Photography History 1901-1950 Presented by: James Skinner

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Photography History 1901-1950

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• James Skinner
• Amanda Young
• Chase Brown
• Jacob Van Gilder
• Stephenie Martin
• Michelle Campbell

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Alfred Stieglitz

• January 1, 1864 - July 13, 1946
• Became the "patron saint of straight
  photography."
• In 1902 he became a founder of the
  photo-secession, which is a group of avant-garde
  artists.
• In 1905 founded and directed the Photo-Secession
  Gallery
• He first produced a kind of romanticized pictures
  of an Impressionistic style, he would later move
  over to realism
• He made a distinct and influential contribution
  to the development of new styles of photography

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Oscar Barnack

• Inventor of the UR-Leica also known as the first
  35mm camera
• Compact, could be fitted with a high quality
  lens that allowed photographers to work in
  outdoor settings with available light.
• Always ready to capture life and action from
  any angle with the photographer able to remain
  unnoticed.
• Photographs no longer had to be confined to stiff
  artistic poses.

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Nikon

• originally resulted from a merger of three small
  firms in Japan 1881
• known for their microscopes, cine cameras,
  binoculars, surveying instruments, astronomical
  telescopes and optical measuring instruments.
• 1937 began marketing 50mm f/3.5 lens for 35mm
  cameras, and a 50mm f/2.0 lens followed
• NIKKOR lenses were used in Canon cameras until
  1948, when Nikon created its first camera.

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Man Ray

• 1890-1976
• participated in the cubist, Dadaist, and
  Surrealist art movements
• created a new photographic art which emphasized
  chance effects and surprising juxtapositions
  (side by side)
• "Rayographs" -made by placing objects directly on
  photographic paper and exposing them to the light
  (camera-less prints)
• Influenced primarily by Stieglitz

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F/64 Group

• created in 1932
• Members include Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham,
  Willard Van Dyke, John Paul Edwards, Consuelo
  Kanaga, Sonya Noskowiak, Henry Swift, Edward
  Weston
• F/64 refers to the smallest aperture setting on
  a large format camera
• The object of the Group is to present frequently
  shows what it considers the best contemporary
  photography of the West.
• The group is not pretending to cover the entirety
  of photography nor trying to depreciate opinions
  of photographers not included in the group

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Ansel Adams
Edward Weston
Imogen Cunningham
Willard Van Dyke
Consuelo Kanaga
Sonya Noskowiak
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Cecil Beaton

• 1904-1980
•  He was a famous British Portrait Photographer
• Worked for Vogue magazine for over 50 years
• Beaton did many portraits of famous people from
  the 1950s. For example, Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn
  Monroe and Frank Sinatra.
• Also as an official photographer for the
  second, world war.

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Evolution of Color Film

• 1907 first successful color film using an
  additive process
• Two brothers,Antoine and Louis Lumiere, made the
  Autochrome process known. This process included a
  glass plate with a layer of tiny bits of potato
  starch that were dyed orange, green, and violet.
  Then a light-sensitive emulsion was added
• Light would hit the emulsion after passing
  through the colored starch. The emulsion behind
  each grain was exposed only by the light from the
  scene that was the same color as that grain. The
  result after the development was a full-color
  transparency.

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Antoine Lumiere
Louis Lumiere
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Strobe Photography

• Harold Edgerton inventor of the electronic flash
  used in photography. Best known for using this
  flash to freeze time, and capture motions that
  occur in a fraction of a second.
• He wanted to photograph only a motor.During a
  research he needed to see how a motor flexed as
  it rotated. A regular camera showed only a blur
  because by the time the shutter opened and
  closed the motor had turned hundreds of times To
  solve this problem Edgerton darkened the room,
  opened the shutter permanently, and exposed the
  film quickly with his flash.
• With this invention He froze the moment when a
  bat dented a baseball, he captured for the first
  time in mid-flight the wings of a hummingbird,
  and in perhaps his most famous photo he caught a
  drop of milk splashing off a table.

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FujiFilm

• January 1934 Fujifilm founded.
• By 1938, Fuji is making cameras and lenses in
  addition to film.
• Fujifilm introduced the world's first disposable
  35mm camera the QuickSnap.

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C41 Color Film Technique

• C41 generic term for all color negative
  processing. Many photographers think that all C41
  film developed in any lab will always have the
  same results this is wrong - diverse brands of
  developer, bleach and fix affect the color mask
  of the film also blix (bleach/fix combined)
  will leave silver on the film, which will appear
  as grainy on the print.

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