 1928

Edward Steichen

Rodin The Thinker, 1902

Edward Steichen

Wall Street, 1915

Paul Strand

Abstraction, Porch Shadows,

Connecticut, 1915
Blind Woman, 1916

Paul Strand

Cour 41, Rue Broca, 1912

Eugne Atget (C7)

Shop Window, Tailor

Dummies, c. 1910
St. Cloud, 1915-1919

Eugne Atget

Behind Saint-Lazare Train

Station (1932)
Sunday on the banks of the
River Seine 1938
Portrait of Eugne Atget,
1927

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Gunsmith and Police Station,

New York, 1937
New York, c. 1945

Berenice Abbott

Young Farmers in their Sunday

Best (1914

August Sander

"Pastry Cook, 1928

August Sander

Soldier-c. 1940

August Sander

Fleeing a Dust Storm, 1936"

Arthur Rothstein

Migrant Worker, 1936

Dorothea Lange

Alabama Tenant Farmer Wife,

1936

Walker Evans

Paul Strand

Eugne Atget

Henri Cartier-Bresson
Berenice Abbott

Helen Levitt (C8)

Important pictoralist image that

sold for 2.928 Million dollars
Early fashion photograph by
important fashion photographer
Pictoralist image of a famous
sculptor
Early realist photograph
showing movement in the city
Early realist photograph
showing abstraction
Early realist photograph
showing street portrait
Street photograph showing the
character of worn building
Used by surrealists magazine
though it was not surrealistic
One of many images taken of
the same subject/location
Famous image of the decisive
moment
Decisive image of a typical
picnic scene in France
Photo of obscure master
photographer just before his
death
Street image by promoter of
Eugne Atget
Street photograph by early
female New York School
photographer
Face of Our Time photograph
showing men headed to a
dance
Face of Our Time photograph
showing chef in kitchen
Face of Our Time photograph
showing Nazi soldier
Iconic FSA photo showing dry
farming conditions
Most famous FSA photo that
came to symbolize the time
Classic modernist image
showing poor farmers wife

Auto parts shop, Atlanta,

Georgia, 1936

Walker Evans

(Subway passengers)

Walker Evans

Avenue-du-Bois-de-Boulogne,
Paris
Excusado, 1925

Jacques-Henri Lartigue

Nautilus, 1927

Edward Weston

Neil, 1925

Edward Weston

Calla, 1925

Imogen Cunningham

Imogen and Twinka at

Yosemite
Mount Williamson, Sierra
Nevada, from Manzanar,
California, 1944
Moonrise, Hernandez New
Mexico, 1945
Child in Forest, 1951

Judy Dater

The drum major for the

University of Michigan marching
band high-steps as children
follow suit, 1950
Walk to Paradise Garden,
1946
Parade, Hoboken, New Jersey,
1955
Post-cards from Hoover Dam,
1955
Elevator, Miami Beach, 1955

Alfred Eisenstaedt

Child with Toy Hand Grenade

in Central Park, New York City,
1962
Identical Twins, Roselle, New
Jersey, 1967
A Young Man in Curlers at

Diane Arbus

Edward Weston (C9)

Ansel Adams (C10)

Ansel Adams
Wynn Bullock

W. Eugene Smith
Robert Frank (C11)
Robert Frank
Robert Frank

Diane Arbus
Diane Arbus

Realist (modernist) image

showing the photographers
puritanical objectivity
Taken with hidden camera of
common people in the subway
Taken by child photographer in
affluent French family
Modernist image that shows the
importance of form not subject
Modernist photograph by F/64
master that sold for 1.08 Million
Modernist image later
appropriated by Sherry
Levine
Plant abstraction image by
female F/64 member
Feminist image with elderly
famous F/64 member and nude
F/64 image shot near Japanese
internment center
Famous image by F/64 most
popular pictoralist member
First image shown in the Family
of Man exhibition
Family of Man image described
as happiest photograph ever

Last image shown in the Family

of Man exhibition
Americans image showing the
problems with nationalism
Americans image showing
effect of technology on nature
Americans image showing girl
and blurred demons
Freak photograph taken of
normal boy in New York
Freak photograph showing
normal, but unusual sisters
Freak photograph showing

Home on West 20th Street,

NYC, 1966
Central Park Zoo, 1967

transvestite
Garry Winogrand

New York Worlds Fair, 1964

Garry Winogrand

New York, 1968

Garry Winogrand

Twenty six gasoline stations

(1962-1963)
Every building on the Sunset
Strip (1967)
Photo from Royal road test
(1967)

Ed Ruscha

Road and Poplar Trees, in the

Vicinity of Naples and Dansville,
New York, 1955
Nancy, Danville, Virginia,
1969
Buildings on Tremont Street,
Boston, 1975"

Minor White (C12)

Mobile homes, Jefferson

County, Colorado, 1973

Robert Adams (C13)

Tract Housing, North Glenn

and Thrornton, Colorado,
1973
Burning Oil Sludge, North of
Denver, Colorado, 1973-1974

Robert Adams

Construction Detail, East Wall,

Xerox, 1821 Dyer Road, Santa
Ana, 1974
East Wall, Western Carpet
Mills, 1231, Warner, Tustin,
1974

Lewis Baltz

Industrial Landscape,

Bernd & Hilla Becher

Ed Ruscha
Ed Ruscha

Emmet Gowin
Nicholas Nixon

Robert Adams

Lewis Baltz

New York School

photographers image showing
racial satire
New York School
photographers image showing
social park bench
Funny cover photo for
Women are Beautiful book by
New York School photographer
Image from conceptualist
painters first photo book
Accordion image showing
buildings in LA
Image showing results of
throwing a typewriter out of a
moving truck
Infrared image by spiritual cofounder of Aperture magazine
Family snapshot showing
body wisdom
Image by New Topographics
photographer (and 40-year
series of Brown sisters)
Beautiful (lyrical) topographic
image of ugly temporary
housing in the west
Beautiful (lyrical) topographic
image of ugly suburban
development in the west
Beautiful (lyrical) topographic
image of ugly smoke in
landscape
Ideal photographic document
of construction by intellectual
topographic photographer
Minimalist ideal photographic
document of rug factory by
intellectual topographic
photographer
Early pictoralist image by

Finnentrop, Sauerland,
Germany, 1962
Gasometers, Germany, 1963
92
Framework Houses,
Wiesenstrasse, 35 Siegen,
1993

Bernd & Hilla Becher

Bernd & Hilla Becher

objective German husband and

wife team
Grid typology image of
industrial structure by objective
German husband and wife team
Grid typology image of houses
by objective German husband
and wife team