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History of Photography 1.3
Photography & War
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Art History
Undergraduate 2
09/14/2009

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Goya
Definition
1814, push tradition of painting.

Romantic. Showed war's brutal side.

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[image]
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Goya, "3rd of May"

Effect: war imagery changes 

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Crimean War
Definition

1854-1856

New things: rifle, telegraph (journalism), photography 

British & French vs. Russia. Want Russia to stay out of Eastern Europe. 

Mismanagement & confusion

 

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Crimean War: 

William Russel of English Times

Roger Fenton

Definition

Russel: told tragic stories of mismanagement & death

Roger Fenton: doesn't photograph the negative. Possibly commissioned? Shows English culture alive and well, portraits, no battle scenes. 

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[image]
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Roger Fenton, "In the Valley of the Shadow of Death" 

Placed the cannonballs in the foreground

From the Tennyson poem 

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Civil War: 

Matthew Brady 

Definition

Wet plate process, still pretty impossible to capture battle

Mostly North 

Famous photographer before the war- Abraham Lincoln

 

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[image]
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Matthew Brady

Lincoln - sturdy 

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[image][image][image][image]
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Alexander Gardener 

(previously under Brady) 

Set up the shot 

 

Gardener gets to Gettysburg first. 

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Burnside Bridge
Definition

Differences in prints & photographs 

"Gardener's Photographic Sketchbook of the War" 

Gruesome photos, accompanied by text 

Post-war: Lincoln's conspirators 

Exclusive access to hangings 

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France in the 1870s, Communes
Definition

1850s & 1860s, French social repression of working class

French and German war, Germans invade in 1870

Uprisings in Paris, people get angrier at government, make communes - "the communars" 

Communist, Church/State, Education, Unemployment 

 

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[image]
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Communards in coffins. 

"Bloody Week" 

 

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[image]
Definition

Communards standing over statue 

Used as celebratory image, also as evidence

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Appart 
Definition

Composites showing Communards as awful citizens

 

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