Andre Kourtez – Meurdon = transformation. “Photography always transforms what it describes. Photography tells a story beyond the frame through intuition.

Fixing the shadows – photography invented 1839 – Louis de Gaye, Henry Fox Talbott. Goes further back than that – Camera obscura used by renaissance artists in the 15th century. The two inventors found a way to fix this camera obscura projection onto a surface. Daguerreotype – copper plate. Abdudlla Morell. Well befor 1839 it was known that materials had a sensitivity to light. Talbott started experimenting as he couldnt draw. He started using silver salts on paper and ‘moustraps’ to start creating negatives. His paper negatives represented the breakthrough of photography. Positives were created from these negatives and produce many copies. Louis – mirrored metal – daguerreotype, immediacy. Depth of field and tonal range and detail. Guild – burning the image into the dag. Talbott system still dominated as daguerreotypes could not be copied many times. Dags are fragile. Beginnings of photography were all about the struggle to see which process will prosper – sense of industry. Photography mid 19th century – industrial revolution – huge technological change. Photography was part of the invention of modernism. Speed. Motion studies – precursor of cinema – Moybridge. Stanford came to Moybridge to study if horses feet all came off the ground. Daguuera never saw photography as an artform. George Eastman – roll of film, kodak. Kodak camera created mass production for photography. You press the button well do the rest. Brownie – low cost more accessible. Vernacular – photography not for art. Pictorialism – artistic photography.