Snapshots & Pictorialism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Wignall Scavenger Hunt Due

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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In 1888, George Eastman introduces the "Kodak #1 " Hand-held Camera
Sold for $25, more than $450 today
Included Eastman Kodak's newly patented transparent roll film
 
By 1898, an estimated 1.5 million roll-film cameras had been sold to amateurs

http://www.hfmgv.org/exhibits/pic/1999/kodakadb.jpg
Kodak #1 Camera
http://www.thispublicaddress.com/depression/images/kodak.gif

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brownie Camera ad

Kodak Brownie Ad. 1900.

1900 first Brownie camera released and is sold for $1
150,000 cameras sold the first year

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Artist Unknown. The Kodak Girl. c. 1910.
Marien, Mary Warner.  Photography: A cultural History.  Second edition.  Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2006.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At a time when people were beginning to feel the alienating effects of modern urban living, the hand-held camera gave the individual a means of expression and a voice

Jacques-Henri Lartigue.  Bois De Boulogne.  c. 1890.
http://wolfeyebrows.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/jacques-henri-lartigue-3.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

circular snapshots

 

Beach photographer c. 1890
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalmediamuseum/2780165377/sizes/o/in/photostream/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Baby elephant at the zoo c. 1890
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalmediamuseum/2781021952/sizes/m/in/photostream/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

snapshot = to shoot instinctively without taking aim

 

Photo-Revolver de Poche c. 1882.
http://www.geh.org/fm/mees/htmlsrc/mE58300001_ful.html#topofimage

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Snapshot introduced new ways of seeing:

Unknown Photographer. Two Young Girls. c. 1890.
http://rpkphoto.smugmug.com/Photo-History-1/The-Snapshot-Century/10323935_
WVU6s/1/714942735_gP7eY#714942735_gP7eY-L-LB

Informal framing
Unbalanced compositions
Skewed angles
Strange perspectives
Banal subjects
Out-of-focus objects

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jacques-Henri Lartigue
1894 - 1988

 

Jacques-Henri Lartigue. My Hydro-glider with Propeller. 1904.
http://www.masters-of-photography.com/L/lartigue/lartigue_hydroglider_full.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jacques-Henri Lartigue.  My Cousin Bichonnade.  1905.
Marien, Mary Warner.  Photography: A cultural History.  Second edition.  Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2006.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Delaye Grand Prix

Jacques-Henri Lartigue. Delaye Grand Prix. 1912.
20th Century Photography Museum Ludwig Cologne. Taschen, Koln, 2005.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jacques - Henri Lartigue. The ZYX 24 Takes Off. 1910.
http://www.masters-of-photography.com/L/lartigue/lartigue_xyz24_full.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Naturalism
 
“As an aid to science, as a recorder, as a duplicator, photography has helped advance civilization.  [Yet] it has failed to occupy the place it may yet hold as a means for expressing original thought of a fine order.”
– J. Wells Champney, American artist

 
Claude Monet. Water Lilies (The Clouds). 1906.
Preble, Duane, Sarah Preble and Patrick Frank. Artforms. Seventh ed. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2002.

P.H. Emerson. Gathering Water Lilies. c. 1880s.
http://photo.net/photography-news-forum/00KnVN

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

P.H. Emerson.  Rowing Home the Schoof-Stuff.  1886.
http://getty.edu/art/exhibitions/emerson/shoof_stuff.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
John Constable. The White Horse. 1819.
Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History. Revised Second ed. Vol. 2. New York:
Prentice Hall Inc., and Harry N. Abrams Inc., 2005.
George Davison. The Onion Field. 1889.
http://www.geh.org/taschen/htmlsrc15/m196700800006_ful.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Heinrich Kuhn. Mary Warner and Hans Kuhn. 1865.
http://www.laurencemillergallery.com/images/kuhn_marshall.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alfred Stieglitz
1864 - 1946

 
Alfred Stieglitz. Winter on Fifth Avenue. 1892. (uncropped)
Alfred Stieglitz. Winter on Fifth Avenue. 1892. (cropped)
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/iVgn5E83znC6Ug9hSvlSPQ

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Camera Notes featured:

Alfred Stieglitz.  Hand of Man.  1902.  Photogravure.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mBLVB8K_Pis/TIKXwkqkiEI/AAAAAAAABJ8/bCFJbPeQk4E/s1600/800px-Stieglitz-Hand.jpg
Quality reproductions
Critical reviews
How to articles

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Pictorialism = early 20th century photographic movement which promoted the idea that art photography should emulate painting and encouraged the use of soft focus, special filters and lens coatings, heavy manipulation in the darkroom and complex printing processes
 
Characteristics of Pictorialist style:
Valued final image over subject matter
Soft focus
Simple compositions
Cropping of negative
Elaborate printing processes
photogravure = The process of printing from an intaglio plate, etched according to a photographic image.
William Fraser. A Wet Night, Columbus Circle. c. 1897 - 98.
http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Wet-Night-Columbus-Circle-New-York-1897-98-Posters_i4255771_.htm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1900 "The New School of American Photography" exhibition held in London and Paris

 

Ebony and Ivory

Fred Holland Day.  Ebony and Ivory.  1897.
http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/04/08/fred-holland-day/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"We have here merely the excrescences of a diseased imagination, which has been fostered by the ravings of a few luncatics." - The Photographic News

Nude Youth

Fred Holland Day.  Nude Youth with Laurel Leaf Standing Against Rocks.  c. 1907.
Marien, Mary Warner.  Photography: A cultural History.  Second edition.  Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2006.

 
 
Critics disliked Pictorialism because:
Lack of definition - often called the "fuzzy wuzzy school"
Asymmetrical compositions
Extreme contrasts

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fred Holland Day.Youth Sitting on a Stone.1907.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Day,_Fred_Holland_(1864-1933)_-_Youth_sitting_on_a_stone_(Nicola_Giancola),_1907.jpg

Fred Holland Day. Crucifixion. 1898.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Day,_Fred_Holland_(1864-1933)_-_The_crucifixion_-1898.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.nhpr.org/files/teticollection01.jpg
1901 Stieglitz left Camera Notes
 
1902 founded the Photo Secession
Invitation only group that included Alfred Stieglitz, Eduard Steichen, Frank Eugene, Gertrude Kaesebier, Joseph Keiley, John Bullcok, Eva Watson-Schutze
Consciously exculded themselves from traditional photographic practices that Stieglitz felt were inferior and old-fashioned
Wanted to force the art world to recognize photography
"as a distinctive medium of individual expression"
 
1903 established Camera Work as the Photo Secession's Journal
"As far as I'm concerned he took about five good pictures in his whole life, and that was only when he ventured out of himself. He had nothing to do with me or my pictures. Everything had to revolve around him. It was one of the silliest and most outrageous cults I've ever seen. I've never liked any persons or schools that closed other people out." - Berenice Abbott in Art News, January 1981