FAH291H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Clementina Maude, Viscountess Hawarden, Carte De Visite, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
28 Sep 2016
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The great debate in the 1850"s and 1860"s. Was photography merely a handmaiden of art or could it be and art unto itself: hirsch. Baudelaire saw photography as factual: data gatherer, handmaiden to science and art, absolute factual exactitude. The court ruled that mayer and pierson"s celebrity portraits were protected by the same copyright laws that applied to artistic production. The countess castiglione calls attention to the act of framing o. Photography starts to become a place for the staging of fantasies and desires. Used photography as aid to his paintings and drawings. Posed nude models for durieu and used such source material as resources for his work. Try to make photographs as unique and one of a kind. Paradox: using technological machines to depict the fantasies. Turns to don quixote the dreamer of impossible dreams as subject. The theatricality of playacting before the camera became a key feature of victorian photography.
