A Picture is worth a Thousand Words The Persuasive Power of Photography The Persuasive Power of Photography
The Invention of Photography The basic chemistry –Johanne Schultze - light-sensitive materials –Carl Scheele - fixing the image First Photographs –Joseph Niepce- permanent image using an emulsion –Louis Daugerre - direct-positive image on metal –William Henry Fox Talbot - paper negative, allowed multiple images –Fredrick Archer -glass negative, multiple images with sharper detail
Camera Obscuro From Greek meaning dark chamber
Calotype Prints William Henry Fox Talbot Calotype paper negative Paper print (positive) form calotype negative
One of the earliest photographs using an emulsion. Joseph Neipce From Laboratory to Art
Daguerreotype a direct-positive process using an emulsion on a metal plate LouisDaguerre From Laboratory to Art
Naturalists –Nature recorded without changing it (Realism) Pictorialists –Photographs should look like paintings (Emotionalism)
Phillip Henry Delamotte Naturalists
Pictorialists Oscar J. Rejlander
Bringing distant lands home Carte dvisite - (postcards) Photo Journalists –War Photographers Matthew BradyTimothy Sullivan Robert CapaLarry Burrows Carl MydansW. Eugene Smith –Life Magazine Photographers Margaret Bourke-WhiteJacob Riis Alfred EisenstaedtLewis Hine
Carte dvisite - (postcards) souvenirs of visits to far away places Carte dvisite
Artists Photographers Alfred StieglitzEdward Weston James Van Der ZeeEdward Steicen Gordon ParksAnsel Adams Arnold NewmanAnnie Liebowitz Paul StrandDianne Arbus Imogen Cunningham From Laboratory to Art
Memory Makers Timeline –Earliest photographs appeared around 1839 Events throughout history
Photojournalism Timothy OSullivan
Matthew Brady Photojournalism
The Golden Spike used to connect rail lines from East and West at Promontory Point, Utah, 1869 Andrew J. Russell Photojournalism
Lewis Hine Immigrants at Ellis Island Photojournalism
Margaret Bourke-White First issue of Life Magazine
Hindenburg Disaster May 6, 1937 Sam Shere Photojournalism
Walker Evans Federally-funded Work Program
The Liberation of Buchenwald Photojournalism Margaret Bourke-White
Joe Rosenthal Raising the Flag at Mt. Suribachi - Iwo Jima February 23, 1945 Photojournalism
Dorothea Lange Migrant Mother - March, 1936
Alfred Eisentstaedt Photojournalism V-J Day in Time Square August 14, 1945
Edward Weston Photography as Art Pepper
Ansel Adams Moon and Halfdome - Yosemite Valley Photography as Art
Alfred Steiglitz Photography as Art Sun Rays - Paula - Berlin 1889 Georgia OKeeffe
Alfred Steiglitz Photography as Art Georgia OKeeffe: A Portrait - Hands and Grapes Grapes on White Dish - Dark Rim Georgia OKeeffe
Alfred Steiglitz Photography as Art Georgia OKeeffe: A Portrait - Neck The Dark Iris No. II Georgia OKeeffe
Gordon Parks Photography as Art American Gothic
Photography as Art James Van Der Zee
Photography as Art Arnold Newman Igor Stravinsky
W. Eugene Smith Into the Light Photography as Art
Innovations Tools & Techniques –Kodak camera –Leica 35 mm camera –Leica and others 35 mm electronic camera –Ektachrome color slide film –Kodachrome color slide film –Kodacolor color print film
Kodak Brownie Camera First mass produced camera available to the general public.
Leica The first 35mm electronic camera Small format film Electronic Shutter Quality Optical Lens
First Color Slide Film Kodak Ektachrome
Image Makers Famous faces
Marilyn Monroe 1954 Matthew Zimmerman Image Makers
Pablo Picasso Image Makers Arnold Newman
Edward Steicen Gloria Swanson Image Makers
The Kennedy Family
Annie Liebowitz The Blues Brothers Woopie Goldberg Bruce Springsteen Image Makers
Memories You Cant Forget
The Murder of Lee Harvey Oswald Robert Jackson Photojournalism
A young woman deformed by Mercury Pollution Japan W. Eugene Smith Photojournalism
From Laboratory to Art Montgomery Civil Rights Demonstration
From Laboratory to Art M.L. Kings I Have A Dream speech March on Washington
The Assassination of Robert Kennedy Bill Eppridge Photojournalism
Children fleeing an American Napalm strike Huynh Cong Nick Ut Photojournalism
Viewing Ourselves William Anders Apollo 8
Photojournalism Age of Revolution Fall of The Berlin Wall Farewell to Lenin - Bucharest, 1990 Alfred Alexandra Avakian
Fireman and child in Oklahoma City Charles H. Porter IV Photojournalism
Photography Today Where we stand now How the past influenced the present
Whats Next ? New Technology and Photographic Processes Ethical issues Whats in the Future
Edward Muybridge Zoophraxiscope - showing horse galloping Innovations
Strobe Flash Photography Harold Edgerton Technology
Jerry Ulesman Manipulated Images combining traditional images in the darkroom
Innovations David Hockney Pearblossom Highway - Photocollage- 1986
Innovations Robert Silver Photomosaic of Lincoln using Matthew Brady Images
O.J. Simpson L.A. Police Mug shotTime Magazine Cover Photo Illustration by Matt Mahurin Image Makers
Who knows what some people might do! Image Makers
To be continued...