A Picture is worth a Thousand Words

The Persuasive Power of Photography

The Persuasive Power of Photography

The Invention of Photography

• The basic chemistry– Johanne Schultze -light-sensitive materials

– Carl Scheele -”fixing” the image

• First Photographs– Joseph Niepce-permanent image using an emulsion

– Louis Daugerre - direct-positive image on metal

– William Henry Fox Talbot -paper negative, allowed multiple images

– Fredrick Archer -glass negative, multiple images with sharper detail

Camera Obscuro

From Greek meaning “dark chamber”

Calotype Prints

William Henry Fox Talbot

Calotype paper negative

Paper print (positive) form calotype negative

One of the earliest photographs using an emulsion.

Joseph Neipce

From Laboratory to Art

“Daguerreotype”a direct-positive process using an emulsion on a metal plate

LouisDaguerre

From Laboratory to Art

From Laboratory to Art

• Naturalists– Nature recorded

without changing it (Realism)

• Pictorialists– Photographs should

look like paintings (Emotionalism)

Phillip Henry Delamotte

Naturalists

Pictorialists

Oscar J. Rejlander

Bringing distant lands home

• Carte d’visite - (postcards)• Photo Journalists

– War Photographers • Matthew Brady Timothy Sullivan

• Robert Capa Larry Burrows

• Carl Mydans W. Eugene Smith

– Life Magazine Photographers• Margaret Bourke-White Jacob Riis

• Alfred Eisenstaedt Lewis Hine

Carte d’visite - (postcards)• souvenirs of visits to far away places

Carte d’visite

•Artists Photographers•Alfred Stieglitz Edward Weston•James Van Der Zee Edward Steicen•Gordon Parks Ansel Adams•Arnold Newman Annie Liebowitz•Paul Strand Dianne Arbus•Imogen Cunningham

From Laboratory to Art

Memory Makers

• Timeline– Earliest photographs appeared

around 1839

• Events throughout history

Photojournalism

Timothy O’Sullivan - 1864

Matthew Brady - 1864

Photojournalism

The Golden Spike used to connect rail lines

from East and West at Promontory Point, Utah, 1869

Andrew J. Russell

Photojournalism

Lewis Hine

Immigrants at Ellis Island -1908

Photojournalism

Photojournalism

Margaret Bourke-White

First issue of Life Magazine - 1936

Hindenburg DisasterMay 6, 1937

Sam Shere

Photojournalism

Photojournalism

Walker Evans

Federally-funded Work Program

The Liberation of Buchenwald - 1945

Photojournalism

Margaret Bourke-White

Joe Rosenthal

Raising the Flag at Mt. Suribachi - Iwo JimaFebruary 23, 1945

Photojournalism

Photojournalism

Dorothea Lange

Migrant Mother - March, 1936

Alfred Eisentstaedt

Photojournalism

V-J Day in Time SquareAugust 14, 1945

Edward Weston

Photography as Art

Pepper - 1930

Ansel Adams

Moon and Halfdome - Yosemite Valley

Photography as Art

Alfred Steiglitz

Photography as Art

Sun Rays - Paula - Berlin 1889

Georgia O’Keeffe - 1918

Alfred Steiglitz

Photography as Art

Georgia O’Keeffe:A Portrait - Hands and Grapes - 1921

Grapes on White Dish - Dark Rim - 1920

Georgia O’Keeffe

Alfred Steiglitz

Photography as Art

Georgia O’Keeffe: A Portrait - Neck - 1921 The Dark Iris No. II - 1926

Georgia O’Keeffe

Gordon Parks

Photography as Art

American Gothic

Photography as Art

James Van Der Zee

Photography as Art

Arnold NewmanIgor Stravinsky

W. Eugene Smith

Into the Light

Photography as Art

Innovations

• Tools & Techniques– Kodak camera– Leica 35 mm camera– Leica and others 35 mm electronic camera– Ektachrome color slide film– Kodachrome color slide film– Kodacolor color print film

Kodak Brownie Camera

First mass produced camera available to the general public.

LeicaThe first 35mm electronic camera

• Small format film

• Electronic Shutter• Quality Optical Lens

First Color Slide Film

Kodak Ektachrome

Image Makers

• Famous faces

Marilyn Monroe1954

Matthew Zimmerman

Image Makers

Pablo Picasso

Image Makers

Arnold Newman

Edward Steicen

Gloria Swanson

Image Makers

Image Makers

The Kennedy Family

Annie Liebowitz

The Blues BrothersWoopie Goldberg

Bruce Springsteen

Image Makers

Memories You Can’t Forget

The Murder of Lee Harvey Oswald - 1963

Robert Jackson

Photojournalism

A young woman deformed by Mercury PollutionJapan - 1971

W. Eugene Smith

Photojournalism

From Laboratory to Art

Montgomery Civil Rights Demonstration

From Laboratory to Art

M.L. King’s “I Have A Dream” speechMarch on Washington - 1968

The Assassination of Robert Kennedy - 1968

Bill Eppridge

Photojournalism

Children fleeing an American Napalm strike - 1972

Huynh Cong “Nick” Ut

Photojournalism

Viewing Ourselves

William Anders - 1968Apollo 8

Photojournalism

Age of Revolution

Fall of The Berlin Wall -1989

Farewell to Lenin - Bucharest, 1990

Alfred

Alexandra Avakian

Fireman and child in Oklahoma City - 1995

Charles H. Porter IV

Photojournalism

Photography Today

• Where we stand now

• How the past influenced the present

What’s Next ?

• New Technology and Photographic Processes

• Ethical issues

• What’s in the Future

Edward Muybridge

Zoophraxiscope - showing horse galloping - 1881

Innovations

Strobe Flash Photography - 1939

Harold Edgerton

Technology

Jerry Ulesman

Manipulated Imagescombining traditional images in the darkroom

Innovations

David Hockney

Pearblossom Highway - Photocollage- 1986

Innovations

Robert Silver

Photomosaic of Lincoln using Matthew Brady Images

O.J. Simpson

L.A. Police Mug shot Time Magazine Cover

Photo Illustration by Matt Mahurin

Image Makers

Who knows what some people might do!

Image Makers

To be continued...