1. Photography/PhotoJournalism
MIT2000
Photography/PhotoJournalism
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2. Early Photography Daguerreotype, 1839 Louis Daguerre unique image
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3. Wet Plate Collodion wet plate collodion process, 1850s-
multiple prints from single glass negative
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4. Dry Plate Collodion Process
No More Portable Darkrooms
George Dawson, “Geological Survey of Canada”
Mobility
Photos of Remote areas
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5. Portraiture Mathew Brady 1840s -1870s Portraiture Nationalism
Citizenship
Character
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6. Democratic Portraiture
Painted portraits
Wealthy/luxury
Photographic portrait
“emblem of democracy”
Individual as Coherent Self
Symbol of Inner Self
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7. The Living Dead Photo as keepsake of deceased “Sleeping Subject”
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8. Powerful Photographs
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9. Seeing, Believing: War Documentary
Civil War,
M. Brady
A. Gardner/T. O’Sullivan
Horror of War
Orchestrated Realism
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10. Romantic/Documentary Depiction
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11. Social Documentary Jacob Riis Affect Social Change Reform Movement
“How the Other Half Lives”, 1890
Affect Social Change
Reform Movement
Cultural “Other”
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12. Kodak Camera, 1888 George Eastman
hand-held, point-and-shoot box camera
Portability/Affordability
Brownie camera ($1) early 1900s
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13. Kodak Camera, 1888 amateur users Autobiographical record Nostalgia
Time Machine/Time Bias?
Nostalgia
(Don Draper/”Mad Men”)
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14. 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
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15. 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
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16. Photo-Journalism Flash photography, 1887
Camera improvements (Kodak); snap-shot camera, fast drying gelatin plate,
Movement/action photography
Photo-journalist: wars, disasters, public events
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17. Photo-Journalism Wirephoto, 1921 Flash bulbs, late 1920s
Photo Agencies
Bain’s News Picture Service
Veracity/immediacy
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18. Photography’s Rapid Uptake
Mechanical Process
Self-Representation
Individual/familial
Realism/Objectivity and Point-of-View Subjectivity
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