Flat image fields are desirable in photography in order to match the film plane and projection when the enlarging paper or projection screen lie on a flat surface.
There she more or less abandoned photography in order to devote her energies to International Red Aid, the Comintern's international social service agency.
"I try to apply the rules of contemporary art to news photography in order to make pictures that will be more likely to be looked at," he said.
Bacon stresses the similarity of life-casting to photography, in order to reveal the deathliness and violence of both in rendering brute fact.
It exposes the conceptual machinery behind "epic" photography in order to move beyond it, and the show, organized by Tim B. Wride, associate curator of photography at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, emphatically does.
Van der Elsken went on to produce several brilliant books and to embrace colour photography in order to capture the vitality of his native Holland, but he was never at ease with the world of commercial photography.
Because the curators — Roxana Marcoci, Sarah Meister and Eva Respini, all from the department of photography — have ordered the exhibition by date, we get a solid dose of late Victoriana in the opening room, with pictures by Julia Margaret Cameron and Gertrude Kasebier.
Not being concerned with realism, Avedon sometimes deliberately reproduces the imperfections of elementary photography in order to create pictures that have an unrehearsed and improvised — almost accidental — air about them.
There was to be no more work from a writer who had rapidly established himself as one of the most deeply serious and ambitious contemporary authors, whose fraught intelligence had reckoned, and self-reckoned, with the gravest questions of European history, and who had fearlessly founded a new literary form — combining essay, fiction, and photography — in order to probe those questions in new ways.
Shocked, most find themselves swept into the repeating barrage of photography in order to assimilate what seems surreal.
