Art Appreciation Chapter 13 The Camera Arts

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Art AppreciationChapter 13 The Camera Arts

• Ansel Adams 1902-1984Monolith, The Face of Half
  Dome
• Yosemite National Park, 1927

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• Warning some images may be troubling...

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What is this?

• Addl. Image Eddie Adams, Brigadier Gen. Nguygen
  Ngoc Loan summarily executing the suspected
  leader of a Vietcong commando unit, Saigon, South
  Vietnam, Feb. 1, 1968

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• It is a photograph!

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Photography is the most realistic media, but it
is not real.
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• Do you think T.V. and movies are the true arts of
  our time?

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• What is a camera obscura?

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•      Fig. 363 Camera Obscura
• dark room - a tracing device, 16th century
  (first accounts)
• Show Davids oatmeal box pinhole camera?

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from www.drawingpower.org.uk/Publicity2004.htm
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• When, and where, was photography invented?

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Niépce made the first photo in 1826 (it is in the
UT at Austin Library)

• A Frenchman named Joseph Nicéphore Niépce made
  the picture in 1826, using a sheet of pewter
  coated with bitumen of Judea (a lovely name for
  what is in fact a kind of asphalt). The metal was
  placed inside a camera obscura, which Niépce
  pointed out the window of his workroom and
  exposed for eight hours, then fixed with oil of
  lavender and white petroleum the result was a
  permanent image of some neighboring buildings, a
  pear tree, and the distant horizon.

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1839 unveiling Fox Talbot in England
photogenic drawing (or Talbotype or
Calotype)Jacques-Louis Daguerre in France
daguerreotype
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• How did photography change art, in your opinion?

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•         aperture (amount of light)
•         shutter speed (time of light)
•         photographys reception
•         effects on art
•         uses
•         the art photograph (Alfred Steiglitz /
  Edward Steichen)
•         the photo-art controversy
•         progress of photography

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The Steerage, Alfred Stieglitz 1907
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Douglass Lighters, Edward Steichen, 1928
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formal elementsprincipals of designthemesrepre
sentationalabstractnonobjective
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Mayan Weave, Guatemala by J. H. Huebert
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Child with a Toy Hand Grenade in Central Park,
Diane Arbus, 1962
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Diane ArbusTheir numbers were picked out of a
hat. They were just chosen King and Queen of a
Senior Citizens dance in NYC. Yetta Granaf is 72
and Charles Fahrer is 79. They have never met
before. 1970
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• In your opinion, can a photograph be abstract or
  nonobjective? If so, how?

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Photography is the most realistic art media.Can
a photograph be abstract or even nonobjective?
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Jerry Uelsmann (American, b. 1934, Detroit, MI)
Untitled, 1989Silverprint, 16" x 20"
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photo by Minor White
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• Should news media alter photographs before
  publication such as many newspapers did to John
  Paul Filos Kent State Girl Screaming over Dead
  Body? Fig. 373

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My Lai Massacre, Fig. 374

• Charlie Company
• March 16, 1968
• Photographs by army photographer Ron Haeberle
  were published in Cleveland Plain Dealer in
  November 1969.
• Images used by anti-war activists
• First Lieutenant William L. Calley, Jr. held
  responsible.
• A terribly savage chapter of U.S. history

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Video Figs. 395 and 396 Gary Hill, Crux,
1983-875 channel video/sound installation5
color monitors5 speakerscrux crucifixiona
barefooted trek across an island in the Hudson
River in New York as Christsascent of
Golgothainstalled in a gallery as crux of
monitors
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• What is the term used to describe the process of
  arranging sequences of film after it has been
  shot in its entirety?

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Editing
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• Name 8 types of filmmaking shots and define
  cross-cutting and flashback.

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• Full shot
• Medium shot close-up
• Extreme close-up
• Long Shot
• Iris shot
• Pan
• Traveling shot
• Cross-cutting The editor moves back and forth
  between two separate events to create high drama
  (victim and rescuer, etc.)
• Flashback The editor cuts to narrative episodes
  that are supposed top have taken place before the
  start of the film.

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Pinhole Photography Link(from Art Project 2
choices list)

• http//learning.nwc.hccs.edu/members/stanley.kamin
  ski/arts1301/assignments/Art20Project20220Choic
  es2020062028updated2006-29-0729.doc/view

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Show Davids pinhole camera and photographs!
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Henry Sayre SaysWhen a photograph or a film or
a video triggers a higher level of thought and
awareness in the viewer, when it stimulates the
imagination, then it is a work of art. What is
art for you?