ART H210 Lecture Notes - Albumen Print, Cangue, Carrie Mae Weems
11 Feb 2012
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Bourne, valley and snowy peaks seen form the hamta pass, spiti side, 1863-66. Bourne was a banker in england and quit to take up photography in 1862, moved to india. This image was taken out in the mountains, and thinking of all the equipment he would have needed being a wet collodion process this would have been a lot of work. He would have had his glass plates, which are larger 10x? so his camera would have been larger as well. Lots of challenges; scenery wasn t suited for picturesque images; it had to be more suitable as art rather then nature. Wanted to see the landscapes as something someone would want to buy. Made books on how to take walks and find picturesque photos. Add things to the image to make it picturesque. Bourne was trying to mimic gilpin s work and create those picturesque images.
