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Intro to Art - Marchant
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
12/11/2008

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Daguerreotype
Definition
copper plate with silver iodide to hold an image (1837)
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Heliograph
Definition
Sun or light on photo-sensitive paper.
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julia Margret Cameron
Definition
on of the first woman photographers.
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Timothy O'Sullivan
Definition
Federal Gov't expedition to west in a wagon darkroom.
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Doumentary
Definition
Straight Photography - visual record
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First War Photographed
Definition
Civil War.
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1900
Definition
photos used in journalism. Helped with the support of the war.
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WPA/FSA
Definition
Documents of the "Great Depression" most famous photo - "Migrant Mother"(depicted a woman and her daughter)
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Photo as Art
Definition
Classified under painting.
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Henry Peach Robinson
Definition
1858 - "Fading Away" Very sentimental.
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Alfred Steiglitz
Definition
Tried to take pictures perfect the first time so no editing was needed. "Straight Photography."
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Ansel Adam
Definition
Took pictures of nature. Shot most in Yosemite. Tried to get 10 shades between white and black in his photos.
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Color
Definition
Shifts in pictures over time so it isn't always correct and true to the scene.
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Film
Definition
Series of photographs. Short films were of man running, and horse galloping. Predecessor of full length films.
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Persistence of Vision
Definition
Makes a sequence of still frames seem to move. (brain fills in the gaps between the motions of the photos)
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1888
Definition
Eastman Brought out celluloid film.
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"Shot"
Definition
unbroken sequence of movie frames.
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"Standard" Shot
Definition
All of a person in frame
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"Medium" Shot
Definition
Waist up of a person in frame.
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"Close" up
Definition
Bust to top of head of a person in a frame
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"Extreme Close up" Shot
Definition
Part of a persons face in frame.
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"Pan" Shot
Definition
Scanning from side to side with the camera.
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Cross Cutting
Definition
2 or more scenes alternate in advancing the plot.
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Iris Shot
Definition
Blackend corners of film to make viewer look towards the middle of the screen.
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Flashback
Definition
Usually in Black and White.
Term
Studios Began
Definition
1910s - movies being produced and distributed.
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Late 1920s
Definition
audio in film
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1930s
Definition
Color in Film
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Dali and Bunuell
Definition
"An Andalusian Dog -- Surrealism
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Jump Cuts
Definition
Abrupt Change in film/video
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Anime
Definition
Abstraction, limited number of intermediate(motioned) frames. - people standing still and only mouth having to be redrawn.
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Video
Definition
On TV - Mass communication - Video as an Art
Term
1st US TV Broadcast year.
Definition
1939
Term
Nam June Paik
Definition
Making images and closed circuit TVs into art in museum.
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Peter Campus
Definition
Video art - Three Tansitions altered images on a TV monitor.
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Tony Oursler
Definition
Video Projections on fiberglas forms with projection equipment in full view.
Term
Signs, Symbols, Logos, and Trademarks
Definition
very recognizable symbols - handicap logo or RR crossing sign.
Term
Typography
Definition
Font and layout of words, symbols, signs, and logos
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