Post Moderism

Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye, Poissy, 1928 - 9

Jean Tinguely ‘Homage To New York’, 1960

Mies Van der Rohe and Philip Johnson, Seagram Building, New York, 1957

Park Hill Flats, Sheffield, c.1960

Proposed regeneration by Urban Splash

James Stirling, Neue Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany, 1977 - 1983

Future Systems, Selfridges, Birmingham, 1999 - 2003

“Is somebody proposing to dive from this tower?”

Prince Charles (1984), A Vision of Britain: A Personal View of Architecture, London, Doubleday, p. 67

Roy Lichtenstein ‘This Must Be the Place’ 1965

LAS VEGAS - POSTMODERN CITY?

Robert Venturi (1972)

Andy Warhol

‘Oxidation Painting’, Copper metallic paint and urine on canvas, 78 x 218 ins., 1978

Piero Manzoni ‘Artists Shit’ 1961

Sottsass – Memphis group

Quote 2 (cont)  ‘…..now you can reinvent yourself endlessly, gaily pick ‘n’ mixing your way through the gaudy fragments of a shattered culture’

Adbusters-Design Anarchy issue 2001

New Media and Visual Culture

Oliviero Toscani Benneton Campaign

‘Leeds 13’

Richard Hamilton Just What is it That Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing? (1956)

Roy Lichtenstein Whaam (1963)

Jollock Vs Roy 

Warhol Marilyns (1962)

Warhol

Ambulance Disaster (1963)

Advertising and New Media

Sunlight Soap: 

William Hesketh Lever (1851)

George Cruikshank (Etching) All the World Going to See the Great Exhibition of 1851. 

The soap men’s extensive use of contemporary paintings in their advertising is a case in point:

Image used in Sunlight soap ad with a caption ‘So Clean’

The New Frock 1889 William Powell Frith 

Product placement clock & cup + brand loyalty

The Wedding Morning 1892

John Henry Frederick Bacon  

‘Many of his early ads emphasised that Sunlight soap would save women.

Answer: washing day toil, solution; Sunlight

Copy: a girl of 12 or 13 can do a large wash without being tired.

Ease a repeated theme 

OLD SPICE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owGykVbfgUE

OLD SPICE PROPOSAL... TWITTER FAN PAGE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-fLV28SkZ8

MENTOS MEN... viral add.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKoB0MHVBvM

The Document

Photography:

"I have been a witness, and these pictures are my testimony. The events I have recorded should not be forgotten and must not be repeated."

James Nachtwey

 

Sudan 1993, Palistine 2000, Rwanda 1994

Frances Frith (1857) ‘Entrance to the Great Temple’

 

 

Jacob Ribs- 1888 Bandits Roost, 1887 A growler gang in session (robbing a lush)

Lewis Hine, Russian steel workers, Homestead, Pa., 1908

Roger Fenton (1855) ‘Into the Valley of the Shadow of death’

William Edward Kilburn ‘The Great Chartist Meeting At The Common’ 1848

“photography achieves its highest distinction – reflecting the universality of the human condition in a never-to-be-retrieved fraction of a second”

Cartier-Bresson

F.S.A Photographers 1935-44 
Director Roy Stryker
Depression- 11 million unemployed.
Photographys used as Photojournalism and Emotive Lobbying Tool.

Dorothea Lange (1936) ‘Migrant Mother’

Walker Evans ‘Graveyard, Houses & Steel Mill, Bethlehem, Pennysylvania’, 1935

Mass Observation 1937-1960's
Tom Harrison
Charles Madge
Humphery Jennings
Humphrey Spender

Cesare Lombroso ‘Portraits of Italian & German Criminals’ 1889

Carl Dammann  ‘Ethnographic & Photographic Gallery of Various Races of Mankind, 1870-1

War Conflict Photography

Robert Capa ‘Normandy, France’ 1945

Magnum Group
founded 1947 by Cartier Bresson & Capa
Documenting the WORLD and its SOCIAL PROBLEMS

Internationalism & Mobility

Robert Haeberle (1969)

Nick Ut (1972) ‘Accidental Napalm Attack’

Don McCullin (1968) ‘Shell Shocked Soldier’

Gillian Wearing
Signs that say what you want them to say 1992-3

HUMANITARIAN PERSPECTIVE
PORTRAY SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SITUATIONS
Objective to the facts of the situation
People tend to form the SUBJECT MATTER
Tend to be STRAIGHTFORWARD and UNMANIPULATED