Sunday, August 22, 2010

lesson 4

History of photography

Colonialism

Movies today by:

Brook Andrews.

“Message stick”

Tracie Morphett.

“Nice coloured girls”

1]

“You’re just showing another primitive part of us.”

Wants to make art that is not just about aboriginality.

“ He has taken the museum object and liberated it”

2]

Ohhhhkaayyy….

Very interesting imagery.

Im not sure what I think about this film, its very in your face. It is a very different perspective of the time.

lesson 3

History photography lesson 3

Research:

LJM Daguerre

Creator of the daguerreotype.

The 1st daguerreotypes took 20mins to take.

William Henry fox Talbot. [English]

Created the negatives.

Wrote “the pencil of nature”

Had to subscribe to receive the book, it was quite expensive.

Nadar.

Nadar by Nadar 1858

Nadar self portrait 1855.

Was one of the 1st to take photos of famous people.

Hippolyte Bayard.

Self portrait as a drowned man 1840.

Frederick Scott Archer, Inventor of the wet collodion process 1880

Lewis Carroll – Ambrotype.

Julia Margaret Cameron.

Photo: Charles Baudelaire, 1863 by etenne Carjat [woodburytype]

Bird cage 1900

“how can we use photography to see what we cant see?”

Movie “Click”

Medium format camera’s