Digital Photography Flashcards
Camera obscura
China, Greece etc
Giambattista della Porta (Italy, 16C) - put a lens in the camera obscura
Photography started with amateur photographers like much of media studies
A darkened room or box that projects an inverted image of the outside world onto a surface inside.
Niépce
1826 - produces first permanent fixed photograph
8 hr exposure
Not trained artist
Daguerreotype
1889 Niepce partners with Louis Daguerre
Theater scene painter
Diorama
Exposure time reduced to 8 hours
Interested on immersive experiences
Printed on metal
First Photography technology used widely
a unique, one-of-a-kind photographic image on a silvered copper plate, created using a chemical process involving light, iodine, and mercury
Matthew Brady
Samuel Morse in Paris in 1839 - promoting the telegraph, sees the daguerreotype and learns and trains others how to use it
He trains Matthew Brady and uses to make photographies of famous people
Gallery of illustrious americans - where is photographies went
Did a portrait of Abraham Lincoln
Also document civil war
Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony
Questions of ownership
Case in 1884
Based on photograph of Oscar Wilde (first trip to the US not famous yet for his writings)
He arrives and goes to Napoleon Sarony to get his photograph taken
Burrow-Giles get and used the photograph as labels
Sarony sues says he is the creator and how they can’t use the image without permissions
Due to the idea that photograph not being seen as human agency
A supreme court cases
Decision: Sarony is the creator (artist), pushing the button makes you an artist. He is the artist due to the pose and the draping.
Cases after this one started to see that pushing the button makes you the artist.
Kodak #1
1888 Eastman retail camera Kodak 1 fro $25
Had a circular lenses that make a circular image
Send the whole machine back to the factory where they were reset and send it back to the customers
Kodak company becomes bankrupt in 2012
Brownie
1900
Kodak
standard
Used a lot for selfies
Polaroid
Edwin land
1947
People don’t need to send the machine back to the company
They can get the image instantly
Atget
Eugene, french street photographer
1857 to 1927
Felt that his Mission was to capture Paris images as it modernizes
The architecture, clothing
Sold to many artists
Bernice Abbott
Went to Paris and met Atget
Bought most of his archives
Started to publish Atget work
Becomes a great street photographer
Starts to chronological the life of New York
Cartier-Bresson
Henri
1907 - 2004
Street photographer, war photograph
As a smaller device
Doesn’t look through the lenses, by the viewfinder
The decisive moment - book he wrote about his photograph
The job of photograph is to be in the first place and know exactly when to take the picture (composition)
Weegee
1930s - 1940s
Master of everyday photography
Journalist in New York
Didn’t hide and want to capture the important moments in the city
Naked City - his book, a million stories in naked city
Took photo of a lot of crime scenes - murder is my business
Photo League
1930s
Bernice Abbott co-creates Photo League
Wants to document of political unrest and bring it to the people
Many are blacklisted and cannot work
Walker Evans
1893-1975
Photograph as folk art
Reconsidered snapshots and postcards as forms of homegrown American folk art
Travels around the US
Purikura
Print club
Another type of photo booth, print stickers
Japanese photo sticker booth
Kawaii culture
cute , culture Japan
Selfie, girls dressing up themselves as anime/manga characters
Taking photos and sharing them
Deep Fakes
To record people, images, voices and make them say whatever we want them to say
Reinforces our pre-baises
China “Huanlian” (changing faces) -app ZAO
The idea of changing faces around since 2018
The Heart Part 5
Kendrick Lamar song
Uses deep fake technology to change his face to famous celebrities
OJ Simpson, Kanye west, Jussie Smollett, will smith, Kobe Bryant, and nipsey hussle
