phototerms

• The promise of letting everyone establish advisable self-image.
• Portrait=emblem of democracy.

• ‘Occupational Portrait’- Male subject with objects related to work.
• 1860- Early 20th century- upward mobility.
• When production was central to economic and social identity. (Not consumption).

image remain within family and friends (convey individuality)

image that resonated with the popular imagination

seeking to record 'objectively' a subject who must be made to conform to a social type

• View- scene itself (witness)
• Aesthetic landscape-artistic vision animates the image
• Topographic photograph- more descriptive and is part of the larger political/scientific discourse

High spiritual or intellectual worth

Picture like a painting. Strongly kindred spirits of painting and photography at the same time (last decades of 19th century) Amateur photographers. Art form into photography

effort to elevate photography to the level of the fine arts by answering its mechanical nature. Not painting but art photography

• Idea things are bigger.
• Progress is necessary

• emerged in 1936
• Purpose was to supply moving footage and still photo that promoted the workers' stuggle as part of a larger international movement

"photography to see what the world look like photographed"

• "mouring pictures"
• remembering

• service to the consumer economy
• advertising

• private
• public
• scientific

• Controversies in a field.
• Decide new knowledge
• Want to be involved.
• Why when how

• Beyond assumptions.
• Need for a clarification in a field
• Book, learn romance, machine, conversation, preservation

• describes the work of art, interpret it, they evaluate it and theorize about it
• More than just judging

• critics delay judgment of value.
• Heavily on description and interpretive thought

• after sufficient interpretive analysis;
• critics estimate the work's positive aspects or lack of them and give full account of their judgement based on explicity stated criteria and standards

• How they did that
• what you see

• what does it mean
• what it means

• is how the subject matter is presented
• "shape of content:

what an art object is made of

Resemblance among diverse art objects from an artist, movement, time period or geo location

• what it means
• gather descriptive info that increases understanding of that photograph
• outside views
• Relationships to each other
• Seek descriptive information

what you see in the photograph

contain crucial info and interesting info that leads them to understand and appreciate images.

to make sense of an image

• Show.
• out of the image (story, reason)

• Suggest, imply
• in the image (visual)

• Skills learned to the point you don't have to think of them anymore
• Can concentrate on something else
• Under normal conditions, no thought

Two thing resemblance

impersonal, universal and mythical

woman's view in society

• how they work in our thinking
• our reactions
• base on culture and how things work

• based primarily on consideration of the image's formal properties
• space, light and events

seeks more to understand how an image mean than what it means

manifestations of larger socital developments and social history

bio info about photographer and why they make the photos

want to know what the maker intended in an image or body or work

• ablitiy of the camera to record exact images w/ rich texture and great detail
• never losing contact with reality

isolating and organizing form for its own sake w/o the use of cameras and w/o concern for photography

Essentially a desire to record without intrusion to inform honestly, accuratley and above all convincingly

charged w/ emotional significance and inner meaning

tells about the artist, romantically self expressive

More about the world are realistic explorations more concerned w/ descriptions than suggestion

offer description, visual info w/ great or lesser detail

knowledge of what was psychologically present to the photo taker at time of exposure

• oldest theories mimesis and mimectiscism
• Accutrately portray the universe in all it variations

artist's intense experience is that basis of art making and that viewer should judge art according ot the feelings

• art for lifes sake
• art based on social moral and economic purposes