Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Photography Film Video

1828—invention of the camera

Heliograph— sun writing 

• Light can transmit an image—reflection 

The word camera means room 

Photomechanical Image Recording 

Heliography

Joseph Niépce 

Daguerreotype

Louis Daguerre 

Cooper Union Lincoln Portrait 

Mathew Brady, 1860

Landscape

Ansel Adams “Thunderstorm Lake Tahoe”

Portraiture 

Helen Keller

Genre 

Dorothea Lange “Migrant Mother” 1936

Photo Journalism 

is the filming of picture taking of a significant event

Editorial Photogrpahy

Photography that sells a product. Can be deceptive

Abstraction

Edward Weston “Artichoke, Halved” 1930

Purposes of Photography 

• Fine Art
• Photo Journalism
• Editorial Photography

Cinematography

Kinemat=Movement

Graphy=Picture

Celluloid Negatives:

Invented by William Talbot, 1839

Patent sold to:

George Eastman

Studies of Motion

Edward Muybridge

“Animal Locomotion”

1887

Principle

Persistence of Vision

Retention visual image in the mind

24 frames/second

Zoopraxiscope

Three Necessary Elements

Flexible Connected Images

William Talbot-Celluloid

Artificial Light Source

Thomas Edison-Light Bulb

Projector

Lumiere Brothers

“It doesn’t matter what you do, it matters how you do it.”

—Griffin