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Portraits
(Important salons, questions) |
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Southworth & Hawes (Boston)
Hill & Adamson (Scotland)
Questions- is it the type of person or the person that's better?
Nadar (Paris) |
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Carte de Visite
& Disderi |
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By Adolphe Disderi in 1854
Paper images on cardboard & multiple images on single glass plates.
"Greenbacks of civilization"
Disderi also did composites- dancer's legs, members of gov't |
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Pierre Louis Pierson
& Contess de Castiglione |
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Pieree Louis Pierson - photographer
Contess de Castiglione - subject
She married Italian diplomat, mistress to Leader of Savoy, Emperor of Paris.
Beauty & Vanity! Most beautiful, ever.
Handcolored photos, dressed up, mirrors, holding mask |
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| Countess de Castiglione, by Pierre Louis Pierson |
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Vengance!
Countess de Castiglione, by Pierson. |
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Real name: Gaspard
Son of a printer. Journalist, charichiture artist.
Worked together with brother Adrian, but got into a fight and won the lawsuit for the name "Nadar"
Father of arial ballooning!
Portraits, sewers, arial photography |
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Sarah Bernhart - sensual, lighting, bulk of fabric makes her look delicate, facial expression, pyramid!
Nadar's style: negative space, shadows, tones, pyramid structure, softening, angle of face
Timeline: Casual > Props, dramatic > rigid, showy.
Nadar is less and less involved as time goes by.
Chevruel Interview- photojournalistic |
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Julia Margaret Cameron, Herschel ('fixer' 'hypo' 'photography')
Raised in India, moved to England. Facinated with photography. "Soft" = blurrish.
Subjects- Longfellow, Tennyson, family
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Pomona - Alice Lidell
Julia Margaret Cameron allegorical portraits (1870s) |
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Idyll's of the King
Julia Margaret Cameron |
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Thomas Eakins, The Gross Clinic
Honoring Dr. Gross, but seen as too realistic. |
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The Swimmers, Thomas Eakins
SYNTHESIS OF PAINTING & PHOTO |
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Lady Clemtina Haywarden, 1863
Portraits of children |
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General thinking on Photo as Art
Boudelaire |
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"If photography can supplement art, it will soon corrupt it"
Nadar makes fun of realist painters
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| Rejlander, "Head of John the Baptist" |
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Henry Peach Robinson, "Fading Away" - 5 negs
1815-1901, grew up in Medieval ish setting, loved past, Romantic
Lessons from Diamond in Calotypes & then Colodian & Ambrotypes
Got to know Rejlander, claimed he also dvlpt combo printing
Critics: "Patchwork." :(
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Henry Peach Robinson, "Day's Work is Done" 1877
expressive, items in foreground in focus, diagonal
Old man gave him the story. |
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| 1870s reaction to photography - we are more real. You see with emotions too. Degas. |
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