History of photography part 3 photography as art CS 178 Spring 2011 Marc S Levoy Computer Science Department Stanford University History of photography part 3 photography as art CS 178 Spring 2010 Marc Scheimpflug Levoy Computer Science Department Stanford University History of photography part 3 photography as art CS 178 Spring 2010 Marc Stewart Levoy Computer Science Department Stanford University Outline photography as an aid to artists genres allegory still life 4 Naturalism Pictorialism profile Alfred Stieglitz Marc Levoy Photography as an artistic medium Rosenblum 5 William Talbot The Open Door 1843 Marc Levoy Photography as an aid to artists Rosenblum Eug ne Delacroix Dante and Virgil in Hell 1822 Delacroix collaborated with Eug ne Durieu Figure Study 1853 6 Durieu on these figure studies Marc Levoy Photography as an aid to artists Rosenblum Thomas Eakins The Swimming Hole 1883 7 Thomas Eakins s students 1883 Marc Levoy Photography as an aid to artists Kitty Owen granddaughter of William Jennings Bryan 8 Ludwig Maxfield Parrish illustration for Life 1923 Marc Levoy Planning a photograph Newhall photograph pre production sketch 9 Henry Peach Robinson Carrolling 1887 Marc Levoy Photography struggles for respect Photography asking for just a little place in the exhibition of fine arts 10 Gaspard Tournachon Nadar from Le Journal Amusant 1857 Marc Levoy Francois Joseph Heim The Exhibition of 1824 Photography struggles for respect Photography asking for just a little place in the exhibition of fine arts 12 Gaspard Tournachon Nadar from Le Journal Amusant 1857 Marc Levoy Genres 13 allegory still life Marc Levoy Thomas Cole The Vogage of Life 1842 I Childhood Thomas Cole The Vogage of Life 1842 II Youth Thomas Cole The Vogage of Life 1842 III Manhood Thomas Cole The Vogage of Life 1842 IV Old Age Allegorical collage 18 huge print 31 wide composite of 30 negatives widely denounced as mechanical made the artist rich and famous Oscar Rejlander Two Ways of Life 1857 Marc Levoy One frame movie 19 perfectly healthy 14 year old girl photograph as theatrical narrative 5 differently exposed negatives hence early example of HDR Henry Peach Robinson Fading Away 1858 Marc Levoy The Dutch still life balanced composition variety of textures specular highlights white if glass colored if metal interreflections reflected windows Willem Claesz Heda Still Life with Oysters Rum Glass and Silver Cup 1634 20 Gardner Marc Levoy intended to symbolize the transience of life the Vanitas 21 futility of pleasure and the certainty of death common symbols are a skull clock or candle pipes for blowing bubbles leaning glass rotting fruit Willem Claesz Heda Still Life Vanitas 1628 Marc Levoy anamorphic image of skull to view without distortion stand near lower left corner of painting salvation is represented by crucifix in upperleft corner Hans Holbein The Ambassadors 1533 Memento mori Caravaggio St Jerome 1606 23 Be mindful of death Lawrence Olivier in Hamlet 1948 Alas poor Yorick I knew him Horatio Marc Levoy Photographic still life Rosenblum Hermann Krone Still Life of the Washerwoman 1853 24 Marc Levoy Charles Aubry Leaves 1864 Rosenblum Baxendall Dead nature Rosenblum Rosenblum 26 Adolphe Braun Still Life with Deer and Wildfowl 1865 Jean Baptiste Oudry Hare Sheldrake Bottles Bread and Cheese 1742 Marc Levoy Genres still life Rosenblum Rosenblum 27 Adolphe Braun Still Life with Deer and Wildfowl 1865 Jean Baptiste Oudry Le P t 1743 at the S F Palace of Legion of Honor Marc Levoy Ansel Adams Still Life 1932 Still life photographs from CS 178 Nora Willett Memento Mori 2009 29 2010 Marc Levoy Tatiana Iskandar Vanitas 2009 Wajahat Qadeer Heart Ring 2009 ChangWhan Yea Caustics 2010 Naturalism Rosenblum reaction against the artificiality of genre photographs blend of Romanticism lyricism and early Impressionism importance of pose camera vantage point and atmosphere 33 Frank Sutcliffe Water Rats 1886 Marc Levoy Honour Naturalism Rosenblum George Caleb Bingham Fur Traders Descending the Missouri 1845 34 Frank Sutcliffe Water Rats 1886 Marc Levoy Rosenblum 35 Lidell Sawyer In the Twilight 1888 Marc Levoy Gardner Naturalism Rosenblum douard Manet Le D jeuner sur l herbe 1863 36 Lidell Sawyer In the Twilight 1888 Marc Levoy Daniel Pictorialism photography needed to emulate the art of painting extreme manipulation of the photograph photographic Impressionism Edward Steichen The Flatiron 1904 37 Marc Levoy Daniel Claude Monet The Thames and the Houses of Parliament 1871 Edward Steichen The Flatiron 1904 38 Marc Levoy Rosenblum 39 James Craig Annan A Black Canal 1894 Marc Levoy Pictorialism Rosenblum Claude Monet La Grenouill re The Frog Pond 1869 40 James Craig Annan A Black Canal 1894 Marc Levoy Rosenblum 41 E J Constant Puyo Summer 1903 Marc Levoy Pictorialism Rosenblum Claude Monet Poppy Field near V theuil 1879 42 E J Constant Puyo Summer 1903 Marc Levoy Animating pictures Chuang SIGGRAPH 2005 43 Claude Monet Bridge at Argenteuil 1874 Marc Levoy Animating pictures Chuang SIGGRAPH 2005 44 Marc Levoy Animating pictures Chuang SIGGRAPH 2005 45 Marc Levoy Alfred Stieglitz 46 1864 1946 began as a Pictorialist became a Realist as he addressed social themes then a Modernist as he photographed urban landscapes photographed and married painter Georgia O Keeffe first of the heroic age of artist photographers Marc Levoy Rosenblum Sun s Rays Paula Berlin 1889 Venetian Canal 1897 Leonardo Mona Lisa detail 1503 1519 example of sfumato Miss Thompson 1907 collaboration with Clarence White Daniel The Terminal 1893 printed 1913 The Steerage 1907 Portraits of Georgia O Keeffe 1907 1918 Daniel Spiritual America 1923 From the Shelton Westward New York 1931 Slide credits 56 Newhall B The History of Photography Little Brown Co 1982 Rosenblum N A World History of Photography 4th ed Abbeville Press 2007 Ludwig C Maxfield Parrish Watson Guptill 1973 Baxandall M Shadows and Enlightenment Yale University Press 1995 Tanser and Kleiner Gardner s Art Through the Ages 10th ed Harcourt Brace 1996 Honour and Fleming The Visual Arts A History 4th ed Harry Abrams 1995 Daniel M Stieglitz Steichen Strand Yale University Press 2011 Marc Levoy