Photography by genre

1. Discuss the impact of photography on the nineteenth-century landscape. How did it affect painting? What were the political implications of the medium? Use examples to support your essay. Landscape painting was a particularly effective vehicle for allegory because it allowed artists to make fictional subjects appear normal, conditioned, acceptable, or destined. Art was not just about the landscape, it actually allowed the spirit of the painter to come alive in their work. The allegory

Genre is known to change discourse by the format the information is presented to the audience (Varela, 2008). It is also a category of composition that is characterized by a particular style, form or content as dictate by Webster Third Dictionary. However Trosborg (n.d) stated that for the past decade, genre identification, classification and description have been scholarly concern. Certain scholars dictate that genre is defined primarily around its basic external criteria such as journals and newspaper

effect of photography on painting in the nineteenth century? The photograph was developed in 1839 simultaneously in England and France by Talbot and Daguerre. That is the technique of chemically fixing of an image produced by exposure to rays of sun. William Fox Talbot was an English scholar and scientist who developed the negative and positive process. He used sensitive paper soaked in sodium hyposulphite called calotype. This became the basis for all subsequent photography. Photography joined the

Modern Era, 1800-1945. Indicate specific ways in which these changed the form and/or content, themes, purposes/functions of art, and the lives of artists. Photography Light bulbs Use of metal in construction There have been many inventions since the 19th century that has been incorporated in the artistic realm. Photography has created a new genre of art available to people. This invention allows people to see an image as it was meant to be which may have been something that could only be seen in

naturally depicted. In numerous cultures, human forms are found on functional everyday objects, illustrated in decorative ways, used for religious and ritual purposes, or produced to reinforce notions of the ideal form, but is it the same for a photography? According to Elizabeth Opalenik, a photographic artist and a Juror of an exhibition named the Human Form, explains the simplicity but at the same time complicity of the body in art. Viewing the human body photographed in abstraction is an innately

July 9th, 1830, was a British photographer and prominent author on photography. Known as “the King of Photographic Picture Making,” he began his life’s work as a painter but would become one of the most influential photographers of the late 19th century. He was a prolific advocate for photography as an art form and is well known for his role in “pictorialism,” which, according to Encyclopedia Britannica, is “an approach to photography that emphasizes beauty of subject matter, tonality, and composition

SLIDE 1 This reading studies the thought of truth in landscape photography, and how this concept may influence the way people then relate to and interact with a photograph. There are two types of representation within a single image. The story that the image may represent may be distorted by the background, education, norms and morals of the viewer. Each person will view an image differently. It is up to the photographer to show how clear a photograph can be. The second presentation is what the image

Lothar Fischer, born in 1933 in Germersheim and died in 2004 in Baierbrunn, was a renowned German sculptor. The artist worked both in traditional techniques and materials, as bronze or plaster, at the same time exploring the border between painting and sculpture by producing evocative reliefs and works in mixed media. Fischer received his education from the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he studied under Heinrich Kirchner (1953-8). There he initiated the artistic group SPUR (1957), together

for inspirations and many of them had to hide their artwork because Picasso would copy the idea and make it look better. Steve Jobs, Igor Stravinsky, and Picasso they all did it. As we say there is no need to reinvent the wheel. For many years photography was not recognized as high art because there was no artist hand visible in the final image. It was mechanical so even women could do it, and the middle class could afford it as well. There was nothing prestigious about it simple click, click. However

At a time when women were looked upon as being homemakers, wives, mothers and such the late 1850's presented a change in pace for one woman in specific. Photography was discovered in 1826 and soon after the phenomenon of photography was being experimented with and in turn brought new and different ways of photo taking not only as documenting real time, but also conceptualizing a scene in which an image would be taken. Julia Margaret Cameron will forever be recorded in the history books as one of