Sunday, March 6, 2011

America, Seen Through Photographs, Darkly.

Key Points:
 - Walt Whitman tried to push past beauty and ugliness and tried to look at things for how they actually were
 - Edward Steichen helped portray beautiful photography of things that aren't typically labelled as "beautiful"
 - Walker Evans & Alfred Stieglitz took "real pictures" - not trying to capture beauty, but reality.
 - Arbus' photographs convey the anti-humanist message; she always has a purpose with her photographs

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