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A History Of Photography

mporary, is still going to this day. In the 60's photography was accepted into the mainstream culture and began to be taught in higher education. Prominent photographers became lecturers in higher education. The curators of art galleries became taste makers because they chose the exhibits shown in the art galleries, and bring those exhibits to the public. The curators began to take photography seriously as an art form and for the first time photography was on an equal footing with paintings.In 1963 Dwayne Michaels produced a series of surrealist photographs based on his dreams. Also fashion and applied photography took off with photographers like David Bailey. Irving Penn took photos of tribes people in a studio, isolated from their contextual surroundings, to focus all the attention on the people. Diana Arbast (suicide 71 - self portrait) as well as Penn took "off the wall" photos. Andy Warhol took art influenced photographs, playing on repetition and using photographs he found rather than taking his own.Beschers view objectivity is truthful and real photography, a visual record of an event. Mundane and everyday photographs, an honest view objectivity, with just pictures that make no comment or statement, using the photographic way of seeing. Jenny Holtzer used photography to record writing on peoples arms. In 1992 Gillian Wearing produced "Signs That Say What You Want Them To Say And Not What Someone Else Wants You To Say" a collection of Photographs of people holding up boards with statements from the subjects....

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