Help design a photo history class

[John Rountree]

This spring I will be teaching a class in Contemporary Photo History. The class will be a follow up to my regular Photo History. The time frame is to start in the 1960's. I would appreciate any references (and especially links) to photographers you think should be included. I am really looking for photographers a little less well known than the "stars" like Annie Leibovitz, Eugene Richards, Martin Parr, Joseph Koudelka, Neil Liefer, etc. Thanks in advance for your help and input.

 

[tlitody]

This spring I will be teaching a class in Contemporary Photo History. The class will be a follow up to my regular Photo History. The time frame is to start in the 1960's. I would appreciate any references (and especially links) to photographers you think should be included. I am really looking for photographers a little less well known than the "stars" like Annie Leibovitz, Eugene Richards, Martin Parr, Joseph Koudelka, Neil Liefer, etc. Thanks in advance for your help and input.

do you want american or from other countries too. You can get several names just by looking at the robin bell thread that has just been running.

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=95611&highlight=bell

Also looking at National portrait gallery (UK) and probably other countries will get you lots more.

 

[aizan]

who is neil leifer? answer: the guy who took the cassius clay/sonny liston photo.

i don't know who are considered the usual suspects, but these are some photographers whose books don't seem to be that widely available (though they're easy enough to come across on the internet or in major cities):

chris killip
paul graham
graciela iturbide
gilles peress
boris mikhailov
malick sidibé
rob hornstra (great example of how to use the internet!)


you could also discuss important exhibitions:

new documents (1967)
new topographics (1975)
william eggleston's guide (1976)
... (gee, did anything go down in the 80s and 90s?)
andreas gursky retrospective (2001)
cruel and tender (2003)


and throw in the japanese magazine "provoke" (1968-1969).

 

[Chris101]

... gee, did anything go down in the 80s and 90s? ...

Susan Meiselas, Barbara Kruger, Arthur Tress, Mary Ellen Mark, William Wegman ... I could go on.

How do you plan to cover this critical period? Photography fundamentally changed during that time, right?

 

[ironhorse]

I'll add:

Brian Lanker "I Dream a World"

James Balog "Survivors, A New Vision of Endangered Wildlife"

 

[aizan]

but as far as exhibitions go? maybe sherrie levine's "after walker evans" in 1980.

hmm...and what were the seminal exhibitions of the düsseldorf school?

edit:

ah, something from the 90s! hiromix won the "canon new cosmos of photography" prize judged by nobuyoshi araki in 1995.

 

[John Rountree]

Chris, I intend to rely pretty heavily on the internet. But, our library has a good collection of books and will buy more. We also subscribe to Lenswork, B&W and Aperture. We also have an active and photo friendly art museum here. In December they will host the current Lee Friedlander show for three months. We will visit that show and other shows at other museums/galleries if they are available. If you know of any book(s) that could serve as a text, I would like to know about it. As far as the "stars" I mentioned some, but others I will include are Sally Mann, James Nacthway, Mary Ellen Mark, Rob Amberg, and others. Thanks for all the suggestions. Thanks for the video link , tiltody. I definitely want to (will) include photographers who are not American. I will be happy to have more suggestions.