Deadpan
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Deadpan photography moves the art form away from hyperbolic or subjective styles by engaging viewers with emotive subjects while not revealing the photographer's emotions, instead using technical precision and visual information to command understanding. These deadpan photos, presented pristinely and rich in detail, lent themselves well to galleries becoming privileged sites for viewing photography.
![The adoption of deadpan aesthetics moves art photography
outside the hyperbolic, sentimental and subjective. -
Charlotte Cotton, [The Photograph as Contemporary Art, 81]](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/deadpan-140527103349-phpapp02/85/Deadpan-2-320.jpg)
Deadpan
- 2. The adoption of deadpan aesthetics moves art photography outside the hyperbolic, sentimental and subjective. - Charlotte Cotton, [The Photograph as Contemporary Art, 81]
- 3. These pictures may engage us with emotive subjects, but our sense of what the photographers emotions might be is not the obvious guide to understanding the meaning of the images.
- 5. Laurenz Berges –Perleberg 1992 Candida hofer Ballettzentrum, Hamburg III, 2000
- 6. Deadpan photographs, so technically well done, pristine in their presentation, Rich with visual information, and with a commanding presence, lent themselves well To the newly privileged site of the gallery as a place for seeing photography.
- 8. August sander The Face of Our Time 1929.