Notes From November 3rd

Photography

• The art or process of producing images of objects on photosensitive paper such as rayograms
• Could be seen as visual noise
• Visual power- photography which can change and shape opinion
• Photography can sell, could be branding 
• Nick Knight - takes beautiful pictures of disabled people, he also takes photographs and slightly digitalises them on the computer
• Andy Rouse has an activist's role. Really enjoys taking images of wild life
• Crime Scene photography is like documenting what has happened and some what used as evidence
• Brittany Lovelace- photographs food making it look seductive like you would see in a recipe book. Almost like selling the life style?
• Mirrored surfaces and glass images where produced in the 50's
• 1950-1960 enormous changes in technology made it easier to keep the photograph PERMANENT!
• Photograph can document something or evidence
• Nicephore Niepce started photography engravings made by light and emulsion, he could make the image but not fix it for any long period of time
• 1826 was the year of the first FIXED image, chemistry style chemicals being used to try and fix it- documentary
• 1826 was the first photographic image produced.
• Photography was mainly  focused in the UK and France
• Daguerre 1838/9, was the first photograph including a person stood in it. The exposure was held for about 3-4minets. 
• William Henry Fox Talbot used negative space such as a photogram
• Artist went necessarily connected to photography it was firstly the scientists
• Gustave Le Gray 1820-22 was the first to manipulate two images as the sky was a separate image to the water/sea. They where both done by different exposures. He wanted to produce an image that was pleasing to the eye
• Roger Fenton 1855- He was sent to document to the public how the troops were treated. However due to large equipment the only imagery he could capture were dull as he was unable to get himself to the front line
• Valley of The Shadow of Death photograph became famous many year after it was taken with influence of a song and then the image
• Photography can record entertainment 
• William Carrick 1859 Normally documented working class stood in a studio, which perhaps he had to compromise between getting the 'normal everyday worker' in the environment in which the task normally takes place perhaps that was too difficult
• 1852 Switzerland, trying to keep people all in the same place so if they ran off a photograph of them would make it clear who they where, this is the first type of a mug shot to identify who you where. Fixed reality 
• Commanders in their coffins, Unknown artist: This could show great sense of victory if they where the opposition, perhaps we would feel sad if it was our troops or a sense of pride as they lives enabled our own
• A head shot tell us something about someone, facial expressions and motions
• John Lamprey- Trying to create and image for how a race 'should' look. Very much like a mug shot: front on and side on, also with a grid like background, (Scientist)
• Kusakabe Kimbei 1880, oriental women, looking very suggestive and exotic. 
• Pictorial- photography could only be accepted if it was slightly fuzzy in the art world  whereas photography was very precise precision
• Many photographs where changed from paintings staged into photographs
• Annie Brigman 1910 serialism female photographer power of nature, taking photographs of women in natural situations, as if they are connecting to the earth, also considered to be maternal
• What's understood as indecent imagery of children?
• Nan Goldin- took photography of her friends and family. Her friends and photographs included Prostitution, drug addicts ect. The photograph including two of her friends children playing with a view of a child's privates, would this image been ok in a photo album at home?? This image caused huge controvacy and raised many questions
• Larry Rivers photographed and filmed his children growing up, now his films are in exhibitions he is undermining his daughter and she feels it violation
• Lartigue, weren't conventional, they where amusing images, the family had wealth as you could tell. Photographs taken by a small child, there not like standard photographs as they aren't like a portrait or a landscape and people are off the edges of the photo which didn't normally happen
• Edward Weston- Light and shadow, classic values on a 2d image 
• Capturing something in a moment or capturing reality permanent record of reality.
• Document a social life.
• Jacob Riis 1888 theory 'Where you live is reflected in your social life'. Documentary of social poverty backstreet alleys- unrealistic as people where given very staged instructions demonstrating how people lived however it wasn't really doing this. 
• Gender, children and women are always portrayed different to males. 
• Dorothy Lange 1936 Farm Security Administration 1930's era of the great depression. These where done to have empathy and understanding of other people. The photographers had very specific roles. Carefully selecting the correct photographs to really touch peoples hearts
• The Iraq war images of cruelty of prisoners, caused World wide disgrace! A shift of peoples opinions, Globally shocked.
• Edward Muybridge motion through photography, he became almost a celebrity in the science world, he captured questions such as do horses run with all four of the ground and he was able to find information out. Being able to move film, capturing motion in a flat image
• Weegee- first celebrity photographer, always on scene and always the first person to the scene of a crime ect. He was able to expose what was going on via the press. He would also capturing things as soon as the story was unfolding. Early paparazzi
• El Lissitsley using photography and collage
• Collage 1919 seems to be now a nice simple easy task then it was a great sense of artwork not attempted by the average person. Radical and acceptable in the art world
• 1924 film was to have 24 frames per second.
• Photo books produced with no type in 1972
• 1960's never seen a baby scan, they only knew that it was a baby only seen on the birth date and not really seen as a person until birth date. However scan came in 1960 and this was a revolution and the baby was now seen to be real as you could see the baby and seen to be its own individual.
• Kevin Calder, the image of the little African child photographed by a vulture, and the way she is shaped it really is like a comparison.