CHRONOPHOTOGRAPHY
Etienne-Jules Marey, Schenkel, High Jump, 1886
A scientist, physiologist seeking concrete/measurable facts to analyze human/animal movement
A mechanical device attached the subject to a wire with a pen. Subject’s movement activated the pen to draw on paper how the subject moved.
Quest: to picture a body’s “all at oneness” to display all moving parts of the body
Social Realist Painting vs. Photography
Peter Henry Emerson, , Furze-Cutting on the Suffolk Common, 1886
Gustave Courbet, The Stone Breakers, 1849-50
Photojournalism
Jacob A. Riis, 5 Cents a Spot (How the Other Half Lives), 1890. A journalist - used photography to better convey conditions of
immigrants
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87SCTEsIufY
Muckracking:Exposing political/social corruption to the public.
Communicating news with photographs instead of text
Flash powder
Social Reform
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLWM6M8__X4
Lewis W. Hine, Steelworker, 85 Stories up (left – looking north to Central Park/right – above Rockefeller Centre), 1931.
A sociologist- used photography to reveal dismal labour conditions and how people became insignificant in the urban/city landscape
Making changes in society and its perception
Ethnography
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXRwEenveRI
A ‘scientific’/visual description of individuals/cultures/peoples
Photographers took photos according to their own view and controlled the Other’s visual identity
Edward S. Curtis, Bear Bull-Blackfoot, 1926.
A self-taught photographer- documented Native Americans in a non-object/subject way (he used a ‘white, European culture filter’ that made natives appear romantic, pictorial, soft-focused, nostalgic, not assimilated, emotional & used props to stage scenes/people)
Ethnography as Social ConsciousnessA ‘scientific’/visual description of
individuals/cultures/peoples
Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, 1936 (left) & White Angel Breadline, 1931 (right)
A photographer – photographed people impacted by WW1 during The Great Depression who became an “Other.” Her work called attention to poverty and directed aid to those in desperate need.
Plane Crash Victim
Avatar
Astronaut hovering in space
Dog shoots his own #selfie
“I woke up like this…”
Earliest #Selfies?Van Gogh – proto #selfie? (19th C)
Parmigianino’s – Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror (16th C) – the earliest #selfie?
Is the #selfie
making us all narcissistic? Or are these today’s self-portraits?
Infographic: http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/selfie-syndrome_b52337
Portraiture VS. Narcissism