Video 1
- Makes you ask questions-
- Who?
- When?
- Why?
- How?
- What?
- Frames around image- what is beyond the photo frame
- Expresses a variety of emotions-
- Happiness
- Wonder
- Disappointment
- Turning the ordinary into the extraordinary
- Photography is fast and instantaneous moment which will never be repeated or happen the same again.
Video 2
- Darkness to see light
- Lens is upside down
- 1893
- Camera obscura– optical phenomenon
- Twice as natural
- Outside world pours in- dark room filled with a small cut out for light to come in, around an hour and image from outside if formed on e.g. wall.
- Box camera- all natural deep and primitive, using old historical technology- not new and upcoming tech.
Video 3
- Henry Fox Talbert– PAPER NEGATIVE was an English scientist, inventor, and photography pioneer who invented the salted paper and calotype processes
- Moment in time, fixed into place
- Images made when exposed to light, but then went balck
- Transient and momentary so was not the stronger product.
- Was easily distributed and easy to produce.
- On the edge of being present- looks not quite alive.
- Romanticism
- Photos were captured using different light sensitive chemicals and salts e.g. silver nitrate
- Louis Daguerre – EPONYMOUS DAGUERREOTYPE was a French artist and photographer, recognized for his invention of the dagurreotype process of photography. He became known as one of the fathers of photography.
- Shiny top, easily smudged. Only get one.
- Expensive and hard to distribute
