Photography: 18261910

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Photography 1826-1910
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Nicephore Niepce View from His Window at Gras,
1826earliest surviving photograph
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Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre Paris Boulevard,
1839
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Daguerre Paris Boulevard, Detail
The first man caught on film.
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• Types of Photography
• Documentary
• Portrait
• Art
• Each type of photography developed separately and
  had a different effect on society.

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• Developments in technology
• William Fox Talbotcalotypes
• or negatives
• Wet-Platereduced exposure
• time to seconds
• Tintypethin metal plate
• Dry platerapid speed exposure
• Portable handheld cameras and
• roll film by 1880s

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Jacob Riis (1849-1914)
Riis Published How the Other Half Lives in 1890.
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Jacob Riis
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Jacob Riis His photos led to reform law in
housing and labor.
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Felix Nadar Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt,
1859 Among first to use electric light in
photographs
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Nadar Invents Aerial Photography Sort Of
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Photography as Art Julia Margaret Cameron My
Niece Julia Jackson, 1867
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Julia Margaret Cameron The Angel at the
Sepulcher, 1869 1st to shoot out of focus to
convey moodart
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Julia Margaret Cameron I Wait, 1873
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Early Impressionism 1860-1885
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Let there be light and color! 1st real artistic
revolution since the Renaissance Goal to present
an impression Color on an object changes
constantly.
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• Early Impressionism
• Manet Degas
• Monet Cassat
• Renoir
• Impressionism was considered so outrageous that
  it is said pregnant women were barred from
  exhibitions lest the filth injure their unborn
  children. A newspaper claimed one gallery visitor
  was driven to madness and went around biting
  people.

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Edward Manet The Fifer
One art critic said that Manets work was a
practical joke a shameful, open sore.
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Edward Manet The Bar at Folies-Bergere, 1882
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Claude Monet Rouen Cathedral (Day), 1894
Monet was obsessed with light and made a series
of painting depicting Rouen Cathedral at
different times of the day.
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Claude Monet Rouen Cathedral (Twilight), 1894
Monet was also obsessed with water and once said
that he wanted to be buried in a buoy.
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Claude Monet Rouen Cathedral (Evening), 1894
Monet was such a compulsive painter that when his
wife died, he painted her as the color drained
from her body.
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Claude Monet Impressionism Sunrise, 1872
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Claude Monet Water Lilies (The Clouds), 1903
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Auguste Renoir Le Moulin de la Galette, 1876
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Edgar Degas Prima Ballerina, 1876
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Edgar Degas The Glass of Absinthe, 1876
This painting is what inspired the story of
Madame Bijou in the movie Titanic.
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Mary Cassat Young Mother Sewing, 1893
Though American by birth, Cassat lived in Paris.
Her subjects were mostly women because the morals
of the day would not permit her to be alone with
men.
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Late Impressionism (Post-Impressionism) 1880-1905
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Georges Seurat (Inventor of Pointillism) A
Sunday on La Grande Jatte, 1885
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Toulouse-Lautrec Moulin Rouge La Goulue, 1891
Toulouse-Lautrec was a pioneer in lithography and
poster-making.
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Toulouse-Lautrec At the Moulin Rouge, 1892
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Paul Cezanne Turning Road at Montgeroult, 1899
Cezanne was the most criticized Impressionist
painter. He became a virtual hermit.
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Paul Gauguin Yellow Christ, 1889
Gauguin was a lively fellow. He once said, Eat
well, kiss well, work ditto and you will die
happy.
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Vincent Van Gogh Sunflowers, 1888
Van Gogh made many sunflower paintings. He once
proposed selling them for 40 cents to brighten
the walls of poor workers homes.
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Vincent Van Gogh The Starry Night, 1889
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Van Gogh Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear, 1889
Van Gogh cut off his left ear lobe and gave it to
a prostitute after having a fight with Gauguin.
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Van Gogh Van Gogh made more portraits than any
painter other than Rembrandt. He sold only one
painting during his lifetime. He only won the
affections of one woman, who poisoned herself
after her parents rejected the match. He would
paint at night by sticking candles in his
hat. After his brother complained of financial
troubles, Van Gogh wrote a letter declaring,
Whats the use? Then he walked into a field and
shot himself. Before he died, he said, Who would
believe that life could be so sad?
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Art Nouveau 1890-1914
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Aubrey Beardsley Illustrator
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Beardsley Illustration from Oscar
Wildes Salome, 1892
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Louis Comfort Tiffany Glasswork Dogwood circa
1900
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Tiffany Water Lily Table Lamp 1904
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Tiffany Peacock Feather Vases