ARTS 150 1st Edition Lecture 26 Beginning of Section 4 - Modernism in Western ArtOutline of Lecture 26I. PhotographyII. Anthropometry III. ExhibitionsCurrent LecturePhotography (the technical aspect of this section)Camera obscuraHas been an idea since the late Renaissance, but there was no way to permanently affix the image Louis DaguerreThe Artist's Studio, ParisGoes back to the early genre of still life Daguerreotype = earliest photography technique, prints image directly onto a treated silver-plated copper sheet, not good for portraits at first, they would come out blurry Daguerreotype of Samuel Finely Breese MorsePeople prefer this for portraits instead of paintings, faster, cheaper Henry Fox TalbotThe Open Door, England, calotype, paper negative Oscar RejlanderTwo Ways of Life, England, calotypeOne side is refined & Christian, one is sex & drugs & rock and rollQueen Victoria bought multiple of this print Pictorialism = create photos with the same concepts of composition of paintings *start using glass plate negatives, printing on treated paper (alumen and egg whites) Timothy O'SullivanHome of the Rebel Sharpshooter: Battlefield at Gettysburg, USA, glass plate negative, albumen printThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.Photographers starting using photography to document warMany are known to have composed their photos (dragged bodies, added props)High detail photography Harvest of Death, USA, glass plate negative, albumen printPeople trust want the photographs of the battle instead of sketches Julia Margaret CameronPortrait of Thomas Carlyle, England, glass plate negative, albumen printHas access to all the necessary equipment (was wealthy) and to important people of the dayPurposely used a soft focus, pictorialism Pre-Raphaelite StudyDresses up her friends to recreate paintings in photography Anthropometry= the measure of man; more specifically the scientific attempt to use photography to classify races and ethnicities according to facial and body typesThe images of the African American men are ordered by "attractiveness" based on similarity to European featuresDocumentary photographs of Australian aboriginals and Native American Pawnee, late 19th cent.Skews people's ideas about these people, creates/reinforces stereotypes *Japan opens up its borders Stillfried studiosBlind Masseuse, 1870, japanBeing a masseuse was considered a good job for the blind They would carry a cane and a small flute (they play a specific tune to let you know they were a masseuse Joseph PaxtonCrystal Palace, England, 1851First world exposition in historyGreenhouse style structure, steel framework filled with glassPeople of the time thought it was uglyInterior:Internal structures can be taken down, put up, reconfiguredExpositions would have tens of millions of peopleDisplayed different aspects of the country, showing off Gustave EiffelEiffel Tower, Paris, cast iron, 1000 ft. highBuilt on swampy ground, also had to account for wind forceMachine aestheticLots of people hated it at the timeWas not initially meant to be permanent Machine Aesthetic =World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893To honor Columbus’s “discovery” of the Americas Types and development of Man, Poster made for the St. Louis world's fairLists ethnicities like a ladder with white at the top and everyone else was below them Anthropometry= scientific racism, "biology is destiny" Jean-Auguste-Dominique IngresLarge OdalisqueVery offensive Edward SaidOrientalism, bookWhen a dominant culture is writes about subordinate culture - displays sub as childlike, no neutrality Jean-Leon GeromeThe Snake Charmer, FranceUsed on the cover of Said's bookNude boy - brings up pedophilic, child endangermentWatchers are on the floor crouched together, are very raggedy, carrying spears and shields Tiles on the wall are falling
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