MDIA 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Tina Modotti, Gertrude Käsebier, The Terminal
22 Dec 2016
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Photography is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality. Blow-up: film by michelangelo antonioni (1966: photography amplifying vision. 19th century cameras required expert skills: 19th-century cameras were expensive, heavy, and required professional skills for handling. The roll film was invented in 1881, and began to replace photo plates, allowing cameras to become smaller: the smaller negatives required an enlarger for producing the prints. Previously, prints were produced as contact copies, with the size of the. Kodak 1, introduced in 1888 negative and the positive being identical: george eastman obtained a license for roll films for his new generation of smaller cameras. Popularization of photography begins in 1910: the famous kodak slogan was you press the button we do the rest , the smaller size of the equipment had important consequences. Folding pocket kodak"s: price: . 50, the folding mechanism reduced the size of cameras considerably. Photography becomes: photojournalism, art, popular photography (snapshots, specialized (science, forensic)
