MPS 406 Lecture 3: Visual Culture of Photo
18 Jan 2019
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Light, paper, process: reinventing photography: work based on hands on processes. William henry fox talbot, queen anne"s lace, c. 1835: talbot"s word for a photographic image of a flat translucent object (drawing on translucent paper, place object under glass in contact with light sensitive material. Hippolyte bayard, cahier d"assais, 1839: developed a process but didn"t get credit for it, staged self portrait looking dead in response. Jean bernard leon foucault, spectre solaire, 1844: daguerreotype, remarkably detailed photo on polished silver. Thomas augustine malone, demonstratin of the talbotype, 1848: performance work, conceptual, showed people how it worked by making the word talbotype appear on paper. Talbot, copy of a label for hypo-sulfite, 1858. Talbot, 3 sheets of gauze, crossed obliquely, 1852-57. Matthew brandy (1982: uses water from areas to treat images about water, placing colour photos in the water represented in the pictures, can produce large images (has large paper unlike rossiter, statement about what"s in the waters.
