Podsadecki, 'City Mill of Life', 1929
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Rodchenko, 1932
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Kazimierz Podsadecki was a polish visual artist and painter born in 1904. He created graphic art. He was interested in photomontage and experimental films. He was born in Zabierzów near Kraków in 1904.His photomontages are a mixture of stylist constructivism and a grotesque inspired by surrealism and new photography.
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Alexander Rodchenko was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia in 1891 but moved to Kazan in 1905. His photography was influenced by the Russian revolution and used his montages to serve the revolution. He incorporated aesthetics, politics and everyday life into his photography. He worked in the media in advertisements with bold language and theatre design for politically charged, radical theatre.
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Thomas Annan-Glasgow,1839
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Jacob Riss How
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Stiglitz-1902
Stiglitz photographed the city detached with the chaos surrounding it by abandoning the street of any human existence. This brought an idealism into his images that was quite spiritual. |
Weegee-1940
Weegee got a police radio and went to the locations the read out on it to capture the danger on the streets. He captured several murders including one in Hells kitchen in 1940. |
Walker Evans- 1938-1941
Walker Evans photographed people on the subway by hiding his camera under his coat to try and capture them off guard as they would be normally to get a sense of the lonliness in the city. |
Bruce Davidson-1980s
Bruce Davidson continued this work by riding the subway at night to see the dangers there. |