Chapter 12 Photography and Time Based Media 11 12 2012 Eadweard Muybridge Annie G Cantering Saddled Inspired other artists Photography Phos light Graphos writing Walker Evans Roadside Store between Tuscaloosa and Greensboro Example of just such instant collage Evans s mission as a photographer was to capture every aspect of American visual reality Early History The word camera is the Latin word for room Camera obscura was routinely used by artists to copy nature accurately In England William Henry Fox Talbot presented a process for fixing negative images on paper coated with light sensitive chemicals a process called photogenic drawing In France a different process which yielded a positive image on a polished metal was named the daguerreotype William Henry Fox Talbot Mimosoidea Suchas Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre Le Boulevard du Temple Richard Beard Maria Edgeworth Talbot The Open Door Was the first artistic picture that changed the way we used the Calotype In 1850 the English sculptor Frederick Archer introduced a new wetplate collodion photographic process that was almost universally adopted within five years In a darkened room he poured liquid collodion over a glass plate bathed in a solution of silver nitrate Julia Margaret Cameron Portait of Thomas Carlyle Timothy O Sullivan Harvest of Death Form and Content Alfred Stieglitz The Steerage Charles Sheeler Criss crossed Conveyors Ford Plant Hired by Ford Sebastiao Salgado Four Figures in the Desert An My Le Small Wars ambush I Henri Carier Bresson Athens The Photographic Print and Its Manipulation Ansel Adams who with Colleague Fred Archer Developed the Zone System in the late 1930 s Adams defined the Zone System as a framework for understanding exposures and development and visualizing their effect in advance A zone represents the relation of the image s brightness to the value or tone that the photographer wishes it to appear in the final print Aperture the size of the opening of the lens Dodging decrease the exposure of selected areas of the print that the photographer wishes to be lighter Burning increase the exposure to areas of the print that should be darker Ansel Adams Moonrise Hernandez Jerry N Uelsmann Color Photography Joel Meyeroqitz Porch Uses advantage of dynamic color ocntrasts Annie Leibovits Karen Finley at her home in Nyack Edgar Degas After the Bath Andreas Gursky 99 Cent Editing is the process of arranging the sequences of a film after it has been shot in its entirety Fernand Leger Ballet Mecanique D W Griffith Battle scene from the Birth of a Nation Nam June Paik Video Flag 11 12 2012 11 12 2012