• Invent PHOTOGRAPHY

• Work together to better the Photograph

• Invents PHOTOGRAPHY

• Generates first reprintable image, NEGATIVE

• Discovers CALOTYPE

• LIGHT SENSITIVE MATERIAL

• LIGHTSOURCE

• SODIUM to stop process

• Used centuries prior to photography as a DRAWING TOOL

• Church cathedrals mapped “the Heavens” through hole in top of dome

• Image created without a negative

• Not reproducable

• Lincoln credits for making him President

• POLITICAL PROPAGANDA

• Provided ILLUSION OF DEPTH

• Uses two images shot from a single camera with two lenses

• BINOCULAR VISION

• Similar to BAYARD, arranged dead bodies

• GRAVE OF REBEL SHARPSHOOTER

• SENSATIONALISM, filters and modifies

• Images of Lincoln’s assassins being hung

• The phenomenon where over saturation of images results in desensitized viewers being unable to respond to horrific images singularly

• Brought on by the advent of photography

• Reduces impact of each image

• Invented by Talbot

• Make up first DATABASES

• Term used to describe the first method of knowing someone better through images that they made of themselves and their surroundings

• 1860’s- 1880’s

• CULTURAL EXCHANGE OF PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGERY

• Allowed photographic images to be printed with text at the same speed

• Cheaper, refines LITHOGRAPHIC PROCESS

• First slide projector, lantern projects image on wall • Slides are the “SOCIAL EQUALIZER” bringing art into homes

 Art reproduction

• MECHANICAL

• ART

• TRUTH

o Cultural betterment- educate and enoble

• PRINTING PROCESS came about in 1890’s

• Made it cheaper and easier for photographic information to be disseminated

• Allowed photos to be reproduced without the use of engraving

• Idea the photography brought about a new culture based on material possessions through its ability to disseminate images and ideas

• Photographs used to define social identity

• Opened camera to uneducated cultures

• Gave the photographer more freedom in the range and type of images recorded

• Use of AMERICAN ROLL FILM

• Art should imitate the functions of the eye

• Utilized SELECTIVE FOCUS

• Naturalist

• Camera should function as viewer’s eye

• Emerson

• Focused on individual vision, SCIENCE- BASED

• Focus on main subject, allow periphery to become indistinct

• Shared reality

• Felt the SNAPSHOT was impairing the aesthetic sensibility of the public

• Did NOT support women’s right to vote or the promotion of industry, mass-produced goods

• Favored textured papers and hand colored prints- SHOWED ARTSIST’S HAND

• SHADOW & FOG • PLATINUM PRINTING – yields soft, middle- gray tones

• Images conveying emotion

• Galloping horse bet

• Anatomy drawing references

STOP MOTION 

• SOCIAL REALIST

• STRAIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY

• Curates FAMILY OF MAN

• CULTURAL EDITOR

• Became prominent in early 1900’s

• General public sees images as dispensible

• EL LISSETSZKY

• Call to action

• Used technology and photography to create art, mold society

• PHOTOMONTAGE

• Extensive study of the possibilities and limitations of a single medium

• RODCHENKO & MUHOLY- NAGY

• “DECISIVE MOMENT

       o Singular illusive time

  o Spontaneous, instantaneous- Exists only now

• German school that focused on the integration of Art and Industry

• Inspires Arts and Crafts movement

• Effectively communicate color theory

• DESIGN & CLARITY

• Collective defined by the camera’s limitations and possibilities

• Sharp focus

• Detail in all areas of image

• No visible artist’s hand

• “TO ASSEMBLE”

• Supports ideals of “Production Artists”

• More refined than collage- wanted to be a collective of workers

• Associated with DADAISM

• Appealed to lower class- Illiterates

• Made society feel they had the right to see “behind the scenes”

• Currated by Edward Steichen

• Attempted to unite the world through singular vision

• CULTURAL EDITOR

• Becomes most popular photo book of all time

• Images selected primarily from NEWS PHOTOGRAPGHS

• Atomic bomb image was only one in color, on TRANSPARENCY

• Understanding that all cultures could not be held to the same standards of one nation

• Human values are not universally the same

• Term coined out of FAMILY OF MAN exhibit

• Problem of arranging images against the artist’s intent, but for cohesion of the show’s message

• Cropping of titles, images

• Internal world/ Dream-like state

• Aggression towards women:

Caging, dismemebered, turned into dolls