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Daguerreotyped
- The promise of letting everyone establish advisable self-image.
- Portrait=emblem of democracy.
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Dagurreotye Era
- ‘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).
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Private Portrait
image remain within family and friends (convey individuality)
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Public portrait
image that resonated with the popular imagination
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Scientific Portrait
seeking to record 'objectively' a subject who must be made to conform to a social type
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Landscape Types
- View- scene itself (witness)
- Aesthetic landscape-artistic vision animates the image
- Topographic photograph- more descriptive and is part of the larger political/scientific discourse
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Sublimity
High spiritual or intellectual worth
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Pictorialism
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
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Photo-Secession
effort to elevate photography to the level of the fine arts by answering its mechanical nature. Not painting but art photography
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Modernism
- Idea things are bigger.
- Progress is necessary
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Photo League
- emerged in 1936
- Purpose was to supply moving footage and still photo that promoted the workers' stuggle as part of a larger international movement
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still photography
"photography to see what the world look like photographed"
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Memorial Photography
- "mouring pictures"
- remembering
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Industrial Photography
- service to the consumer economy
- advertising
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Zone of Contention
- Controversies in a field.
- Decide new knowledge
- Want to be involved.
- Why when how
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Operational Defintion
- Beyond assumptions.
- Need for a clarification in a field
- Book, learn romance, machine, conversation, preservation
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Criticism
- describes the work of art, interpret it, they evaluate it and theorize about it
- More than just judging
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Exploratory aesthetic criticism
- critics delay judgment of value.
- Heavily on description and interpretive thought
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Argumentative aesthetic criticism
- 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
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subject matter
- How they did that
- what you see
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subject
- what does it mean
- what it means
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form
- is how the subject matter is presented
- "shape of content:
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Medium
what an art object is made of
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Style
Resemblance among diverse art objects from an artist, movement, time period or geo location
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External
- what it means
- gather descriptive info that increases understanding of that photograph
- outside views
- Relationships to each other
- Seek descriptive information
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Internal
what you see in the photograph
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Descriptions
contain crucial info and interesting info that leads them to understand and appreciate images.
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Interpret
to make sense of an image
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Denotation
- Show.
- out of the image (story, reason)
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Connotation
- Suggest, imply
- in the image (visual)
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Tassest
- Skills learned to the point you don't have to think of them anymore
- Can concentrate on something else
- Under normal conditions, no thought
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Comparative interpretation
Two thing resemblance
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Archetypal interpreation
impersonal, universal and mythical
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Feminist Interpretation
woman's view in society
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Psychoanalytic interpretation
- how they work in our thinking
- our reactions
- base on culture and how things work
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Formalist interpretation
- based primarily on consideration of the image's formal properties
- space, light and events
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Semiotic interpretation
seeks more to understand how an image mean than what it means
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Marxist interpretation
manifestations of larger socital developments and social history
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Biographical interpreation
bio info about photographer and why they make the photos
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Intentionalist Interpretation
want to know what the maker intended in an image or body or work
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Stylisitc Trends:
Straight
- ablitiy of the camera to record exact images w/ rich texture and great detail
- never losing contact with reality
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Formalistic
isolating and organizing form for its own sake w/o the use of cameras and w/o concern for photography
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Documentary
Essentially a desire to record without intrusion to inform honestly, accuratley and above all convincingly
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Equivalent
charged w/ emotional significance and inner meaning
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mirrors
tells about the artist, romantically self expressive
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Windows
More about the world are realistic explorations more concerned w/ descriptions than suggestion
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Descriptive Photographs
offer description, visual info w/ great or lesser detail
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Orginal context
knowledge of what was psychologically present to the photo taker at time of exposure
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Realism
- oldest theories mimesis and mimectiscism
- Accutrately portray the universe in all it variations
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Expressionism
artist's intense experience is that basis of art making and that viewer should judge art according ot the feelings
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Instrumentalism
- art for lifes sake
- art based on social moral and economic purposes
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