ART HIS 42C Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Flag Of Japan, Screen Printing, Hiroshima Peace Memorial
1 Jul 2018
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PHOTOGRAPHY
● Realism: photojournalism, very little pretension to art, some would be offended if their
work was called “art”; were printed in newspapers rather than seen in art museums,
photography became a huge industry, Japan became a huge manufacturer of cameras,
photography becomes a popular pursuit, exposing people to the problems
○ What you see is something that is out there in the world
● Individualism: a desire for the photographer to be an artist; is a creative individual with a
unique vision; Mishima Yukio - piece of visual theatre (bizarre, not everyday
circumstance); transposed over another picture (Italian baroque painting)
● Provoke: name of a journal, published briefly; centered on use of photography for a
philosophical inquiry (how images make people think about the world)
○ Intentionally “bad” photography - blurry, sky looks like concrete
Document Summary
What you see is something that is out there in the world. Individualism: a desire for the photographer to be an artist; is a creative individual with a unique vision; mishima yukio - piece of visual theatre (bizarre, not everyday circumstance); transposed over another picture (italian baroque painting) Provoke: name of a journal, published briefly; centered on use of photography for a philosophical inquiry (how images make people think about the world) Intentionally bad photography - blurry, sky looks like concrete. Coal mines fallen on hard times - hundreds and thousands of them were laid off because of top-down economic system (trying to recover from war) Rationalizing the coal industry: government focused less on coal and more on foreign petroleum families suffered. Black feather donation campaign: helped children of coal mining factories. They"re trying to pick out coal bits that are still left and sell them/use them themselves for warmth.
