Notes

10 January 2018
Brief history of photography
    • Boulevard du Temple ; Louis Daguerre; 1838
      • First daguerreotype
      • First known candid photo with a person
    • Camera obscura
      • Used to assist artists with their art
    • Pinhole camera
    • View from the Window at Le Gras; 1826; Nicéphore Niépce
      • First permanent photo
      • (latent image)
    • L'Atelier de l'artistte; 1837; daguerreotype by Daguerre
      • Beginning of black and white photography (copper plate)
    • Calotypes
      • William Fox Talbot and John Herschel (1800-1887)
      • Plants from 1841
      • Liquid light
      • Calotype is direct predecessor to chemical film
    • Becomes popular when French government makes the tech public
      • Daguerreotypes, calotypes, tintype
      • Portraits became popular
      • 1860 tintype
        • Image became more clear and longer-lasting
    • George Eastman 1880s
      • Kodak camera in 1888
      • Popularized use of rolls of film
      • Brownie camera in 1901
        • Photography became really popular after this
    • Color photography
      • First one (with three color method by James Clerk Maxwell) by Thomas Sutton in 1861
      • Angouleme in France image; first color image on paper
      • Autochrome
        • First commercially successful color process
        • Lumière brothers
      • Kodachrome
        • First commercially viable color film
    • Early 20th century
      • Eadweard Muybridge, Thoroughbred bay mare "Annie G" galloping, human and animal locomotion, plate 626, 1887 (zoetrope)
      • Henri Cartier-Bresson, behind the Gare St. Lazare, 1932
        • He was a pioneer of photojournalism
        • Decisive moment
      • Alfred Stieglitz, the terminal, photogravure, 1892
        • Photo secessionist
      • Above two people brought art into photography
    • Industrialization
      • August sander, disabled man, 1926; pastry chef, 1928; secretary at a radio station, cologne, 1931
        • Tried to capture how German people lived their lives (lots and lots of people); from an anthropological perspective
        • Environmental photography
      • Changed what photography was thought to be
    Postmodernism
    • Rene Magritt's painting, pipe
    • Robert frank, parade, 1955
    • After wwii~1960s start point
    • Is a way of thinking more than a style
    • Society is influenced by photographs; key tenant of postmodernism
    • Cynical view of the fake truth that had been perpetuated by images
    • Investigating its effect on our psyches and identities
    • Modernism was about objectivity, event-oriented
    • Postmodernism is more subjective, situational, and personalized
    • Pop art
      • Took symbols of mainstream and commercial culture and appropriated them
      • Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg
      • Edward Weston, 1970s
      • Maidenform woman
        • Selling the subtext of empowerment through the use of the briefcase, coat, executive helicopter; creates a sense of power; challenges the male gaze
      • Frank Majore, Blue Martini, 1983
        • Uses the style of advertisements; breaks the notion of commercial photography being of lesser value
        • Indicating upper middle class status through background and lights
      • Frank Majore Bollinger advertisement
      • Appropriation
        • It's increasingly hard to create anything entirely new when you're being bombarded by images
        • Mocking how images are accepted and how people think they can make something new
        • Interested in
        • Richard prince
          • Rephotographed magazine advertisements and resized them and displayed them in museums
        • Sherrie Levine
          • Pictures taken by Walker Evans
          • They became cultural images of the great depression; she is saying that the images belong to the culture now

    Comments

    Post a Comment

    Popular posts from this blog

    Week 02 Photographer - Lorenzo Scudiero

    Image
    Lorenzo Scudiero is a photographer and filmmaker from Italy; his work contains a lot of portrait and landscape photography done in analogue film. He tries to capture different ways of seeing things,  and places more value on portraying something in a unique way than portraying a unique subject. I really enjoy his work and the aesthetic that he creates through the usage of analogue film. His experience in film is evident in his photos; they have a cinematographic aspect. Many of the portraits seem very natural feel like they could be right out of your memory, but with a bit of an added fantastical effect. The way he shows things from unusual perspectives is one of his best strengths as a photographer.
    Read more

    Week 04 Photographer - Christian Tagliavini

    Image
    Christian Tagliavini is a Swiss-Italian photographer that I found this week. His work is really interesting; some of his work blends the line between 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional representation in photography, while others combine Renaissance-style portraits with modern touches. Much of his work blends aesthetics of the past, present, and future into a fascinating amalgam. Some of his photos also have a strong narrative element; they feature unconventional characters that make you think about what the story going on in the photos is about.
    Read more