Photography and Early Art

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1 Photography and Early Art Is Photography Art? Photographers emulated themes of Painting Themes included: Landscape, Allegorical costumed figures, Still life, Nudes and Genre views. Some photographers were content with the photographs graphic ability to render information and ideas. Middle and other classes had the opportunity to experience images for the first time.

2 Photography and Early Art Photographers and Painters select themes and treatments that present situa3ons naturalis)cally Images should have a posi)ve and upli7ing message. Photographs should be truthful and inspira)onal The teaching of Art History became popular using photographs of objects and pain)ng.

NADAR (GASPARD Felix TOURNACHON). TWO cartoons. "Photography asking for just a likle place in the exhibi3on of fine arts. Engraving from Pe3t journal pour rire, 1855.

3 NADAR (GASPARD Felix TOURNACHON). TWO cartoons. "Photography asking for just a likle place in the exhibi3on of fine arts. Engraving from Pe3t journal pour rire, "The ingra3tude of pain3ng refusing the smallest place in its exhibi3on to photography to whom it owes so much." Engravings from Le journal amusant, Bibliotheque Na3onale, Paris.

4 Three main positions on the use of photography Photographs should not be considered art because they were made with a mechanical device and by physical and chemical instead of by human hand and spirit. (painters and public) Photographs would be useful to art but should not be considered equal in crea3veness to drawing and pain3ng. (Thomas Eakins, painters, some photographers and cri3cs) As with etching and lithography, camera images were or could be as significant as handmade works of art and they may have beneficial influence on the arts and culture in general.

5 G.P.A. Healy, Frederic Church and Jervis McEntee, The Arch of Titus, Oil on Canvas Unknown Photographer. Longfellow and Daughter In Healy Studio in Rome, Albumen Print.

The Voices of opposi3on to Photography France Charles Baudelaire (cri3c

photography) PHOTOGRAPHY She wrote, is concerned with the rela3onship of

6 The Voices of opposi3on to Photography France Charles Baudelaire (cri3c and poet) regarded photography as a very humble servant of art and science. England Lady Elizabeth Eastlake (one of the first to write about early photography) PHOTOGRAPHY She wrote, is concerned with the rela3onship of truth and reality John Ruskin (English and American cri3c) welcomed photography as a mechanical inven3on of value and then later denounced it as trivial

7 Photography and Early Art Pictoreal Themes embraced by photographers Nudes and costumed figures Landscape Still life Genre views

8 Nudes and costumed figures Hermann Krone. Nude Study, Daguerreotype Julien Vallou De Villeneuve. Women with Pitcher, Calotype.

9 Amercian Painter Thomas Eakins THOMAS EAKINS. The Swimming Hole, 1883.

10 Nature Charles_Marville. Salt Print from Calotype negative 1851 ASHER B. DURAXD. Trie Pool, Cliche verre from albumen print. 1859

11 Still Life ROGER FENTON. Still Life of Fruit, 1860 ADOLPHE BRAUN. Flower Study, c

12 Still Life VALENTIN GOTTFRIED. Hunt Picture, late 17th-early 18th century. Oil on canvas ADOLPHE BRAUN. Stil llife with Deer and Wildfowl, C Carbon print

13 Genre Photography CHARLES NEGRE. Young Girl Seated with a Basket, Salt print.

14 What were photographers saying about the status of Photography as Art? Many painters/photographers believed that camera images were capable of expression, thought and feelings. Roger Fenton: England Charles Negre, Gustav Legrey: France Carleton Watkins: America

15 There were other artist/painter/photographers who embraced a different vision. Oscar Gustav Rejlander Henry Peach Robinson

16 Composite Photography Two Ways of Life Oscar Rejlander. Two Ways of Life Albumen Composite print 1857

17 Oscar Rejlander. Two Ways of Life 1857 Raphael The School of Athens ( )

18 Composite Photography Oscar Rejlander. Hard Times, Albumen print

19 Composite Photography Henry Peach Robinson. Preliminary Sketch with photo inserted, Albumen print and pastel collage on paper

20 Fading Away Henry Peach Robinson Fading Away Composite Albumen Print.

21 Narrative, Allegorical, and Genre Images Julia Margaret Cameron Lancelot and Guinevere, about 1877 I Wait (R. Gurney), 1872

22 Narrative, Allegorical, and Genre Images Lady Clementina Hawarden CLEMENTINA, LADY HAWARDEN. Young Girl with Mirror Reflection, 1860s. Albumen print.

Peter Henry Emerson (1856 1936) In the Barley Harvest

23 Peter Henry Emerson ( ) In the Barley Harvest from Pictures of East Anglian Life, Gravure print.

24 Peter Henry Emerson ( )

25 Alfred Steiglitz

Nadar, Portrait of Eugène Delacroix

Art Versus Machine Nadar, Portrait of Eugène Delacroix Eugène Delacroix, Death of Sardanapal 1827 Eugène Delacroix, Barque of Dante 1822 Eugène Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People, 1830 Eugène Delacroix,