Art-+Documentary+Photography+of+the+1930s

Historical Context (DC)
In the twenty-first century, we are accustomed to consuming a plethora of images on a daily basis, and we often have an ambiguous relationship with these visual materials. Viewers today do not feel consciusly conflicted when it comes to distinguishing between photographs that are presented as "art," usually appearing in the context of a museum or gallery, and photographs that are represented as "documentation," which often appear in the context of journalism; at the same time, we recognize that many photographs do in fact blur these boundaries. Photography first arrived in the United States in 1839 when Samuel Morse introduced the daguerreotype. Photography was put to work for documentary purposes during the Civil War. Matthew Brady (1822-96), a photographer based in Washington, D.C., sent a number of talented photographers into the field with portable darkrooms in order to collect imagery from the war.

Walker Evans, Negro Barbershop Interior (1936) (DC)
Walker Evans was born in Saint Louis, Missouri. He used a large 8 x 10 camera when in Paris and switched to a 35mm camera. The images from the 8 x 10 camera were crisp and extremely clear in detail because they are printed from a large negative.

Ansel Adams, Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico (1941) (DC)

 * //__Sample Questions:__//**
 * 1) Lange's //Migrant Mother, Nipomo California// shows the influence of her work as a(n) (Blank).
 * 2) Of greater portability, greater clarity, quicker set-up, less intrusiveness, and less weight, (Blank) is NOT an advantage of the hand-held camera.
 * 3) In addition to Abbott's New York photographs, she is also well-known for h//er (Blank).//
 * 4) Evans used a 35 mm camera to (Blank).
 * 5) Abbott's work is like that of Adams in that both were (Blank).
 * 6) The FSA's Stryker was skilled in getting photographs that (Blank).
 * 7) Some of the survey photographs of the western territories were used to (Blank).
 * 8) (Blank) is the name of the child the woman in //Migrant Mother// holds.
 * 9) Early Civil War photographs seem static and posed because (Blank).
 * 10) A(n) (Blank) is in the background of //Migrant Mother//.
 * 11) Of //Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Fortune, Many Are Called, American Economic Life, and The Crime of Cuba,// Walker Evans did NOT contribute to (Blank).
 * 12) (Blank) was the photographer who introduced Berenice Abbott to cityscape photography.
 * 13) The mirrors //in Negro Barber Shop Interior,// Atlanta are positioned at a (Blank) angle to each other.
 * 14) Documentary photography first became popular during (Blank).