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The Stereoscope
Double vision
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Double vision
The Stereoscope
1851
1940
Cartes de Visite
Trading facesTrading faces
Carte-de-visite:
Thumb-sized portraits popular during the
1860’s. People often collected them in albums.
Not having a carte was like not having a
Facebook page!
Civil War
A new realismA new realism
Mathew Brady,
the “Father of
Documentary
Photography,”
photographed the
Civil War.Mathew Brady Magazine in Battery Rodgers 1863
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Photography began to re-mold the public’s understanding of
war and conflict. Brady “brought the bodies of the dead to
the doorsteps of civilians.” (New York Times)
Mathew Brady Confederate Dead, Fredericksburg
Documentary Expression
& Social Reform& Social Reform
Observing with feeling
Jacob Riis, “The Baby’s Playground," circa 1890
Although he considered himself a writer rather than a photographer,
the photos in Jacob Riis’ bestseller How the Other Half Lives gave
momentum to a sanitary reform movement and resulted in New York
State’s Tenement House Act of 1901.
Jacob Riis, “Five Cents a Spot," 1889
Jacob Riis, “Knee-pants at Forty-Five Cents a Dozen -- a Ludlow
Street Sweater's Shop," 1890
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Lewis Hine Girl Worker 1908
Hine’s pictures of child factory workers resulted in
the creation of new labor laws to protect children.
He
photographed
his subjects
in a way that
left their
dignity
intact.intact.
Dorothea Lange Migrant Mother, Nipomo CA 1936
Dorothea Lange
photographed
displaced and
relocated farm
workers during the
Great Depression.
She was later hired
by the State of
Dorothea Lange 18-year old Mother From Oklahoma, now a California Migrant
by the State of
California and the
Federal government
as a documentary
photographer.
Dorothea Lange Migratory Workers from Oklahoma Washing in Desert Hot Springs
Evidence
The camera as The camera as
objective retina
Eadweard Muybridge The Horse in Motion 1878
Moving Pictures
Creating the illusion Creating the illusion
of motion
Zoopraxiscope: an early device
for displaying motion pictures.
Created by Eadweard Muybridge.
In the early
1900’s, Frank and
Lillian Gilbreth
used photography
to study time and to study time and
motion,
increasing
industrial
efficiency.
Astronomy would be
unimaginable
without the use of
telescope
photography.
Pictorialism
Camerawork as artworkCamerawork as artwork
Oscar Rejlander Pensive Young Girl Posing on Box 1860
Oscar Rejlander Young Woman, Expression of Sorrow 1860
Pictorialists:
A group of photographers
who believed that a
photograph should look as photograph should look as
much like a painting as
possible.
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Henry Peach Robinson When the Day’s Work is Done 1877
Pictorialism
promised
“room for
artistic
expression...”
Robert Demachy Behind the Scenes 1904
Edgar Degas Dancers at the Bar 1877
…but some people
made fun of Pictorialist
photographs by calling
them “fuzzygraphs.”
John Dudley Johnston Liverpool – An Impression 1906
The Brownie
Photography for everyonePhotography for everyone
1888
Kodak invents roll
film cameras
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film cameras
Kodak Brownie camera
Kodak Brownie camera advertisement
Photograph taken with a Kodak Brownie camera
Postcards
Wish you were hereWish you were here
In 1908
677,777,798 post cards were mailed in the U.S.
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Kodachrome
Slideshow maniaSlideshow mania
Kodachrome Basin State Park, Utah