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Photography

And the Proliferation of a Visual Vernacular

MEDIA 180: 20 March 2017

• The rise of a market in images, consumable

images.

• The outlook of images, more and more,

reflecting the point of view of ordinary

individuals, of secular life.

• New conception of truth: from mysterious to

visually legible.

• Rise of a visual vernacular. Images that imitate

the ways that ordinary people see.

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“Sistine Madonna,” a chromo by Louis Prang & Co. Chromolithograph Advertisement: Scrapbook Glue

<— Collecting Images

“Pictures come not with slavery and oppression and destitution, but with liberty”

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Jane Austin Silhouette Portrait (c. 1811) The First Photograph

Joseph Nicephore Niepce: View of a Pigeon Coop (1826)

Louis Daguerre: Daguerreotype Process, 1837-1838

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William Henry Fox Talbot, Paper Negative and Print William Henry Fox Talbot, Open Door, 1844

Holmes-Bates Stereoscope Erotic Stereograph: Ownership and Orientalism in 3D

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Portrait Studio, 1843 Portrait Chair

Gen. Ulysses S. Grant having portrait taken Portrait as Credential

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Portrait as Tool of Criminal Identification: Alphonse Bertillon Bertillon Ears

Portrait as Scientific Specimen: Arab Head at Museum d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris The Moon, 1851

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Flea under microscope, 1863 Colossus of Abu Simbel, 1850

Sarah Bernhardt, Actress Harriet Tubman, “Moses” of the Underground Railroad

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Paris Communards 1871

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Paris Communards 1871

Brady Portrait of Abraham Lincoln, 1860

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Brady Portrait Mass Produced: Magazines Brady Portrait Mass Produced: Campaign Button

Before and After: Workhouse for Children Girl at Spinning Machine

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Child Miners

Commerce in Photographic Narratives: Magic Lantern Slide Shows

History of a Jump (Thos. Eakins, 1885) Eadweard J. Muybridge, motion studies

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Eadweard J. Muybridge, motion studies animated