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ARHI 331 f22
PHOTOGRAPHY
Documentation & ART
CAMERA OBSCURA
CAMERA LUCIDA
TERMINOLOGY: PHOTOGRAPHY
GREEK, 'PAINTINGING OR WRITING WITH LIGHT'
HELIOGRAPHY = SUNPAINTING / SUNWRITING
LAMARTINE: PHOTOGRAPHY IS SEEN AS
"MORE THAN AN ART, IT IS A SOLAR PHENOMENON,
WHERE THE ARTIST COLLABORATES WITH THE SUN"
DAGUERROTYPE
TALBOTYPE
CALOTYPE [TALBOT'S SYSTEM]
JOHANN HEINRICH SCHULTZE
CHEMIST JOSEPH NICEPHORE NIÉPCE [1765-1833]
NIÉPCE: VIEW FROM THE WINDOW AT 'LE GRAS', 1826
CHEMIST JOHN HERSCHEL
LOUIS-JACQUES-MANDÉ DAGUERRE [1787-1851]
STILL LIFE, 1837
PORTRAIT OF CHARLES L. SMITH [1943]
HENRY FOX TALBOT [1800-1877]
CALOTYP
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LATTICED WINDOW IN LACOCK ABBEY, AUGUST 1835]
THE DOOR, 1844-46
THE LADDER, 1844
SAILING CRAFTS [1844]
THEODORE MAURISSET; DAGEURREOTYPE MANIA, 1840
PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY
NADAR [1820-1910], [GARPARD-FELIX TOURNACHON]
SARAH BERNHARDT [1859]
JULIA MARGARET CAMERON [1815-1879]
PORTRAIT OF SIR JOHN HERSCHEL [1867]
Call, I Follow; I Follow; Let me Die [1867]
DEATH PORTRAITS
Southworth and Hawes:
POSTMORTEM UNIDENTIFIED CHILD, 1850.
= PHOTOGRAPHY AS MEMORY
PHOTOGRAPHY AS DOCUMENTATION:
THE URBAN CONDITION
DAGUERRE
BOULEVARD DU TEMPLE, PARIS [c. 1838]
CHARLES MARVILLE
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THE INTERSECTION OF 'PUITS CERTAINS' IN PARIS [5TH ARRONDISSEMENT],
1865-69]
DOCUMENTING PLACES
AUGUSTE-ROSALIE BISSON [1826-1900]
PASSAGE DES ECHELLES [ASCENT OF MONT BLANC], 1862
PHOTOGRAPHY OF THE AMERICAN WEST
CARLETON WATKINS [1829-1916]
YOSEMITE VALLEY FROM INSPIRATION POINT [1865-66]
DOCUMENTING HISTORY & CULTURES
MAXIME DU CAMP
COLOSSAL STATUE OF RAMESSES II AT ABU-SIMBEL [1850]
DOCUMENTING EVENTS: WAR PHOTOGRAPHY
THE CRIMEAN WAR [1854-56]
FIRST WAR DOCUMENTED IN PHOTOGRAPHS.
ROGER FENTON [1819-1869]
THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH, CRIMEAN WAR [1855-56].
ITS TITLE TAKEN FROM THE 23RD PSALM:
"THOUGH I WALK IN THE VALLEY OF SHADOW OF DEATH,
I FEAR NO EVIL FOR THOU ART WITH ME".
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THE FIRST EXTENSIVELY DOCUMENTED WAR
= AMERICAN CIVIL WAR [1861-65]
MATTHEW BRADY
AMBULANCE WAGONS AND DRIVERS AT HAREWOOD HOSPITAL [1863]
ALEXANDER GARDNER
HOME OF A REBEL SHARPSHOOTER, 1863
PHOTO-JOURNALISM
ANDRE-ADOLPHE-EUGENE DISDERI
CADAVERS OF THE INSURGENTS [1871]
DOCUMENTING SOCIAL CONDITIONS
JACOB RIIS [1849-1914]
ITALIAN MOTHER AND HER BABY IN JERSEY STREET [1888]
RIIS'S 1890 PUBLICATION HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES: STUDIES AMONG
THE TENEMENTS OF NEW YORK
STREET CHILDREN IN THE AREA OF MULBERRY STREET [1889]
PHOTOGRAPHY AND SCIENCE
EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE [1830-1904]
for LELAND STANFORD
GALLOPING HORSE [1887]
Woman getting gup and laying down
Woman climbing over stool
CREATIVE USE OF PHOTOGRAPHY:
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ART-MAKING USING THE CAMERA AND DARKROOM
GUSTAVE LE GRAY
VIEW OF THE SEA: THE BRIG [1856]
SWEDE OSCAR GUSTAV REJLANDER [1817-1875]
REJLANDER BELIEVED PHOTOGRAPHY SHOULD PRESERVE
THE VALUES OF ACADEMIC PAINTING
BY DEPICTING MORALLY INSTRUCTIVE NARRATIVES.
[FOLLOWING THE PROGRAM OF NEO-CLASSICISM].
TWO WAYS OF LIFE [1857]
REJLANDER BASED HIS COMPOSITION ON
RAPHAEL'S SCHOOL OF ATHENS [1510];
AND THE THEME OF COUTURE'S ROMAN DECADENCE [1847].
THIS IS A MONUMENTAL SIZE PRINT 78 x 40.6 cm
MISTER AND MISS CONSTABLE [1866]
INFLUENCE OF PAINTING ON PHOTOGRAPHY
PETER HENRY EMERSON [1856-1936]
EMERSON CALLED HIS STYLE NATURALISM
GATHERING WATER LILIES [1886]
TWO MEN [1886]
EMERSON PUBLISHED HIS PHOTOGRAPHS IN TWO ALBUMS
LIFE AND LANDSCAPE ON THE NORFOLK BRAODS [1886]
PICTURES OF EAST ANGLIAN LIFE [1888]
F. HOLLAND DAY
UNTITLED
[CRUCIFIX AND ROMAN SOLDIERS]
1896
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PICTORIALISM
AN INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT SEEKING TO PROMOTE PHOTOGRAPHY
AS FINE ART BEGAN IN 1889.
ARTIST UNKNOWN
THE ART OF THE FUTURE
1858
LITHOGRAPH
1857
ELIZABETH EASTLAKE, WIFE OF THE PRESIDENT OF ROYAL SOCIETY OF
PHOTOGRAPHY ON STATUS, VALUE AND POWER OF PHOTOGRAPHY
"WE FIND IT IN THE MOST LUXURIOUS SALONS AND
IN THE POOREST SINGLE ROOM APARTMENTS;
IN THE SOLITUDE OF A HUT IN THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS
AND IN THE GLITTER OF LONDON GIN-PALACES;
IN THE BAG OF A DETECTIVE,
IN THE CELL OF A CONVICTED PRISONER,
IN THE FOLDERS OF PAINTERS AND ARCHITECTS,
IN THE PAPERS OF FACTORY OWNERS
AND IN THE POCKETS OF DEAD SOLDIERS."
= SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE
1889
PETER HENRY EMERSON
"THE POWER OF THIS GODDESS CARRIED BY LIGHT IS UNBELIEVABLE.
PHOTOGRAPHY IS A PARTICULARLY VALUABLE WEAPON, WHICH
WAS GIVEN TO HUMANITY FOR ITS INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT."
= POLITICAL, SOCIAL AND CRITICAL USE AND VALUE
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IS PHOTOGRAPHY ART?
FACT
DOCUMENTATION
OBJECTIVITY
PURE NATURE
REALITY
FINE ART
MANIPULATION
ARTIFICIALITY
CREATIVITY
COMPOSITION
PHOTOGRAPHY & GENDER: FEMINISM
PHOTOGRAPHY AS CONSTRUCT
FRANCES BENJAMIN JOHNSTON
SELF PORTRAIT [AS NEW WOMAN] [1896]
"TAKE A KODAK WITH YOU"
ARTIST UNKNOWN
UNTITLED
PAINTED POSTER, NOT A PHOTOGRAPH!!!
ADVERTISEMENT FOR KODAK CAMERAS
1910
KODAK CREATED THE 'KODAK GIRL' SERIES [FROM 1901 ONWARDS]
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