Chapter 9 Flashcards
“Fading Away”
Henry Peach Robinson
Example of Pictorialism
wanted to realize timeless moments in a significant setting.
“Ophelia”
J.M. Cameron
Medium: Albumen print
Example of Portraits.
“Trolley, New Orleans”
Robert Frank
Medium: Silver Gelatin Print
Photography”
Purpose of documenting and bearing witness. It was taken in black and white and creates more of a dramatic effect because if it were in color too much would be going on.
“Horse Galloping”
E. Muybridge
Medium: Collotype print
Example of Sequence photography”
“TV Buddha”
Nam June Paik
Medium: Closed-circuit video installation with bronze
sculpture, monitor, and video camera
Example of Video Art”
Uses the use of a camera to capture and question what modern day meditation is.
“Long March: Restart”
Feng Mengbo
Medium: new media
Fully fuctional video game that the viewer is meant to walk through and play using a wireless controller and combat enemies.
Louis J. M. Daguerre
created Daguerreotype: The first commercial photographic process, introduced in Paris in
1839 by Louis J.M. Daguerre.
Eadweard Muybridge
created a sequence photography taking multiple pictures of a horse galloping in order to win a bet too see if all four hooves are off the ground at once.
Photography (meaning of name)
Photography - from the Greek photos (“light”) and graphein (“to draw”)
Daguerreotype
First commercial photographic process introduced in Paris in 1839 by Louis J.M. Daguerre
Its a negative image that appears positive in the proper light.
Pictorialism
Photography with the intention and expression was purely scientific, documentary, and commercial.
Methods used were soft focus, lens coatings, heavy darkroom, exotic printing processes.
Example: “Fading Away” Henry Peach Robinson
Sequence Photography
Precursor to cinematography, created by Eadweard Muybridge in his Horse Galloping.
Video art
moving pictures and audio medium.
Video art
moving pictures and audio medium.
Example : “TV Buddha”
New Media/Electronic Media
Exploring digital art, computer graphic, computer animation, virtual, internet, interactive art, video games, and robotics. and can be combined with eachother for traditional media.
Example: “Long March: Restart”