Pictures Generation
The Pictures Generation is a name for American artists of the late 1970s and early 1980s who worked with images taken from films, advertising and magazines.
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was a period of Black art, music, writing and thought in Harlem, a neighbourhood of New York, in the 1920s and 1930s. One photographer recorded the life of this community more fully than anyone else: James VanDerZee.
New York School
The New York School is a name for a loose group of photographers who worked on the streets of New York from the late 1930s to the early 1960s. They did not form a club or sign a manifesto.
Humanist photography
A style of photography that focused on everyday people, their dignity and their daily lives, often with warmth and humor. It is especially linked to France from the 1930s to the 1950s.
Düsseldorf School
A group of photographers who studied with Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Kunstakademie (art academy) in Düsseldorf, where Bernd Becher taught photography from 1976. It is also called the Becher School.
New Topographics
The name of an exhibition held in 1975 at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, curated by William Jenkins. Its full title was New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape.
Farm Security Administration
A United States government agency of the 1930s whose photography project documented rural poverty during the Great Depression. The project ran from 1935 (first under the Resettlement Administration) to 1944, led by Roy Stryker. It is often shortened to FSA.
Magnum Photos
A highly esteemed international photographic cooperative, established in 1947 by four pioneering photographers - Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger, and David "Chim" Seymour. The agency is globally renowned for its extensive range of photographic styles, including photojournalism, documentary, and fine art photography, representing the work of a distinguished roster of photographers. These photographers maintain their individual artistic autonomy while contributing to a collective archive and participating in a cooperative business structure. Magnum Photos Agency is distinguished by its commitment to preserving photographers' copyright, ensuring creative control, and promoting high-quality, impactful images that capture significant moments in history, culture, and the human experience. The agency's collaborative ethos and dedication to excellence have made it a leading force in the world of photography for over seven decades.
Group f/64
The group of like-minded photographers located in San Francisco who came together in 1932 to form a collective with the goal of producing photographs of landscapes and other natural forms that are distinct and clearly focused. Members such as Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, and Imogen Cunningham were a part of this club. The predilection of the members of the group to use an extremely tiny aperture in order to achieve greater depth of field is alluded to by the name of the group.
Surrealism
Initiated in France during the 1920s and 1930s as a revolutionary literary and art movement, it immediately became extremely popular throughout the world and influenced a broad collection of activities among the creative arts. Like the rest of Surrealism, Surrealist photography tried to blend pictures from many realms of experience, such as dreams, objects, and other art forms, to emphasize and perhaps resolve the inconsistencies between psychological and social realities.