The Invention Of The Camera

Early Landscape photography used the same principles as painters in order to create pieces of art. Before the 18th Century, artists used landscapes as backdrops and as a frame for the principal subject. Towards the later part of the century, however, artists such as Nicolas Poussin started to romanticize the environment, instead using it as a principle subject in paintings.

Throughout history newspapers have been dominant. They have informed citizens about events taking place throughout the world and allowed us to see the world in many different ways. The emergence of photography in the 1920s sparked the invention of photojournalism. This created; credibility, new celebrities, and additional corporate competition.

Sense the invention of the camera in 1826 photography has been used to document everything from family portraits, social injustice, sporting events, world news, expressions of joy and sorrow, and hundreds of monumental moments. The camera has given man the power to reveal the truth visually. Throughout history photographs have made enormous impacts on social consciousness and ultimately shaped public opinion on many pressing issues in society. Although photography is often considered a casual pastime, the invention of the camera has contributed to many aspects of history, science, and other important pieces of todays world.

The photograph is a very powerful medium. The French painter Paul Delaroche exclaimed upon seeing an early photograph “from now on, painting is dead!” (Sayre, 2000). Many critics did not take photography seriously as a legitimate art form until the 20th century. With the

Key changes observed in the artwork of the time included the used of warmer color tones and portraits, such as the one discussed in our forum, featured women in a more relaxed position. These modifications reflected the changing times as many people began to branch out from social norms and make their own statement. William Cullen Bryant

Our memories often time embellish the memories we once had of such great people, places, times, and etc. We live these times up to standard that makes us reminisce, hurt, contemplate and so much more. The power of a photograph has been described to have worth a thousand words, metaphorically meaning of course, that what an image can capture in one instance, something that may not ever be captured through words. For too many centuries we have been without, what many of us now take for granted, the photograph. What we capture in a picture, has much more value than we often time see in our commercials, people, places, they tell a story to the ignorant, paint a picture for blind, give the deaf something to listen to, and so much more.

These transcripts taught the designers unique techniques for painting and how to obtain a desired effect through simple brush strokes. Carefully adhering to these lost principles, painters rediscovered the process of more lifelike imagery, causing many portraits to seem almost real. Many times, these realistic pictures would be commissioned by the wealthy elite as a symbol of status and success. Famous examples of portraits include Mona Lisa, Arnolfini Wedding, and the Ambassadors. The Renaissance exact and realistic style is most accurately portrayed through the knowledge of classical documents and beautiful

Earlier this semester, I learned that pictures of people at one point were not very common. Typically, to have a portrait painted by a professional artist, someone had to be rich or of much importance. Before reading the information on the wall beside Queen Charlotte’s portrait, I was not aware that she was the Queen, but I still inferred from first glance that she was an important figure due to the size of the portrait and the money it would have taken to create the portrait. The picture was probably created with the purpose of representing status while the Queen was living, but it most likely was meant to also serve as a piece for commemoration in order to remember her after her

In the 1800s, people wanted better documentation. Paintings and drawings took a long time to make and were considered biased and unreal. Cameras offered a more exact look at a moment in time. Many were working on inventing a camera that could produce lasting photos, however, most early photos didn’t last due to the light exposure needed when viewing a photo. There were many formats and processes used in the 1800s, all improving on the last one. In the 1800s, there were five major photographic formats; the Daguerreotype, Ambrotype, Tintype, Carte de Visite, and Cabinet Card.

I agree with Walton that there is such a difference between what viewers see in photographs and paintings. When someone looks at a photograph of a person, they are seeing that person in a fixed way, a real representation. However, a painting of a person, even if not intended, is not going to be as clear and explicit as a

The level to which a portrait is truly a likeness of its subject is also worth studying as each artist displays the sitter with varying degrees of resemblance. The artist might perfect any unattractive qualities of the subject. Often, an artist will use other methods to depict reality in a somewhat distorted manner, such as overemphasizing features of a subject’s face, or showing only part of a subject in the portrait. Regardless of such variations in reliability as far as accuracy is concerned, portraits provide an important record of the appearance of people. Not only are those who are important in history represented, however, but also individuals who are, often, nameless. There is no replacement for such records, and, thus, portraits are invaluable in this way,

Art critic Robert Hughes once said, “People inscribe their histories, beliefs, attitudes, desires and dreams in the images they make.” When discussing the mediums of photography and cinema, this belief of Hughes is not very hard to process and understand. Images, whether they be still or moving, can transform their audiences to places they have either never been before or which they long to return to. Images have been transporting audiences for centuries thanks to both the mediums of photography and cinema and together they gone through many changes and developments. When careful consideration is given to these two mediums, it is acceptable to say that they will forever be intertwined, and that they have been interrelated forms of

This picture was chosen for its background. The background adds detail so that the onlooker can create an idea of who this person might be. While the subject is still the main focus of the portrait the background is just as important as the subject because it suggests a culture that the viewer can make inferences about.

The name "Photography" comes from the Greek words for light and writing. Sir John Herschel, was the first to use the term photography in 1839, when he managed to fix images using hyposulphite of soda. He described photography as "The application of the chemical rays to the purpose of pictorial representation". Herschel also coined the terms "negative", "positive" and "snapshot".

Portraits to me are art in a different sense. Some of my favorite portraits are by Martin Waugh. It is what he calls Liquid Sculpture. He uses high speed photography to capture drops of liquid as the splash into lakes and other bodies of water. To me there is just something so soothing about his work. It is amazing how a tiny drop of liquid can create such a beautiful work of art. His work impresses me, because I never really thought of liquid as art before I saw one of his photos.