MPC 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Hippolyte Bayard, Calotype, Cyanotype
Document Summary
Pp: hippolyte bayard, self-portrait as a drowned man, france, We remember that bayard had invented a version of photography, but that it wa not noticed, as was daguerre"s. It"s thought that bayard staged this scene of himself as a drowned man to express his unhappiness about this. It is a dramatic narrative that tells a story. (not shown)- the madeleine between the square and the church, c1842-50, calotype. This looks too modern for that period this has a modernist sensibility, which is formalist interest in form, line Pp: clausel, landscape near troyes, c. 1855, dag. Those who took up photography near the beginning, just adopted the same conventions that had become accepted within the medium of painting. They just adapted them to the new medium of photography. Landscape was by then becoming an accepted genre within art, though lower in the hierarchy than other types. This image follows the conventions of landscape painting.
