2. Art and Photography:
Compare and contrast the early attempts to justify photography as an art form (e.g. Le Gray, Reijlander, Robinson, Emerson, Cameron and other pictorialists). What forces were against the perception of photography as a fine art and how did photographers work to overcome this?
Compare and Contrast: The Artists of Photography Photography has instilled its roots as a form of art in mid 19th century. Photographers and art were on a challenging race, resulted into building the photography as the new art phenomenon in that period. Due to both simple techniques and marvelous skills in that era, photographers from all over the world were competing on inspiring the world with this new art form. Each photo artist had a special
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Davison promoted a theory of impressionistic photography, where he used a pin hall camera instead of a lens, and that resulted in producing a wide angle photo and soft focused effect. Pictorialists are somehow similar in a way, but they contradict in different way. They believed photography has its unique character as an art form. Dramatic pictorialists like William Henry Fox Talbot (1800 – 1877), the British calotype inventor, created figures that are emerging from a series of brush strokes, which was strange and radical to the medium. It was called gum bichromate printing, using Arabic gum and pigment rather than silver for creating the density, and brush strokes were added when processing. In another part of the world, pictorialist esthetics was admired and practiced by a significant figure in the history of photography was the American artist named Albert Stieglitz (1864 - 1946), who was an amateur artist, and a photographer who started a gallery in New York city. Stieglits also wrote a journal called Camera Work featuring the works of other pictorialists in his era. All these movements made a great impact to engrave photography as a new form in the history of fine arts. Similarly, the method of using brush strokes effect was used by the American-born photographer Frank Eugene (1865 – 1936) but in a different style of photos. He was specialized in producing nude theatrical portraits, mostly female nudes. On the other hand, there were photographers doing some stage reenacted scenes such as Fred Holland Day (1864 - 1933) who's work was considered provocative and controversial and too disturbing to public to accept. In contrast with Eugene, Holland day used to include male nude sensual photographs to his
Vincent Van Gogh is one of the world’s greatest and most well-known artists, but when he was alive he considered himself to be a complete failure. It was not until after he died that Van Gogh’s paintings received the recognition they deserved. Today he is thought to be the second best Dutch artist, after Rembrandt. Born in 1853, he was one of the biggest artistic influences of the 19th century. Vincent Van Gogh created a new era of art, he learned to use art to escape his mental illness, and he still continues to inspire artists over 100 years later.
Johnson, Brooks. Photography Speaks: 150 Photographers on their Art.” New York: Aperture Foundation Inc., 2004. Print.
Alfred Stieglitz was an American photographer and modern art promoter. Alfred Stieglitz was very instrumental over his fifty-year career in making photography an accepted art form (The Art Story). Unlike Doretha Lange, Alfred Stieglitz tried making photography an art. Alfred Stieglitz once said that photography was not just about the subject of the picture, but the manipulation
The media object selected for analysis is the Daguerreotype. Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre (1787-1851), a Romantic painter and printmaker, had introduced the Daguerreotype on 7th January 1839 and would forever change the perspectives of the visual experience through photography (Daniel, 2004). Ever since the advent of the Daguerreotype, people were able to view a detailed imprinting of a certain visual frame on a treated sheet of copper (which today is called the film) (Daniel, 2004).
For many years the only way to capture an image required one to paint or draw the model or object. This was until 1814 when Joseph Nicephore Niepce a French inventor, took the first picture in history. Even though the picture was a permanent print the image known as “View from the window at Le Guas” took eight hours to expose!
Dorne, Albert. "Is Illustration Art?" Ed. Walt Reed and Roger Reed. The Illustrator in America, 1880-
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, located in the Art Institute of Chicago, is one of the most recognizable paintings of the 19th century, a painting made by Frenchman Georges Seurat. Finished in 1886, it has gained much of its recognition over the time of its completion; the pop culture of today has played a pivotal role into the popularity of it. An example of that is being apart in one of the most recognizable scene in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, where one of the main characters is solely staring at the painting until he can’t even recognize the artwork. This painting also gets much attention because it was an early example of the style of pointillism, at the time; pointillism was becoming a new way of expressing one self with the new technique. It also brought upon about the way we saw paintings, and what we gained from the artwork as whole. In all this painting has become an icon in the art scene, due to the technique it used, and how much of an impact it has had in today culture.
Some of Robert Demachy best art work were known for focusing on the transcription of the work of art, using soft focus lenses to blur and soften the image which makes his art of work a special unique quality as well as showing his expression via work of his art (Robert Leggat 1995). An example of his best pictorialists work was the Cigarrete girl and an “Etched Negative”. An art work produce in 1906 and 1902 “Gum Print”. As described by (Christopher James-studio) Demachy used soft focus lenses in order to make his images more haze as well as manipulating his negatives, reducing the details in his photograph.
However, it was not long before photography was slated badly by many. Artists regarded photographs as mere regurgitations and made clear that ‘…imagination, rather than imitation is required of art. ’[1] On the contrary it has been said that photography was a new means of pursuing the ends of painting.[2]
In Roger Scruton's essay, "Why Photography Is Not Art", an effort is made to question photography as a genuine art form. Roger spends much of his essay arguing that photography is merely a weak imitation of an object, rather than a carefully crafted depiction of a subject with its own aesthetic properties. Due to the rapid rise of photography all around the globe, his viewpoints are highly controversial. It is important for us to study both sides of the argument, because photography is so important in capturing world history. Photography is a rather new concept, yet its importance is paramount in seeing how others live. Photos allow us to see and capture a specific moment in time, just like a wide array of already accepted art forms. I find it truly interesting that Roger challenges photography as art. I am certainly not a photographer, but I never knew some people challenged photography's artistic merit. I will argue today that Roger Scruton is wrong in his belief that photography has merely a "casual and not intentional" relationship with its subject (Scruton, 89). In essence, photographs lack true depiction. I will also argue that the majority of photographs due indeed, have their own aesthetic properties. This is something Roger Scruton fails to recognize.
Emily Galvin Photo history Essay November 4, 2015 There is a closely knitted relationship between rise of American modernism and photography classified as fine art. These two movements were conceived around the same time, and began to be introduced and intertwined within each other, into the web of ‘what is art’. While there was the rapid quest to push American Modernism throughout New York city, Alfred Stieglitz’s had a vision of pushing photography as a medium of expression.
Beautiful Mind by Ron Howard is a story about John Nash whose life took a turn. John Nash went to college Princeton University when he first started seeing stuff, although he was unaware of it. Ever since he started going there he didn't have any friends and people made fun of him, because he was socially awkward. John Nash created a character in his mind to cope with it. This character that he created was his “room mate” named Charles . Throughout the years he used Charles as a way to cope with him being lonely . A couple years passed and he got invited to the Pentagon to crack a cod where he later met “Parcher” telling him to work for the government against the Soviet Union.At the time John Nash thought this real, not knowing this was all
Introduction Photography is the art or practice of taking and processing photographs. Photography can also be defined as the method of recording the image of an object through the action of light, or related radiation, on a light-sensitive material. In this paper, I will describe how important photography is and the many components to photography. I will also include the history of photography and how it came about, the different types of photography, some of the famous photographers, and the education and salary of a photographer. The purpose in this paper is to explain the purpose of child photography, which is to capture the most special and precious moments of a child’s life.
What do you consider art? Paintings, sculptures, drawings, or maybe something else. I know, when I think of art, I think of photography. Photography Is used for business, science, manufacturing, art, recreational purposes, mass communication, and more. Photography is using light to do amazing things, and some people think of photography as a story that just needs to be told. Ansel Adams probably believed this. He said, “You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” Photography has a long interesting history, like the fact that the word photography is made up of two greek words, photos meaning ‘light’ and graphein which is ‘to draw’ ! Photography also has some complicated techniques to get a hang of taking good photos. Have you heard of the rule of thirds? Or do you know how a camera works? Well, that will all be explained. Maybe, by the end you will take up photography too. This essay will explore the history and types of cameras and the basic rules for taking photographs.
Everywhere you look one thing is common, photographs. People not only use photography to document events and milestones, they use to enhance the beauty of their surroundings. From pictures of quiet country streams and cute animals to family photographs, almost every public space has some kind of photograph as decoration. Photography is much more than taking simple pictures, as a career a photographer must know technical information about lighting, posing, choosing subjects and framing shots. Equipment care is another facet of photography that requires technical knowledge beyond what the amateur needs. Modern photography has emerged as more than a hobby, it is a profitable and exciting career.