“New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape” was a pioneering exhibition of existing landscape photography grasped at the George Eastman House’s International Museum of Photography from October 1975 to February 1976. The show, curated by William Jenkins, had a unending impact on beautiful and abstract approaches to American landscape photography
Topography was both a reflection of the progressively suburbanised world about them, and a reaction to the dictatorship of idealised landscape photography that elevated the natural and the basic.
New Topographics photography questioned the supposed differentiation between cultural and open landscapes. In doing so, the New Topographics photographers formally refer to and ironize past countenances of “pristine” wilderness
A critical juncture in the history of photography, the 1975 exhibition New Topographics signalled a radical shift outside limits traditional descriptions of landscape.
Romanticism is the ideals and feelings which are romantic over than realistic. Romantics believed in the natural goodness in humans. It involved breaking with the past, and consciously moving away from the ideas and traditions of the Enlightenment.
Eugène Delacroix: Liberty Leading the People
The Sublime
The theory of sublime art was put forward by Edmund Burke in A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful published in 1757. The term especially refers to a greatness beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement, or imitation.
J. M. W. Turner: Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth
In aesthetics, the sublime is the quality of greatness, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical, aesthetic, spiritual, or artistic.
Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke was an Irish-British statesman, economist, and philosopher. Born in Dublin, Burke served as a member of Parliament between 1766 and 1794 in the House of Commons of Great Britain with the Whig Party.
Burke argued against the idea of abstract, metaphysical rights of humans and instead advocated national.
Ansel Easton Adams was an American landscape photographer and eco-activist known for his monochrome images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an association of
photographers advocating “pure” photography which favoured sharp focus and the use of the full tonal range of a photograph.
Ansel Adams, The Tetons and Snake River
One of the most crucial legacies of Adams is the way in that his photographs contributed to the American preservation movement. His technical knowledge and the undeniable beauty of welcome work paved the habit for photography to be shown beside traditional portrait and portraiture in national galleries.
Adams’s first photographs were published in 1921, and Best’s Studio began selling his Yosemite prints the next year. In 1927, Adams began working with Albert M. Bender, a San Francisco insurance magnate and arts patron. Between 1929 and 1942, Adams’s work matured, and he became more established. The 1930s were a particularly experimental and productive time for him.
Formalism specifies the critical position that the most main aspect of a art object is its form – the way it is fashioned and its purely ocular aspects – alternatively its narrative content or its friendship to the visible experience.
The visual language shown on a fine arts work implies a pictorial ideas media in telling a lie or a particular event.
Continuous lighting is lighting that’s always on. Its used mostly in cinematography and videography, photographers also use it to determine how the shot will come out.
Flash Lighting
Flash lighting is where the lights flash (1/200 to 1/1000 of a second) when the photographer takes a photo. You can use a flash to get rid of shadows from your photo. You can also use flash and a slow shutter speed when photographing a moving subject.
Key Light is the primary source of light in a scene. The Key light is most often placed in front of your subject, at an angle, and thus illuminates one section of your subject.
Key light would be the lightest part of the image
Reflected light is light that reflects off the subject. Regardless of the light source, light is altered by whatever it reflects off.
Backlight photography emphasizes the depth behind the subject and gives images a greater sense of place. Backlighting can produce a dramatic contrast between the subject and the background.
the light in this photo is coming from behind the subject giving the illusion of the subject being a silhouette.
A photomontage is a collage constructed from photographs.
Historically, the technique has been used to make political statements and gained popularity in the early 20th century (World War 1-World War 2)
Artists such as Raoul Haussman , Hannah Hoch, John Heartfield employed cut-n-paste techniques as a form of propaganda…as did Soviet artists like Aleksander Rodchenko and El Lissitsky
Photomontage has its roots in Dadaism…which is closely related to Surrrealism
Still life photography is taking pictures of objects that are arranged in a way that gives it narrative, still life photography is based on the Latin ideology Memento Mori (remember death). experiencing still life photography gives opportunities to use lighting, composition, textures in your photography.
Vanitas is art showing the shortness of life the futility of pleasure, and the certainty of death. Best known of vanitas still life art.
Memento Mori is an artistic or symbolic trope acting as a reminder of the inevitability of death, Memento Mori originated in ancient Rome where slaves used to accompany generals in victory parades and whisper Memento Mori to remind them of their mortality.
Marion Buccella – finding balance
Still life art has existed since the 17th century to modern day, but in the 19th century, artists adopted still life photography.
Richard Kuiper
Richard Kuiper is a still life photographer who uses luxury items and utensils to show off their wealth, for example he uses: shells from the East Indies, priceless glassware from Venice, porcelain from China, silver and gold from Antwerp.
Aperture is the adjustable lens opening that controls the amount of light allowed into the camera. Aperture is used whether you want the background or foreground in focus.
for example if the aperture was f32 the lens would not let a lot of light in because of the small lens this would mean the foreground and background would be in focus, if the aperture was f1.4 the lens would let a lot of light in because of a wider lens this would mean the foreground is in focus but not the background.
Depth of field
Depth of field is the distance between the nearest and furthest elements in a scene.
Photography is the art of recording, capturing and reproducing images. It has evolved over time with new techniques and equipment being developed to improve the quality of photographs. Photography can be done using a camera, digital cameras or even a mobile phone. The most common type of photography is still photography which involves taking pictures without moving the camera while video photography involves moving the camera while shooting videos.
What are some types of Photography?
There are many different types of photography such as landscape, portrait, macro (close up), sports, wildlife and street photography for example.
Using a camera.
There are a multitude of ways to take a good photo, but most professional photographers edit the camera’s setting such as aperture and shutter speed. Aperture is the adjustable lens opening that controls the amount of light allowed into the camera. Aperture is used whether you want the background or foreground in focus. Shutter Speed is the speed on which the camera’s shutter closes, a fast shutter means the photo is more focused and has a shorter exposure a longer shutter means the photo has a long exposure and is more blurry.
History of Photography.
Photography means drawing with light. It come from Greek words phos, meaning light, and graphê meaning drawing or writing. The first photograph was taken by French scientist Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1826 at his family’s country home, the title being ‘View from the Window at Le Gras’ .
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce – View from the Window at Le Gras – 1826
The first sign of photography was in 1717 where Johann Heinrich Schulze captured cut-out letters on a bottle of a light-sensitive slurry, but he never thought about making the result durable. In 1800 Thomas Wegwood, who was unsuccessful at capturing images in a permanent form, his tests did produce detailed photograms – but Wegwood and his associate found no way to fix these images. A photogram is a photographic image made without a camera by placing objects directly onto the surface of a light-sensitive material such as photographic paper and then exposing it to light, this was how the first fil camera’s where made.
