photography mas 229 presentation

8/14/2019 Photography MAS 229 Presentation

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Photography


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The first photograph ever - 1826

View from the Window at Gras

By: Joseph Nicphore Nipce


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The Daguerreotype

The father of a dead girl holds her

body in his arms. The mourningpicture was a common use for the

daguerreotype.


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The first nude photograph ever -

1839


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I always thought of photography as a

naughty thing to do that was one of myfavourite things about it. Diane Arbus

(Sontag, pp 150)


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1888: First Kodak camera


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You press the button, we do the rest


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The first digital camera prototype -

1975


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The importance of capturing a moment in time


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Digitization

Manipulation


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(Sontag, 1977: 3)

To collect photographs is to collect

the world


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Mallarm said that everything in the worldexists in order to end in a book


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Today, everything exists to end in aphotograph. (Sontag, 1977: 156)

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