Futurism, constructivism Russian revolution, soviet union 1917
- Gustav Klutis was an artist and is accociated with the constructivism movement. Best known for his political posters which made pioneering use of photo montage. Klutis worked with a variety of experimental media. He liked to use propaganda as a sign or revolutionary background image. His first project was in 1922 was a series of semi-portable mulitimedia agiprop kiosks to be installed on the streets of moscow, intergreting "radio-orators", film screens, and newsprint displays, he also worked in sculpture, produced exhibition installations illustrations and ephemera.
- Alexsander Mikhuilovich. 1891-1956
- Sigmund Freud
- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka is about Gregor Samsa who wakes up to find himself transformed into a large insect.
- Metropolis was a german expressionist film by Frtitz Lang and is science fiction. Made in Germany during the Weimar period, Metropolis is set in a futuristic urban dystopia. It was filmed in 1925 and i think is very modern for the time.
Art
- Hannah Hock is best known for her work of the Weimar period, when she was one of the originators of photo montage.
- Laszlo Moholy Nagy was a Hungarian painter and photographer as wellas professor in the Bauhaus school. He was highly influenced by constructivism and a strong advocate of technology and industry into the arts.
The Decisive moment
- Henri Cartier Bresson was a French photographer considered to be the father of photojournalism. One of the first photographers to work in 35mm lens. He believed in not editing a photograph.
"To take a photograph is to hold one’s breath when all faculties converge in a face of fleeing reality. It is at that moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy."
America wakes up and looks upwards.
- Charlie Chaplin modern times 1936
- Paul Strand
- Walker Evans
- Gordan Parks
- Dorothea lange
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