MPC 125 Lecture 2: 2
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Pp: henri le secq, farmyard scene, c. 1852, cyanotype print. This is the case with many of those that took up photography in the early years. They either continued to painting and used photography as a tool, or model from which to paint, or they switched altogether to photography. Early photographers just carried on with the pictorial conventions of painting, using their radical new technology to make traditional kinds of images. This cyanotype print is similar to some of talbot"s genre- type scenes in subject matter. Pp: gustave le gray, mediterranean sea at sete, 1856- 9, albumen silver print from two glass negatives. Within the debates arose theories about what would constitute art. Le gray advocated the use of the principles of painting in photography to create an overall aesthetic harmony. Like many others, including hill and adamson, and critic,
