CAMERA ARTSFilm &

Introduction

Camera is the Latin word for “room” The desire to record and preserve

images is probably as old as civilization itself

Camera obscura- practical device that could harness the image-transferring property of light. Ex. Dark closet/hole/paper/image

Photography

An artistic inspiration that tells the hands what to find and record.

Just as a painter’s brain tells the hands what marks to make on a canvas, the photographer’s brain is telling the camera what to do.

Constantly seeing compositions

Portraits

cartes de visite, French for “visiting card”- a photograph of yourself, roughly the size of a playing card

Ex. Mathew Brady- Cooper Union college (Abraham Lincoln Cooper Union speech)

Landscape

Capturing of nature’s forms Ex. Timothy O’Sullivan- Sand Springs

Nevada 1867 Ansel Adams- moon and Half Dome

1966 Berenice Abbott- Nightview, New

York 1932

Photography in Print: Photojournalism Newspapers during the 19th century still had

to capture images by drawing, lithographs or wood engravings.

The development of photography in today’s world is usually used by photojournalists.

Luck + Skill= Good photojournalist Ex. Robert Frank- Trolley, New Orleans 1955-

56 Sebastiao Salgado- Gold Miners at Serra

Palada para Brazil 1987

Photography and Art

Dada- Ex. Hannah Hoch- Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada through the Germany’s Last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch 1919

Surrealism- often revealed something strange and usually just for a split second everything can come together

Ex. Henri Cartier-Bresson- Valencia 1933

Ex. Andres Serrano- Black Supper II 1990

Film

Throughout history artists have tried to create the illusion of motion in a still image

Makes images on a screen seem real

1st commercial movie theater in history December 28, 1895 Paris café basement Ex. The Arrival of a Train at the

Station (Lumieres Brothers)-1st silent films

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Charles Chaplin

A man who tapped the endlessly entertaining possibilities of the human condition

Laughing at oneself and situations in everyday life

Charlie the character was your basic underdog that always fell short or accidents happened to that also had a heart of gold.

Modern Times 1936

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1930’s

Color photography in film was perfected

Ex. David O. Selznick-Gone with the Wind

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1941 Citizen Kane

26 year old boy genius-Orson Welles Created this film almost single-

handed Played the lead role, produced,

directed, co-author of screenplay, supervised the editing and set design, costumes.

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1950’s and 1960’s

Ingmar Bergman (Swedish)- Ex. 1957 The Seventh Seal-Death and the Knight playing chess

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Vita- “the sweet life”- contrast between old stable views and society’s new focus on instant sensual gratification

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Special Effects and Animation Series of drawings or cartoons, each

slightly different, arranged on film and projected in a speed that makes the drawing seem like its moving.

In film anything is possible Animation- “bringing to life” Ex. King Kong- 1932- most

memorable 1st examples of special effects

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Walt Disney

Employed armies of artists to do original movies

The mechanics are now simplified by computers

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Video

Art=communication Video art=mass communication No other medium even approaches its

potential to present millions of people one visual experience at the same time.

Now with computers the possibilities are endless

Ex. Peter Campus- Three Translations 1973

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