History of Photography

Points for Consideration 1) What factors contributed to the trend toward smaller negatives and enlarging? 2) What was the “precisionist” movement in photography? Who participated? 3) When and how did commercially feasible color photography come about? 4) Which photographers decided to use small cameras? On what principles and ideas did they base their choice? 5) Which photographers decided to keep using large cameras? On what principles and ideas did they base their choice? 6) What issues occupied photographers of the late 20th Century? 7) What is “conceptual photography”? 8) Did photography become modern, or did it start out that way? 9) What was the Bauhaus? Who were the photographers associated with it? 10) Why did Weston, Adams, et. al. form “Group f/64”? How was it different from Stieglitz’s “Photo Secession?”