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Field Trip #3
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Field Trip – Wed, October 19Martin Luther King Library
Meet at the information desk at 9:00am
150 E. San Fernando Street, San Jose, CA 95112(San Fernando & Fourth Street)
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Mel Chin’s Art at the Library
- Mel Chin was born in Texas in 1951
- Is a conceptual visual artist
- He insinuates art into unlikely places,including destroyed homes, toxic landfills,and even popular television
He believes that art can provoke greatersocial awareness and responsibility
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Free 1-hour Guided Tour!
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Field Trip Assignment
Please write a few paragraphs about the tour. Whatdid you like/ did not like about it? What was your
favorite piece or an installation? Describe it in detail(size, materials, colors, textures, how it was
constructed). What was the concept behind it?The paper should be no longer than a page and
a half. Please give me a printout.
DUE ON MONDAY, OCT. 24
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Photography
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Photography
“The art or process of producing imagesby the action of radiant energy and
especially light on a sensitive surface (film).”
Mirriam-Webster Online Dictionary
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1. Chinese Philosopher Mo Ti – 5th B.C.E.Noticed that light passing through a pinhole opening into adarkened chamber forms an exact view of the world outside,but upside down
2. Alhazen – Arab mathematician and physicist, 11th A.D. Concluded that light travels in straight lines (similar to the human eye)
3. Camera Obscura - Renaissance
The Birth of Photography
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Used during the Renaissance period.
Camera Obscura – “Dark Chamber”
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Camera Obscura – “Dark Chamber”
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Pinhole Camera
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1. Camera Obscura - RenaissanceOn optical device that projects an image onto flat surface
2. Lens – approx. 1570Help to focus an image projected
3. Daguerreotype - 1837Preserves an image
4. Improved LensesReduce exposure time to a fraction of a second
Other Photographic Inventions
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Image is preserved on a light-sensitive surface – a copper plate coated with silver iodide
Daguerreotype – 1837
Le Boulevard du Temple, Louise Jacques Mande Daguerre, Daguerreotype, 1839
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Photographer Unknown. Daguerreotype of a Couple Holding a Daguerreotype, 1850
1st Commercially viable method for making permanentimages from reflected light
Daguerreotype – 1837
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A camera is a light-tide box with an opening at one end to admit light, a lens to focus and refract the light, and
a light-sensitive surface such as film to receive the image and hold it.
First Portable Cameras
French Daguerreotype Camera, 1850 (left) / 5x7 Eastman View Camera, 1885 (right)
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1888 – Invention of Kodak by George EastmanCan be taken anywhere you go!!!Photography becomes a hobby.
First Lightweight, Handheld Camera
Kodak Camera & Film, 1888
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Lincoln “Cooper Union” Portrait, Mathew Brady, 1860
Mathew Brady - Portrait Photography
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Charles Darwin (left); The Rosebud Garden of Girls (right), Julia Margaret Cameron, 1868
Julia Margaret Cameron’s Portraits
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Ancient Ruins in the Canon De Chelle, Timothy O’Sullivan, 1873 (left)Colorado River From Camp 8, Timothy O’Sullivan, 1871 (right)
Landscape Photography
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The Role of Photography:
1. Record events as history is unfolding
2. Document and preserve a visual recordof what existed for a time
Invention of photomechanical reproduction –high-speed printing of photos and type (1900)gives rise to Photojournalism.
Documentary Photography is Born!
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Migrant Mother, Dorothea Lange, (hired by Farm Security Administration), 1936 (left)Migrant Mother Series, Dorothea Lange, 1936 (right)
Photography During the Great Depression
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“One aspect of photography that some felt stood in theway of making art was its detailed objectivity, whichseemed more suited for science.”
Artists tried to make their works look like paintings:– Created images that looked painterly (blurry, atmospheric, etc.)
– Staged things, people to be photographed toresemble a painting
– Created images by placing objects directly onphotographic plates, etc.
Photography and Art
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Fading Away, Henry Peach Robinson, 1858, Composite print
Photography and Art
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Composite Photograph, John P. Morrissey, 1896
Tableaux Vivants contained “high art” themes andwere designed to resemble classical paintings.
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Photomontage Technique
The technique of making a picture by assemblingpieces of photographs, often in combination with
other types of graphic material.
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1. Composite pictures made by darkroom masking (multiple exposures made onto the same plate, unexposed areas – masked by pieces of black velvet )
2. Images were created using “cut and paste” technique, than re-photographed
3. Double Exposure
4. Direct contact printing of objects placed on photographic plates
How Were Photomontages Made?
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Man With the Rubber Head, Film Still, 1902
German Postcard, Anon, 1902
Examples of Photomontage
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Direct contact printing of objects placed on photographic plates, Man Ray, 1922
“Rayograph” images
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“For photography to be an art, it must be true to itsown nature; it should not try to be painting.”
Alfred Stieglitz
“Pure” Photography
- Emphasis on formal values: composition,line, value
- Images framed with the viewfinder;not cropped, not manipulated
- Composition, tonal values, etc. are visualizedin advance
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Bridalveil Fall, Ansel Adams, 1960, photographic print (left)Untitled, Alfred Stieglitz, 1924, photographic print (right)
Photography and Art
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Photography Itself Becomesthe Subject Matter
As everyday life gets flooded with photographicimages which start to compete with direct
experience, artists start to examine the roleof Photography in society (the particularvision of the world it promotes, and the
assumptions we make about it).
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What is Photography?
Is it a tool for making imagesor a tool for recording the world?
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Cut With the Kitchen Knife Dada through Germany’s Last Weinmar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch, Hannah Hoch, 1919, collage
“Found” Images and Collage
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Untitled #123, Cindy Sherman, 1983
Contemporary Photography
Untitled #209, Cindy Sherman, 1989
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Untitled Film Still #14, Cindy Sherman, 1978
Contemporary Photography
“I wanted to make somethingthat anyone off the street couldappreciate... I wanted to
imitatesomething out of the culture,and also make fun of theculture as I was doing it.”
Cindy Sherman
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Binh Dahnhttp://www.kqed.org/arts/programs/spark/profile.jsp?essid=7660
Contemporary Photography
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Chtulhu People, Image #d6, Gulnur Guvenc, Adobe Photoshop
Photography & Computer – 1980s to Present
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Peter Kennard – London, 1980s“There is a problem with montage in that you see it everywhere now because
of digital technology. There is so much transformed imagery around that people accept constructed images without questioning their meaning. I think
my work is losing impact because of that.” – Peter Kennard
Peter Kennard, Protect and
Survive, 1981 Peter Kennard,Untitled ,1982
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JR – French graffiti artist, photographerhttp://www.ted.com/talks/jr_s_ted_prize_wish_use_art_to_turn_the_world_inside_out.html