AHS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Oscar Gustave Rejlander, Combination Printing, Dorothea Lange
7 Oct 2016
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Engraving of a camera obscura: darkened camera o. Abelardo morell, camera obscura image of the panth on in the hotel de grandes. Anna atkinds, halydrys siliquiosa, cyanotype: chemically treated paper. Kept in dark room: lay objects onto paper, botanical plants, negative image. Louis daguerre, the artist"s studio, daguerreotype: negative image, invited process by printing on metal plates, soft focus elements, this kind of photograph is documenting the world, still life- arrangement of objects in a particular way. Julia margaret cameron, angel of the nativity. b/w photograph: deliberately created poetic image, invented own lenses, arranging subject, soft focus. Lewis, ten year old spinner, whitnel cotton mill. b/w: changed child labor laws, tells a story, just taking a picture of an object-objective, no interaction. Dorothea lange, migrant mother. b/w: photo journalism, tells a story, interacts with people in her photos. Ansel adams, sand dunes: sunrise, death valley monument-california. b/w: almost looks like a painting, landscape photography, frames image, traditional landscape.
