Just joined the FB group and after watching this GREAT video, it's wild to see that i've shot for years with an eye like this....and hadn't heard of any of this style or these iconic shooters. THANK YOU! I somehow feel like...i'm okay!
This was visually delicious. Living in a city drives me. It is incredible the level of convenience we've been able to achieve, but it feels so far removed from the natural world that I start to feel sick if I dwell on it for too long. All of these photos do a great job of capturing that feeling.
Nice work. I'm relatively new to your channel, and am finding some very interesting stuff in your back catalog! I grew up on Ansel Adams, having been born in 1950, and discovered Elliott Porter in the '70s, but have never seen the work you show in this video. Well done! Many thanks. P.S. I think you mentioned Chicago, somewhere? My beloved home town, though I live in the Atlanta area now.
You should mention the curator's name, Bill (William) Jenkins, who recently retired as a tenured professor of photography, yet continues to teach at ASU.
I just discovered your channel, it is amazing. This particular video dates back to 2017, yet glad I found it now in 2020. Brilliant job you did, very inspiring, even though I had learn about these photographers and their work during my time at the art academy it is always nice to refresh the mind with a well made video. Thanks a lot for making and sharing this!
Love this analysis. Frank Gohlke actually said people hated the exhibit at first - which just goes to show how much of a rapid departure it was from the pristine nature photos of Ansel Adams and the socially conscious, 'life on the street' photography that was so popular through first half of the 1900's. The pictures lacked both pristineness and human diginity - and they looked boring as hell! Love it.
People did not exactly « hate » it as it was seen by very few people. Just like Frank’sThe Americans there were some negative comments (but far fewer). Do not forget that at the time Baltzwas represented by Costelli in NYC, meaning not everybody hated that type of photography.
1:34 That's the Green Mountain! Looks like the photo was taken from what is now Dinosaur Tracks park....weird to think there were mobile homes there once upon a time. Now most of Jefferson County is upper middle class people who like it for the plethora of parks along the hogback.
Nice « deconstruction » of the Robert Adams photograph. A few wishes: the second most important (if not the first) photographer in that show was probably Lewis Baltz, I wish you had spent some time on his work far more radical than any other; you picked a good example with the photograph by Frank Gohlke that you analyze, however 1-its proportions have been modified (originally it is square, 22x22 cm) and from his own admission Gohlke was too green at the time of New Topo and had not yet figured out his photography; finally toward the end you show several photographs from New Topo without mentioning the authors (ethical and legal issue). I still salute your work ;0)
This is informative - I like the the breakdown of the images. Sorry to say, though, that the delivery is monotonous and in need of some pitch changes, pauses and so on.
He did not abandon humans: they abandoned/disappointed him, he has been looking at life in general rather than being centered on human atrocities, and advocating as well as working at solutions for us and the rest of the planet.
