Download - Louis Daguerre, 1830’s-1850

Louis Daguerre, 1830’s-1850

Partners with Niepce• Daguerreotype• – photographic plates• Processing

– 30 minutes– One photograph

Nadar -

Sarah

Bernhardt

1859

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nadar-Self-Portrait.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Brooklyn_Museum_-_Nadar_%C3%89levant_la_Photographie_%C3%A0_la_Hauteur_de_l%27Art_-_Honor%C3%A9_Daumier.jpg

Matthew Brady

photographs

U. S. Civil War, 1860’s

photojournalism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mathew_Brady_1875_cropped.jpg

• Julia Margaret Cameron• 1860’s

• Portraits + literary characters

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sadness,_by_Julia_Margaret_Cameron.jpg

Alfred StieglitzThe Steerage

1907

Elevates photography to

fine arts

Studio 291 in N. Y.

Edward Weston

Toward

Abstraction

1920’s

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Weston1923.jpg

Ansel Adams

Moon and Half Dome1966

American

landscapes

Dorothea Lange

Migrant Mother1936

DocumentaryPhotography

Social Commentary

• Cindy Sherman• Untitled Film Stills Series• Currently working• Conceptual• Political• Social• Postmodern