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1st show of daguerreotypes ⟹ success
Used for portraits, became a way of reporting events like wars -
Negatives and paper prints ⟹ multiple paper images possible
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Photographers chronicled the conflict
Documentary photographies -
Photography used for mapping the country ⟹ more detailed and precise
Helped the construction railroads and the work of geologists and naturalists -
by George Eastman / Revolution in the photography ⟹ laid the foundation for popular, spontaneous and amateur photography
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by Jacob Riis, texts and pictures describing homeless boys
Use of the flash ⟹ possibility of taking pictures inside and outside -
Blurry-edged pictures with soft, dreamy atmospheric effects
Connection painting-photography -
Stieglez created the movement Photo-Secession to promote Pictorialism
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Stieglez founded the journal Camera Work
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Stieglez opened a gallery, centre for avant-garde art
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by Alfred Stieglez
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by Paul Strand
Geometric compositions, unusual perspectives -
Refuse traditional values and ideologies
"Rayographs" -
"Straight" photography, 2D, close-ups
Inspired by the machine and the industrial age -
by Man Ray
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After the crash of the 1929
Creation of the Federal Art Project and Farm Security Administration to help artists, documents the lives of farmers and preserve these photos -
Photographers chronicled condition of people's lives
Rise of photo books -
Creation of Magnum Photos to make photographers independant from magazines
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Richard Avedon, advertisement for Dior in the Cirque d'Hiver in Paris
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Field of fashion photography led by Irving Penn and Richard Avedon / Harper's Bazaar, Vogue
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by Gilbert and George "the Living Sculptors", turned themselves and lives into sculptures
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Photography ⟹ ideal medium, can be duplicated an infinite number of times, based on illusion, can be manipulated
Essential elements in the growing interactions between the arts
Andy Warhol, Barbara Kruger -
Victor Burgin, same image repeated ten times with a different text each time
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by Cindy Sherman, both actor and viewer, she disguised herself for her pictures
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by Robert Mapplethorpe, his homoerotic photographies have shocked
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Controversy between artists who represented gay, transgender, erotic art and those who called for censorship
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by Barbara Kruger, created images with found photographs taken out of their context across which she added texts in the manner of advertising slogans
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Variety of individual arts, eclectic arts ⟹ globalization opened up to the influence of other cultures, multiculturalism
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Computerization and Net Art
Art available to all
Connection art-business
