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[jacklyngradphotography]

History Class

I am taking this class with Brenton (https://www.brentonhamilton.com) who is also the chair of the program I am taking. I could talk your ear off about how photography started but here is what I got...

-Before photographers there were storytellers, painters & viewers -During the Renaissance period, there was a MAJOR crisis and then breakthrough of accuracy in paintings. They were FLAT and awkward, and no one could figure out how to fix that.  -The breakthrough- Masaccio 1420 Crucifixion. There is a story told that when this paining was revealed, people fainted at the reality! The depth of the church, and reality of these scene in front of them. 

-This gradual evolution of drawing and perspective got people interested in reality and realism. SO COOL -This interests led to many funny drawing tools like The Drawing tool my Aberti. People were obsessed with accuracy, and mathematics and science equations to ensure their paintings and drawings were perfect

Fast forward now, there was something called the Camera Obscura, BELOW. This was used for accurate drawings, and started off the size of an entire building. It got smaller and smaller, down to a traveling, table top size. They started using mirrors as well. BUT the church did not like it, they thought it was “black magic”. 

Three people, simultaneously were in an “arms race” to create photography but did not even know it. All were using Silver Nitrate, just in different ways.

Talbot-who was on his honeymoon with his Camera Obscura and could not draw at all! He wished he could permanently burn the image he saw onto his paper! (genius!!!!)

Nicephone Niepce (N.N) took the first photo ever, He snapped the shot with a camera obscura by focusing it onto a pewter plate, with the whole process taking him about eight hours.This was with Asfalt and lavender oil and silver nitrate (I think lol).

He had a friendship with Louis Negure, who was also in the mix wanting to figure this out. They were connected through their lens maker, who connected then. 

H. Bayard was also in the mix here, and actually had an incredible idea of how to make pictures!! BUT the nation academy of science REJECTED HIM, payed him a bunch of money to “disappear” and supported Bayard’s process, which was soon distributed around the world. See link below for better and more details on this drama of back stabbing, politics and scientific advancement! 

https://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2011/05/1839-and-the-frenzy-that-followed/

Anyways. That is my brief, and mostly accurate history lesson. Please disregard spelling of peoples names and faculty of the contest above ;-)

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Thomas Edison patents the Kinetograph

Thomas Edison patents the Kinetograph

Thomas Edison receives a patent for his movie camera, the Kinetograph. Edison had developed the camera and its viewer in the early 1890s and staged several demonstrations.

The camera was based on photographic principles discovered by still-photograph pioneers Joseph Nicephone Niepce and Louis Daguerre of France. In 1877, inventor Edward Muybridge developed a primitive form of motion…

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History of Photography Pages (334 - 341) questions

1. The first permanent picture was made by Joseph Nicephone Niepce.

2. The middle of the 19th century was a “good time” because People during this Era wanted pictures of family portraits and also, when they traveled they wanted to take pictures in faraway places.

3. Some of the problems the Daguerre had was that the exposure took several minutes long, and the results were superior.

4. When the photograph had been developed on paper, the print was made through the paper of a negative, making the Daguerre lack sharp detail in the calotype.

5. The disadvantages of the collodion wet-plate process was when it came to coating a plate, it required skill, nimble fingers, flexible wrists, and practiced timing.

6. The one invention during the 1800s that revolutionized photography was the Stereographic photographs. The stereoscope gives an impression of a three dimensional image. Looking at stereo became a popular home entertainment.

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25/05/2017 - Reasearch

Today I researched into Archiving, Found objects, Historical Photography, Mudlarking and Reporposing. 

Since I have started looking into the collection of abandoned objects I wanted to look into ways I could archive what I had found. I looked into the artists Mark Dion, who created an exhibition of mudlarking at the Tate which began when the Tate opened. I really liked his work as he was also interested in mudlarking. I also really liked the way he organised his work in cabinets that the viewer could go through and interact with. Golden used a more simple way of archiving my just laying his objects out and photographed them, which i really liked as it was easy to navigate yourself through the photograph. He also created a more interesting photograph of sewing objects which he turned into the shape of a sewing machine which I thought was really clever.

For found objects, I looked into the artists John Petrenko, Irving Penn. Petrenko photographed this child's chair, which reminded me of the chairs I sat on in primary school, it made me think about how my child has been left behind and abandoned. Penn photographed old cigarette butts, it made me think about how we pass cigarette butts every day, however never notice then however there traces are still left behind.

The Historical photographers I looked at were Nicephone Niepce, Henri Carter- Bresson and Ansel Adams. Niepce created the world’s oldest surviving photograph from 1826, I really like how the quality is very low and the photograph is nearly unrecognisable of what it is and is left a lot to the viewer to interpret. Carter-Bresson Photographed a stairway with a cyclist passing by, I really like how the photo is really well focused, however, the cyclist is moving so it’s slightly unfocused and blurry. Adams created this landscape photograph of a mountain and river, although this isn’t related much to my work I really liked how it was in black and white and showed natural nature.

I also looked at the artist Giuseppe Colarusso. I looked at his picture ‘Juice on Tap’ as I liked how he turned an orange into a tap as it’s really abstract. Although it’s not really related to my work I still wanted to look into an artist who changed the purpose of an object to something else.

I lastly looked into Mudlarking as its something I really love to do in my spare time. Mudlarking is where you go down to the Thames shore and look for hidden historical objects. You can find things such as old pipes and broken china and also things like animal bones, however, can also find more modern objects such as iPhones. I wanted to look into this as its a really interesting way of finding abandoned objects as you don't know what time period you could break into.