CCS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Nicéphore Niépce, View From The Window At Le Gras, Heliography
20 Feb 2017
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In 19th century begin mediating and storing new senses images and sound. Shirt in how and where images are seen and what they capture. Transformation of what images do (photojournalism, advertising) People have been keeping visual records of themselves and the things around them for millennia. These images are an attempt to communicate, from one person to another, the things we see. Photography (cid:862)(cid:449)riti(cid:374)g (cid:449)ith light(cid:863) gives us the means to record and exame day-to- day activities/experiences. A photograph preserves what a memory cannot. 4th century bce written description of a camera obscura in han dynasty. Aristotle (350 bce) first described formation of a crude optical image. 16th century davinci diagrammed workings of camera and instructions on how to use it. (cid:862)darke(cid:374)ed roo(cid:373)(cid:863); i(cid:374)trodu(cid:272)ed (cid:271)y italia(cid:374)s (cid:894)early (cid:1005)5(cid:1004)(cid:1004)(cid:895) tech. improved slowly beginning in 16th cent. By early 1700s, basic optical equipment necessary for manufacturing a camera was available.
