HISTART 210 Midterm: Study Guide
Document Summary
A technology that helps us picture and detect. More effective to think of photography as a family of technologies. Variations from first appearance: daguerre vs. talbot: from the beginning there are two version, two that are public right off of the bat. In common: marking surfaces with the action of light: purposely leaves out cameras, we have already seen images created w/o. Range of social/cultural practices tasks, functions, uses cameras. (this is the catch all definition) Photographs as records: of people (self-presentation, social belonging, of geography (natural identity, survey labor, of historic events (visualization and narrative, of criminality, of poverty and reform, of phenomena beyond vision. Period sources for facts and historical attitudes: how were people thinking about photography at the time. Academic models for combining visual and historical evidence. Cultural criticism describing photography"s place in society. 1839- public birth of photography. the year photography goes from being an experiment to becoming a public phenomenon.
