19th Feb – NMP
Joe Cornish
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Aesthetically pleasing
· Picturesque
· Technical
· Picturesque
· Technical
Robert Cappa – D-day
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Factual
Indian Wall Painting
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Hand prints
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Inside a small cave
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Making a mark
Becher
· Didn’t want it to be
aesthetically pleasing
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Formal
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Organic
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Phallic
Dibutades
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About to leave to go to battle
· Single source of light produces a show on the wall
· Paints around his shadow
· Visual relationship between shadow and him
· ‘Invented drawing’ according to Greek myth
· Single source of light produces a show on the wall
· Paints around his shadow
· Visual relationship between shadow and him
· ‘Invented drawing’ according to Greek myth
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Popular between 17th
– 19th century
· Device for viewing picturesque landscape
· Came in pocket form
· Scientific instrument to help make records
· Framing the view behind you
· An aid to draw the scene
· In square, oval and round shapes
· Device for viewing picturesque landscape
· Came in pocket form
· Scientific instrument to help make records
· Framing the view behind you
· An aid to draw the scene
· In square, oval and round shapes
1727, Johann Heinrich
Schulze, discovered that silver nitrate darkened on exposure to light, which
could then make a photographic image.
1834 William Henry Fox
Talbot, invented photography as we know it today, on a paper negative. Being
able to reproduce at a low cost.
1837 Louis Daguerre, he
wanted Daguerreotypes to become a business and commercial success, a solid
silver pate negative. Revolutionized the idea of a picture. Highest resolving
medium ever known.
‘The age of mechanical
reproduction.‘
Ferrotype or Tintype
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Patented in the 1850s
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Same process as wet plate
collodion, but on iron (not ‘tin’) with black enameling.
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Develops quickly, and dried
almost instantly
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Much less laborious, and
cheaper, than Daguerreotype’s.
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Socially acceptable to
photograph slavery
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Still rich, white males using
this technology
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Had to keep up with the current
demands in photography
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Had to process while still wet.
Roger Fenton 1855
· Contemporary war photography at
the time
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Crimean war
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Realistic looking at the time
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Had no artist changes
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Allegedly made the images more
dramatic
1878: Dry plates being manufactured
commercially.
1880: George Eastman, age 24, sets up
Eastman Dry Plate Company in Rochester, New York.
1889: Improved Kodak camera with roll of
film instead of paper
1900: Kodak Brownie box roll-film camera
introduced.
1906: Availability of panchromatic black
and white film and therefore high quality color separation color photography.
1907: First commercial color film, the
Autochrome plates, manufactured by Lumiere brothers in France. The start of
cinema.
1914 – Lecia is invented.
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Changed how photographs are
taken, and cameras being used.
· Changed the style of images.
· Camera became more portable, taken into people homes.
· Cameras became more widespread and film became cheaper.
· We have a compulsion to record things.
· Kodak pushed the idea that recording something was important.
· Documenting a valued moment
· Changed the style of images.
· Camera became more portable, taken into people homes.
· Cameras became more widespread and film became cheaper.
· We have a compulsion to record things.
· Kodak pushed the idea that recording something was important.
· Documenting a valued moment
New Topographies
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Photographs of Man-altered
Landscapes.
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Revolutionary at the time
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Their own version of landscapes
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Interested in the idea of man
made landscapes
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How they saw the change
Anonyme Skulpturen
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Historical document
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Same lighting used
