Sk-etchbook

BBC - Genius of Photography
Andre Kertesz – Meudon
Photography shows a world that lies beneath appearances.
A camera obscurer.
Roman, Pennin – woman traces her dying lover on the wall.
Silver salts, react to light.
1802 – experiments, couldn’t fix shadows.
1839 – method invented by Talbot (paper, reproducible).
1839 – method invented Louie Daguerre (Daguerretypes, better quality, not reproducible).
Photographs – a looking glass view of the world.
Process of framing says “look at this”.
Undiscriminates between important/unimportant.
Doesn’t have a hierarchy of psychological interests.
Stanford/Moorbridge – Horse photos capture the motion.
Intrusion in time.
Commercial use.
Carpet Z photographs (8 small images)
Japanese women – Simona
Gaspar Felix – Nadar
Charles Boudlaire – Nadar
Captured photographs changed fine art (people & objects would be cropped).
Stereoscopic photographs.
Kodak.
Brownie camera.
Vernacular photography.
Killed – William Burke
Jacque Lartigue
Pictorialism

Diane Arbus
Camera is a licence
People want the attention.