Saturday 12 December 2009

Session 4 notes on lecture (Photography)

Tom Stoddart- impact of an image can be incredible emotive and get a message across.

Wildlife photography
CSI photography
Fashion photography
Journalist/ Documentary photography
Press photography
Portrait photography
Sports photography- no overlap
Wedding photography
War Photography

Photography= drawing with light silhouette machine 1830s
1825- photography of illustration
Nicephore Niepce 1826- first photography

Daguerre recognized for his invention of the daguerreotype process of photography. 1838- first image of a person- having shoes shined so was still for all shutter speed.

So many processes- who invented photography? Few people
William Fox Talbot= negative

1850-60- image of the moon. Photography was a technique not an art.

Roni Horn- you are the weather
Oscar Rejlander- the two ways of life.
Reconstruction- photomontage.

Alice Bowton- photos of young children and was protected because she was a woman.
Can you do stuff like that because its art? ethical boundary’s. (naked children). Nan Goldin (born 1953) - American fine-art and documentary photographer.

No comments:

Post a Comment