A Picture is worth a
Thousand Words
The Persuasive Power
of Photography
The Invention of
Photography
• The basic chemistry
– Johanne Schultze -light-sensitive materials
– Carl Scheele -”fixing” the image
• First Photographs
– Joseph Niepce-permanent image using an emulsion
– Louis Daugerre - direct-positive image on metal
– William Henry Fox Talbot -paper negative,
allowed multiple images
– Fredrick Archer -glass negative, multiple images
with sharper detail
Camera Obscuro
From Greek meaning “dark chamber”
Calotype Prints
William Henry Fox Talbot
Calotype paper negative
Paper print (positive) form calotype negative
From Laboratory to Art
Joseph Neipce
One of the earliest photographs using an emulsion.
From Laboratory to Art
LouisDaguerre
“Daguerreotype”
a direct-positive process using an emulsion on a metal plate
From Laboratory to Art
• Naturalists
– Nature recorded
without changing it
(Realism)
• Pictorialists
– Photographs should
look like paintings
(Emotionalism)
Naturalists
Phillip Henry Delamotte
Pictorialists
Oscar J. Rejlander
Bringing distant lands home
• Carte d’visite - (postcards)
• Photo Journalists
– War Photographers
• Matthew Brady
• Robert Capa
• Carl Mydans
Timothy Sullivan
Larry Burrows
W. Eugene Smith
– Life Magazine Photographers
• Margaret Bourke-White
• Alfred Eisenstaedt
Jacob Riis
Lewis Hine
Carte d’visite
Carte d’visite - (postcards)
• souvenirs of visits to far
away places
From Laboratory to Art
•Artists Photographers
•Alfred Stieglitz
•James Van Der Zee
•Gordon Parks
•Arnold Newman
•Paul Strand
•Imogen Cunningham
Edward Weston
Edward Steicen
Ansel Adams
Annie Liebowitz
Dianne Arbus
Memory Makers
• Timeline
– Earliest photographs appeared
around 1839
• Events throughout history
Photojournalism
Timothy O’Sullivan - 1864
Photojournalism
Matthew Brady - 1864
Photojournalism
Andrew J. Russell
The Golden Spike used to connect rail lines
from East and West at Promontory Point, Utah, 1869
Photojournalism
Lewis Hine
Immigrants at Ellis Island -1908
Photojournalism
Margaret Bourke-White
First issue of Life Magazine - 1936
Photojournalism
Sam Shere
Hindenburg Disaster
May 6, 1937
Photojournalism
Walker Evans
Federally-funded Work Program
Photojournalism
Margaret Bourke-White
The Liberation of Buchenwald - 1945
Photojournalism
Joe Rosenthal
Raising the Flag at Mt. Suribachi - Iwo Jima
February 23, 1945
Photojournalism
Dorothea Lange
Migrant Mother - March, 1936
Photojournalism
Alfred Eisentstaedt
V-J Day in Time Square
August 14, 1945
Photography as Art
Edward Weston
Pepper - 1930
Photography as Art
Ansel Adams
Moon and Halfdome - Yosemite Valley
Photography as Art
Georgia O’Keeffe - 1918
Alfred Steiglitz
Sun Rays - Paula - Berlin 1889
Photography as Art
Georgia O’Keeffe:
A Portrait - Hands and Grapes - 1921
Alfred Steiglitz
Grapes on White Dish - Dark Rim - 1920
Georgia O’Keeffe
Photography as Art
Georgia O’Keeffe:
A Portrait - Neck - 1921
Alfred Steiglitz
The Dark Iris No. II - 1926
Georgia O’Keeffe
Photography as Art
Gordon Parks
American Gothic
Photography as Art
James Van Der Zee
Photography as Art
Arnold Newman
Igor Stravinsky
Photography as Art
W. Eugene Smith
Into the Light
Innovations
• Tools & Techniques
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Kodak camera
Leica 35 mm camera
Leica and others 35 mm electronic camera
Ektachrome color slide film
Kodachrome color slide film
Kodacolor color print film
Kodak Brownie Camera
First mass produced camera available to
the general public.
Leica
The first 35mm electronic camera
• Small format film
• Electronic Shutter
• Quality Optical Lens
First Color Slide Film
Kodak
Ektachrome
Image Makers
• Famous faces
Image Makers
Matthew Zimmerman
Marilyn Monroe
1954
Image Makers
Arnold Newman
Pablo Picasso
Image Makers
Edward Steicen
Gloria Swanson
Image Makers
The Kennedy Family
Image Makers
Woopie Goldberg
Bruce Springsteen
The Blues Brothers
Annie Liebowitz
Memories You Can’t Forget
Photojournalism
Robert Jackson
The Murder of Lee Harvey Oswald - 1963
Photojournalism
W. Eugene Smith
A young woman deformed by Mercury Pollution
Japan - 1971
From Laboratory to Art
Montgomery Civil Rights Demonstration
From Laboratory to Art
M.L. King’s “I Have A Dream” speech
March on Washington - 1968
Photojournalism
Bill Eppridge
The Assassination of Robert Kennedy - 1968
Photojournalism
Huynh Cong “Nick” Ut
Children fleeing an American Napalm strike - 1972
Viewing Ourselves
William Anders - 1968
Apollo 8
Photojournalism
Age of Revolution
Alexandra Avakian
Fall of The Berlin Wall -1989
Alfred
Farewell to Lenin - Bucharest, 1990
Photojournalism
Charles H. Porter IV
Fireman and child in Oklahoma City - 1995
Photography Today
• Where we stand now
• How the past influenced the present
What’s Next ?
• New Technology and
Photographic Processes
• Ethical issues
• What’s in the Future
Innovations
Edward Muybridge
Zoophraxiscope - showing horse galloping - 1881
Technology
Strobe Flash Photography - 1939
Harold Edgerton
Manipulated Images
combining traditional images in the darkroom
Jerry Ulesman
Innovations
David Hockney
Pearblossom Highway - Photocollage- 1986
Innovations
Robert Silver
Photomosaic of Lincoln using Matthew Brady Images
Image Makers
Photo Illustration by Matt Mahurin
O.J. Simpson
L.A. Police Mug shot
Time Magazine Cover
Image Makers
Who knows what some people might do!
To be continued...