ART 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Henry Fox Talbot, Photosensitivity, Kodak
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Changing technologies affect the production and viewing of imagery. Sometimes we assume that photography, film, and video produce more accurate representations of the real world than other art forms. We will see, however, that these mediums are no more objective than others. A small hole shows a ray of light that projects a scene upside-down on the opposite wall. While a camera obscura could capture an image, it could not independently preserve it; artists traced the image on canvas or paper. (slide 3) example b: photography developed separately in england and france. William henry fox talbot used paper coated with light-sensitive chemicals to produce photogenic drawings. (slide 4) the french worked with daguerreotypes a daguerreotype is a photographic process that yielded a positive image on a metal plate. Daguerreotypes were deemed to be so realistic that some artists declared painting to be dead, suggesting that painting no longer needed to replicate nature.
