Notes

Brief history if the Photography

Postmodernism in Phototgraphy

(1839-1970s)

Daguerreotype made by louis Daguerre in 1838

“boulevard du temple” taken by Daguerre in 1838

In the beginning camera

-       Camera obscura

(google it, it was like drawing in the room with a hole)

-       Pinhole cameras

Hicephore Niece

(view form the window at le Gras taken in 1826 by Nicephore)

L’Atelier De l’artistte (1837), a daguerrotype made by Daguerre himself

(beginning of black and white photography (copper plate)

Calotypes 1841

William fox Talbot (1800-1877) and John Herschel

(he patented calotype, 1841)

(photography was not be regarded as art format at first)

Photography becomes popular

Daguerrotypes, Calotype and Tintypes

Tintypes: more clear, remain longer

(hard to make, hard to copy, hard to hold)

George Eastman in 1880s

Kodak camera went in a market in 1888 and after the invention of brownie in 1901, photography became so popular

(Kodak, ad words you press the button, we do the rest)

(brownie holiday camera)

Color photography(1861-present)

-       The first color photography using three color method suggested by James Clerk Maxwell and taken by Tomas Sutton 1861

-       The first color photograph in printed……….

Autochrome, first commercially successful color process

First Commercially viable color film, Kodachrome in 1930s

Introduction to photography in the early 20^th century

-       Eadweard Muybridge, thoroughbred bay mare “Annie G” galloping, Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 626 1887

-       Henri Cartier Bresson, Behind the Gare St.Lazare, 1932

He is considered as a pioneer of photo-journalism

-       Alfred Stieglitz, The Terminal , pohotogravure, 1892

(Tec improvement, make photo more like beautiful as drawing)

What transformed perception of photography

-       Photographers were radically affected by industrialization, political revolution and warfares, motions pictures, radios, airplanes, automobiles…

Everything stared to be industrialized

(shoot a lot of germen, to show germen real life.

Shoot in a similar style)

Postmodernism……in the 70s

(if modernism photography is more object, postmodernism is more humanism)

-one of the first postmodern movements in the visual art was pop art. Pop art used the sign and symbols of mainstream/ commercial culture, and in fact…..

(photography just a tool, use it to represent the same thinking as art do)

-Frank Majore

-Bollinger advertisement

Appropriation

Richard Prince

(recreated?)

Sherrie Levine

(some of his photo become a culture? Because too famous for American?)

Photo (walker Evans and Sherrie Levien, same)

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Postmodernist

( no right way, no specific style)

Photography is use to record daily life, also use as a tool for art (some photographer become no longer interested capturing realism)

The image we create is basic on the image we have seen.

A beautiful image take by the an photographer, some people copy it or take a similar one basic the image they saw, this processing do not creates an “art”. Those photos just images.

Mark Klett

(re-create, re-photography)

Make so similar with those old photo, to show how time change those places.

How times and space are merged together utilizing different medium

Klett’s work creates a delicate complexity and depth of meaning built upon layer after layer of recovered human and geological narratives. The results….

(see how image influence to other)

Cindy Sherman

“untitled file still” series 197-s

(google it)

-       Men watch women and women watch themselves being watched by men, ultimately women begin to present themselves in way they believe men want to see them. The end result is the loss of self.

 represent women?

She do not regarded herself as feminist.

“every photograph is the abstraction of the reality”

Movie about her.

Conceptual photography

-       Conceptual photographer is trying to bring some message to the viewers whether it’s political, social commentary, emotional zeal, the image itself is not a concept, but general expression of the idea of the photographer

-       It follows then, that a great deal of conceptual photography concerned with natural of representation

-       How photographs picture the world or how world can be pictured in a photograph. How the photograph represent the world, how much do we believe photographer as reality, how much memory do we believe as real that is represented in photograph.

Ken Josephson

(3D to 2D , he interesting flat the world

Image into image?)

-       Interesting aspect of how we perceive photograph

John Pfahl

(Altered Landscapes )

-       Famous for creating illusionistic space

-       Using visual illusion

-       Sculptor

Zeke Berman (American)

-       Sculptor

-       Also work with illusionistic space

-       Take photo to his artwork, and edit the photo

Georges Rousse (Paris)

-       Drawing in the building

-       Use colorful, gorgeous pigment

-       Visual illusion

-       Can be realized only when the camera is setting a specific angle

-       (2D to 3D)

-       Conversion

Movie about him

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David Hockney

Interesting in how to create photo as an object being documented

Not a photography, just an artist use camera as a tool.

A specious format, swimming pool is one of his favorite.

Showing the move moment in 2D

Judge about how human eyes read an image

Pearlblossom highway

A lot of different print, take in many different time.

Right part, driver view, what subject would driver pay attention

Left part passenger view, what they will pay attention on.

Vic Muniz (Brazilian)

Sculpture

The representation of reality

Work in various material. Paper sugar, some kinds of thing

“The sugar children series” 1996

Photography the children, use sugar and black paper, to create black and white portrait.

Sugar has many metaphor.

Tell people to judge what they see, the other image shoot by photographer

Judge how the people eye work, the material he used like jam, chocolate will make people think in the food way first and so on.

Yasumasa Morimura (Japaness)

Painter

Drawing himself into famous western artwork.

Judge about cultural boundries in art

Question if he put himself into the artwork, do they still have same value.

Challenge who is the audience for the artwork, which audience is the artist looking forward about their work.

Work on find out the different between looking and seeing

Carrie Mae Weems (Africa American photographer)

“colored people” series

Take the photo in black and white, then add the color filter to it.

Use test in the image

Judge about how color determine kinds of people

(sign language, gesture)

Judge the stereotype about the language or the word people use to describe another person.

“From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried”

(“I am trying to heighten a kind of critical awareness around the way in which these photographs were intended, and then the way in which these photographs were intended, and then the way in which they are ultimately used by me”)

Judge about how people get out of those, stereotype in history

Color also is a metaphor

Use art as a power, to challenge politically correct.

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