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History of photography (part 3):photography as art
Marc LevoyComputer Science DepartmentStanford University
CS 178, Spring 2010
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Outline
! photography as an aid to artists
! genres• allegory• still life
! Naturalism
! Pictorialism
! profile: Alfred Stieglitz
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Photography as an artistic medium
3William Talbot, The Open Door, 1843
(Rosenblum)
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Photography as an aid to artists
4Eugène Durieu, Figure Study, 1853
Eugène Delacroix, Dante and Virgil in Hell, 1822
• Delacroix collaborated with Durieu on these figure studies
(Rosenblum)
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Photography as an aid to artists
5Thomas Eakins’s students, 1883
Thomas Eakins, The Swimming Hole, 1883
(Rosenblum)
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Photography as an aid to artists
6Maxfield Parrish, illustration for Life, 1923
Kitty Owen (granddaughter of William Jennings Bryan)
(Ludwig)
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Planning a photograph
7 Henry Peach Robinson, Carrolling, 1887
pre-production sketch
photograph
(Newhall)
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Photography struggles for respect
8Gaspard Tournachon (“Nadar”), from Le Journal Amusant, 1857
“Photography asking for just a little place in the exhibition of fine arts.”
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Genres
! allegory
! still life
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Thomas Cole, The Voyage of Life: Childhood, 1840
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Thomas Cole, The Voyage of Life: Youth, 1840
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Thomas Cole, The Voyage of Life: Manhood, 1840
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Thomas Cole, The Voyage of Life: Old Age, 1840
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Allegorical collage
14Oscar Rejlander, Two Ways of Life, 1857
• huge print (31” wide) • composite of 30 negatives• widely denounced as mechanical• made the artist rich and famous
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One-frame movie
15Henry Peach Robinson, Fading Away, 1858
• perfectly healthy 14-year old girl • photograph as theatrical narrative • 5 differently exposed negatives, hence early example of HDR!
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The Dutch still life
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Willem Claesz Heda, Still Life with Oysters, Rum Glass, and Silver Cup, 1634
• balanced composition • variety of textures• specular highlights (white if glass, colored if metal)• interreflections• reflected windows
(Gardner)
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Vanitas
17Willem Claesz Heda, Still Life - Vanitas, 1628
• intended to symbolize the transience of life, the futility of pleasure, and the certainty of death• common symbols are a skull, clock or candle, pipes for blowing bubbles, leaning glass, rotting fruit
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Memento mori (“Be mindful of death”)
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Caravaggio, St. Jerome, 1606
Lawrence Olivier in Hamlet, 1948,“Alas, poor Yorick!
I knew him, Horatio.”
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Hans Holbein,The Ambassadors,1533
• anamorphic image of skull
• to view without distortion, stand near lower-left corner of painting
• salvation is represented by crucifix in upper-left corner
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Photographic still life
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Hermann Krone, Still Lifeof the Washerwoman, 1853
(Rosenblum)
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Charles Aubry,Leaves, 1864
(Rosenblum)
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Dead nature
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Adolphe Braun, Still Lifewith Deer and Wildfowl, 1865
(Rosenblum)
(Rosenblum)
Jean-Baptiste Oudry, Hare, Sheldrake,Bottles, Bread and Cheese, 1742
(Baxendall)
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Genres: still life
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Adolphe Braun, Still Lifewith Deer and Wildfowl, 1865
Jean-Baptiste Oudry, Le Pâté, 1743(at the S.F. Palace of Legion of Honor)
(Rosenblum)
(Rosenblum)
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Ansel Adams,Still Life, 1932
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Naturalism
25 Frank Sutcliffe, Water Rats, 1886
(Rosenblum)
• reaction against the artificiality of genre photographs
• blend of Romanticism, lyricism, and early Impressionism
• importance of pose, camera vantage point, and atmosphere
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Naturalism
26 Frank Sutcliffe, Water Rats, 1886
George Caleb Bingham, Fur Traders Descending the Missouri, 1845
(Rosenblum)
(Honour)
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27 Lidell Sawyer, In the Twilight, 1888
(Rosenblum)
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Naturalism
28 Lidell Sawyer, In the Twilight, 1888
Édouard Manet, Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe, 1863
(Rosenblum)
(Gardner)
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Pictorialism
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• photography needed to emulate the art of painting
• extreme manipulation of the photograph
• photographic Impressionism
John Dudley Johnston,Liverpool - An Impression, 1906
(Rosenblum)
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Pictorialism
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• extreme manipulation of the photograph
• photographic Impressionism
John Dudley Johnston,Liverpool - An Impression, 1906
(Rosenblum)
Claude Monet, The Thames and the Houses of Parliament, 1871
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James Craig Annan, A Black Canal, 1894
(Rosenblum)
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Pictorialism
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James Craig Annan, A Black Canal, 1894
(Rosenblum)
Claude Monet, La Grenouillère (The Frog Pond), 1869
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E.J. Constant Puyo, Summer, 1903
(Rosenblum)
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Pictorialism
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E.J. Constant Puyo, Summer, 1903
(Rosenblum)
Claude Monet, Poppy Field near Vétheuil, 1879
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Animating pictures[Chuang SIGGRAPH 2005]
35 Claude Monet, Bridge at Argenteuil, 1874
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Animating pictures[Chuang SIGGRAPH 2005]
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Alfred Stieglitz (1864 - 1946)
! began as a Pictorialist
! became a Realist as he addressed social themes, then a Modernist as he photographed urban landscapes
! photographed (and married) painter Georgia O’Keeffe
! first of the “heroic age” ofartist photographers
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Sun’s Rays - Paula, Berlin, 1889
(Rosenblum)
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Venetian Canal,1897
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Miss Thompson, 1907 (collaboration with Clarence White)
Leonardo, Mona Lisa (detail), 1503-1519example of sfumato
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The Steerage, 1907
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From the Shelton Westward, New York, 1931
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Slide credits! Newhall, B., The History of Photography, Little, Brown & Co., 1982.
! Rosenblum, N., A World History of Photography (4th ed.), Abbeville Press, 2007.
! Ludwig, C., Maxfield Parrish, Watson-Guptill, 1973.
! Baxandall, M., Shadows and Enlightenment, Yale University Press, 1995.
! Tanser and Kleiner, Gardner’s Art Through the Ages (10th ed.), Harcourt Brace, 1996.
! Honour and Fleming, The Visual Arts: A History (4th ed.), Harry Abrams, 1995.
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