Media, Information and Technoculture 2000F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Documentary Photography, Mathew Brady, Louis Daguerre

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Multiple prints from single glass negative therefore enabling multiple copies of photographs. Allowed george dawson, canadian geographer, to photograph on his expeditions. Linked to a man named mathew brady. One"s character could be shown through a photograph". Over time, price of photography decreased and was made affordable to not only the wealthy as it once was. Symbol of inner self, not just a recording of an image. Use photos as keepsakes of the deceased. People would die before they got their photo taken. Tangible way for people to have a memento or record of one"s presence. Offers police and comfort of those mourning the deceased. Shocking to see this at this time. Horror of war being made real through the documentation. In the past, war was depicted through romanticism and heroism. Photography changed the popular conception of war and framed it as repulsive/ brutal/ violent. Way to document social donations, especially in cities.

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