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Lok at the tte ofthe esy What do you eect the eto discus? 4 Read the pasiage uk to find information abut the folowing + Robert Cape +The Wageum photo agerey + ny Wa b. For items 1-17, match statements to sections of the text (A, 8, Cor. Which section) mention the following? ‘+ Photogaphs of famous people have aways been popular 1 ‘+ European newspapers were the fist to use photography 252 news vehice 2 ‘The use of computers in photography has led to some ethical questions. 3 + Photography was discredited as a relable ews source when picture editing and montage was est use. 4 + Photographers escaping fom mainland Europe before the Second World War popularised news photograpty. 5 + Amt photograpy isthe photographing of historical fat. 6 + Advances in printing were instrumental in shaping theevauwun of pwn. 7 * Some thought that photography would be ashortved fashion 8 + Early in the twenteth century photography was already dealing with social sues. 9 ‘Photography became more popular with arts inthe lst quarter of the twentieth century. 10 ‘+ Modern technclogy has made photographs ayy to manpulate " The public cant get enough of celebrity photos. 2 TV news surpassed photojournalism in popula. B14 1+ Photejurnalam was the main means of pualihing news for over 40 year, 15 ‘© There ae certain historic. photographs whose authentcity coud never be doubted. 16 ‘shard to define photography. "7 What i? < Photography | Photography ended the lat century as it began it ~ inthe shadow of fine art. “Photography has been, and stil is tormented bythe ghost of painting,” wrote Roland Barthes in the 1970s, when painting was supposedly dea, and photography was making its most determined assault yet onthe museums and galleries of fine art. Since then, artists hae taken to the camera in increasing numbers, (and the acceptance of att made by photographic means is more or less complete). But the ghost cof painting still haunts photography, and wll continue to dos as tong asthe definition of a work of art relies on the existence of an orignal. ‘The most radkal imention to affect the fortunes of ‘Photography was that ofthe hal-tone printing process (around 1880), which meant that photographs could be transferred quiely, cieapy ain tage numbers on 1 the pages of ks, newspapers and magazines. Alter the First. World War, ‘newspapers in Germany and France popularised the use ofthe Picture essay 10 tell a news story. creating a new generation of freelance photographic reporters. Robert Capa (under his real name, Andre Friedmann), published his ist set of pictures (of “Trotsky addressing a aly in Copenhagen) in Der Welt Spiegel in 1932. The diaspora of editors and photographers from these papers, who fled to Britain and America after 1933, would contribute the core ideals of the two great English-speaking picture magazines, Picture Post and Life © Between the 20s and és, when television began to usurp its tole photojournalism vas a primary source of news fom around the world But the adage that “Uhe camera never ies” was challenged soon as it was tered, when, inthe 20s political satirist used photo-montage to criticise the German military and bourgeoisie, Our faith inthe truthteling capacity of as been sotogaps ‘eroded as much by the treks of atertsing. a8 ty political propaganda, tut when it mattered ~ when George Rodger * Vocabulary Practice 12 @ Match the highlighted words in the text with their synonyms below. saying = central « culture * take over ‘evolutionary + worn * skifuness # greedy ‘tortured * prove false Explain the undertined pars in your own wordsOne hundred years ago, some thought it a mere novelty. Yet it has proved itself to be not only the most democratic art form, but a weapon against injustice. It has filled the world with multiple images of itself. As the new century begins, we're familiar with it. But can we trust it? cstred Belen in 1945, say, or Margaret Bourke White entered Buchemald, or when someone with » camcorder reorded ‘viene of ethnic cleansing in Africa here was evidence that revsonsts found iffcult refute ‘A the begining ofthe last century. much was made ofthe IS cade between photographs concerned wth recording everydsy i, and those intended as “works of art. Alfred Stegtz beled it i to be numbered “Photogrepy i fad well rihon its las” he si, “thanks principally to the bie crue” He misundersiood its value to ordinary people Photography was the most democratic piture-making process sace pen al paper and, in most cases, the results were far more satisfactory. The family snapshot is photography’ greatest sucess this century We petsure our lives in pictures, we have teewed our omn eat, hstoncal roments. The emotional power of temary~ to hold your own pest inthe yal of your hand ~ has suvived century when the power of documentary and reportage photographs threatens to tecome exhausted © By 1910, painting was moving. towards atsvoction,Picterilsm petred ct, leaving its sunvor, nobly three Americans ~ Edvard Steichen, Peal Stand and Stitz = 10 find out what kind of art photography might be capable of in is own right. But while tris photographers had been gazing inwards, photographic teers ad pnt look outwards, and wae thei cameras 10 decumet soil inequality. cob Ris and Lewis Hine, from the fist decade of the century, established 4 tradition of socialy-commitedphotograpty that shaped the eos of the Magnum photo agency, founded in 1947 by Cartier Breson, Copa, Rodger and Seymour. By the lat 50s, in Brian and inthe US, photography was tecoming the subject of at As television slowly began to take * Text Analysis 413. @ Based on information in the text, match the dates on the left with the events on the right. “Geran and French photojouralsts fee to-America and titan 12. + Photographs manipulated beyond onatter 1933}| cognition with the use of computers TV begins to take over news reporting ‘sar * Robert Capa pubishes fist the 19605 photojouralstc pictues Invention of the hal-tone printing process the Magnum photo agency is founded over the reporting of tard news, magazines began 10 concentrate on make-believe. Andy’ Warhol used familiar photographic images (his famcus can of Heinz beans being one ‘of them) to poi out how all pervasive and manipulative mass- 80 ‘market images had become. He understood the power of the ‘conic photograph, which gained power wth repetition. The cult ofthe celebrity photograph had begun decades befor, when Sicichen accepted a contract to prone potas ofthe rich apd amorous for Vaniy’ Fai, triggering the insatiable public AS appetite that has led to the breed of quasicelebrites who inhabit the pages of OK! and Hello magazines ® ae b. Take turns to talk about the history of news photography from the beginning of the century Lntil today. Use the sentences in Ex. 13a as well as ‘ther information from the text. 1 1860, the ha tone printing process wes invented This ‘meant that photographs could be printed and reproduced very quickly * Discussion 14 Do you agree with the saying ‘the camera never lies"? Can you think of crcumstances where photographs do not tell the truth? What are the consequences? 89