Photography/PhotoJournalism MIT2000 Photography/PhotoJournalism 1/24/2018

Early Photography Daguerreotype, 1839 Louis Daguerre unique image 1/24/2018

Wet Plate Collodion wet plate collodion process, 1850s- multiple prints from single glass negative http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOTCqwwynuE 1/24/2018

Dry Plate Collodion Process No More Portable Darkrooms George Dawson, “Geological Survey of Canada” Mobility Photos of Remote areas 1/24/2018

Portraiture Mathew Brady 1840s -1870s Portraiture Nationalism Citizenship Character 1/24/2018

Democratic Portraiture Painted portraits Wealthy/luxury Photographic portrait “emblem of democracy” Individual as Coherent Self Symbol of Inner Self 1/24/2018

The Living Dead Photo as keepsake of deceased “Sleeping Subject” 1/24/2018

Powerful Photographs 1/24/2018

Seeing, Believing: War Documentary Civil War, 1861-65 M. Brady A. Gardner/T. O’Sullivan Horror of War Orchestrated Realism 1/24/2018

Romantic/Documentary Depiction 1/24/2018

Social Documentary Jacob Riis Affect Social Change Reform Movement “How the Other Half Lives”, 1890 Affect Social Change Reform Movement Cultural “Other” 1/24/2018

Kodak Camera, 1888 George Eastman hand-held, point-and-shoot box camera Portability/Affordability Brownie camera ($1) early 1900s 1/24/20181/24/20181/24/2018

Kodak Camera, 1888 amateur users Autobiographical record Nostalgia Time Machine/Time Bias? Nostalgia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suRDUFpsHus (Don Draper/”Mad Men”) 1/24/20181/24/20181/24/2018

Personal nostalgia/photograph Nostalgia: “Pain from an old wound” -”Twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone” “Takes us to a place where we ache to go again” -”let’s us travel the way a child travels, around and around back home again. To a place where we where we know we were loved” -photos as time machine 1/24/2018

Comparison Wet Plate Collodian (1860s) Kodak Brownie (1910) Complex Technology Expert operators Relatively Expensive Fixed Location Usage Easy-to-use device User operated Affordable ($1) Mobile Use Personal Nostalgia 1/24/2018

Photo-Journalism Flash photography, 1887 Camera improvements (Kodak); snap-shot camera, fast drying gelatin plate, Movement/action photography Photo-journalist: wars, disasters, public events 1/24/20181/24/20181/24/2018

Photo-Journalism Wirephoto, 1921 Flash bulbs, late 1920s Photo Agencies Bain’s News Picture Service Veracity/immediacy 1/24/20181/24/20181/24/2018

Photography’s Rapid Uptake Mechanical Process Self-Representation Individual/familial Realism/Objectivity and Point-of-View Subjectivity 1/24/2018