1. 1. Brief lectures in Media History Chapter Four History of Photography (7 of 15)
2. 2. Durable media Assyrian pine cone ritual by bird-man figure. 800 BCE Stone and clay tablets of this era demonstrate what Harold Innis called durable time-biased forms of media
3. 3. Illuminated manuscripts Note the monk here is using both ink pen and paint brush, indicating that both words and pictures are important.
4. 4. Columbus - 1490s Cover image from Letters of Columbus circulated throughout Europe in early 1500s
5. 5. Nuremberg Chronicles 1493 A fascinating glimpse into the Medieval mindset, the Chronicles depict five Biblical ages from creation to the birth of Christ, then one age to the present and a seventh age leading to the Last Judgment.
6. 6. Albrecht Drer 1518
7. 7. Hogarth (1697 1764) especially, is noteworthy as taking advantage of an age in which the visual environment was becoming increasingly complex.William Hogarth 1751
8. 8. Benjamin Franklin 1754
9. 9. Hokusai Katsushika, c. 1790
10. 10. Hokusai Katsushika, c.1790
11. 11. Thomas Nast
12. 12. John James Audubon 1827
13. 13. Currier & Ives 1840
14. 14. Currier & Ives c. 1869
15. 15. Belle Star 1886 Myra Maybelle Shirley Star escapes from jail in this 1886 depiction from the National Police Gazette. Even before photography, television and the internet, people enjoyed sensational stories of rebellion and wild characters.
16. 16. The trial of Oscar WildePolice News London 1895
17. 17. Editorial cartoon Minneapolis c. 1902
18. 18. Artists& writers disliked photos People have not only ceased to purchase those old-fashioned things called books, but even to read them! . . . The beauties of Shakespeare are imprinted on the minds of the rising generation in woodcuts; and the poetry of Byron (is) engraved in their hearts, by means of the graver . . . (In the future) Books, the small as well as the great, will have been voted a great evil. There will be no gentlemen of the press. The press itself will have ceased to exist. -- William Blackwood, 1844Honor Daumier saw photography as a lazy way to produce art.
19. 19. Joseph Niepce - first photo 1826
20. 20. Louis DaguerreAnd a Daguerrotype of a famous American. Can you guess who it is?
21. 21. Elevating photography to art HonorDaumier lithograph c. 1862. Note the many photo studios on the streets of Paris below. Nadar (GaspardFlixTournachon) was a photographer and ballonist. The reason he is elevating photography to art is because at the time onlyart could be copyrighted.
22. 22. Making fun of photograpy
23. 23. Bisson brothers,18 50s
24. 24. Roger Fentons Crimean War outfit
25. 25. On or off? Which came first?
26. 26. On or off? Which came first?
27. 27. Civil War Matthew Brady
28. 28. Brady Antietam 1862
29. 29. Brady with Burnside, portrait
30. 30. Oscar Wilde copyright controversy This photo was widely reproduced without permission, giving rise to the Burrow-Giles case that put photography under copyright protection in 1884.
31. 31. Eugene Atget 1898 Paris
32. 32. Edward Curtis 1908
33. 33. George Eastman Kodak Co. Celluloid film camera, 1880s
34. 34. Pictorialism Edward Steichen Flatiron 1905
35. 35. Joseph Stieglitz Steerage
36. 36. Straight photography Paul Strand Wall Street 1915
37. 37. Social reform Jacob Riis 1890s
38. 38. Lewis Hine
39. 39. Lewis HinePowerhouse mechanic 1920
40. 40. Sebastiao Salgado
41. 41. Sebastiao Salgado
42. 42. Walker Evans
43. 43. Dorothea Lange
44. 44. Gordon Parks Hired by the FSA in 1942, took this picture on his first day on the job of Ella Watson.
45. 45. War photography: Capa
46. 46. Robert Capa
47. 47. D-Day Capa
48. 48. Robert Capa
49. 49. Margaret Bourke White
50. 50. W. Eugene Smith
51. 51. Joe Rosenthal
52. 52. WEEGEE Arthur Fellig (1898 1968) was a tough New York news photographer
53. 53. Peter Liebing, 1961, Berlin
54. 54. Malcolm Browne, 1963, photo of ThichQuangDuc
55. 55. Eddie Adams, Vietnam, 1968
56. 56. John Filo, Kent State, 1970
57. 57. Nick Ut, Vietnam, 1972
58. 58. Tiananmen Square, 1989
59. 59. Earthrise - NASA Photo by astronaut William Anders of Apollo 8 on Christmas Eve, 1968.
60. 60. Ansel Adams Relocation camp 1942. While it has the characteristic mountain scene in the background, the photo is a protest over the treatment of Japanese Americans in World War II.
61. 61. W. Eugene Smith, Minamata, 1972
62. 62. Robert Mapplethorpe (1946 1989)
63. 63. Annie Liebowitz
64. 64. Kevin Carter, 1993, Sudan
65. 65. Carol Guzy, Nikki Kahn and Ricky Carioti 2011 Pulitizer Haiti earthquake
66. 66. W. Eugene Smith"The Walk to Paradise Garden 1942