EPH104 THE EVOLUTION OF PHOTOGRAPHY AND IT’S IMPACT ON THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT. EPH104 – THE EVOLUTION OF PHOTOGRAPHY Table of Contents INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................. 5 PART 1: TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT ..................................................................... 7 Precursors ................................................................................................................... 8 Early Experiments........................................................................................................ 9 HELIOGRAPHY ....................................................................................................... 9 DAGUERREOTYPE ............................................................................................... 10 PHOTOGENIC DRAWING ..................................................................................... 11 Early views of the medium’s potential ........................................................................ 13 The Revolution Of Technique .................................................................................... 14 DEVELOPMENT OF THE DAGUERREOTYPE ..................................................... 14 DEVELOPMENT OF THE CALOTYPE .................................................................. 18 DEVELOPMENT OF STEREOSCOPIC PHOTOGRAPHY ..................................... 20 DEVELOPMENT OF THE WET COLLODION PROCESS ..................................... 21 DEVELOPMENT OF THE DRY PLATE.................................................................. 23 PHOTOGRAPHY OF MOVEMENT ........................................................................ 24 EARLY ATTEMPTS AT COLOUR .......................................................................... 25 Establishing Genres ................................................................................................... 26 PORTRAITURE ..................................................................................................... 26 PHOTOJOURNALISM ........................................................................................... 28 DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY - LANDSCAPE AND ARCHITECTURAL ....... 31 SOCIAL DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY ......................................................... 34 Photography As Art .................................................................................................... 37 © COPYRIGHT – ALL RIGHTS RESERVED VERSION 2 PAGE: 1 EPH104 – THE EVOLUTION OF PHOTOGRAPHY EARLY DEVELOPMENTS ..................................................................................... 37 NATURALISTIC PHOTOGRAPHY ......................................................................... 39 PICTORIALISM AND THE LINKED RING .............................................................. 40 Timeline ..................................................................................................................... 41 PART 2: THE HUMAN FACTOR ................................................................................... 80 Ansel Adams ............................................................................................................. 81 Henri Cartier-Bresson ................................................................................................ 82 Dorothea Lange ......................................................................................................... 83 Robert Capa .............................................................................................................. 84 Helmut Newton .......................................................................................................... 85 André Kertész ............................................................................................................ 86 Sally Mann ................................................................................................................. 87 Mario Testino ............................................................................................................. 88 Steve McCurry ........................................................................................................... 89 Timothy Hogan .......................................................................................................... 90 Christian Aslund ........................................................................................................ 91 Jeremy Coward ......................................................................................................... 92 Annie Leibovitz .......................................................................................................... 93 David LaChapelle ...................................................................................................... 94 Nicholas Samaras...................................................................................................... 95 Anne Geddes ............................................................................................................. 96 Mareen Fischinger ..................................................................................................... 97 Andrea Gjestvang ...................................................................................................... 98 Florian Ritter .............................................................................................................. 99 Michael Kenna ......................................................................................................... 100 © COPYRIGHT – ALL RIGHTS RESERVED VERSION 2 PAGE: 2 EPH104 – THE EVOLUTION OF PHOTOGRAPHY PART 3: THE IMPACT ON SOCIETY ......................................................................... 101 Milk Drop Coronet .................................................................................................... 102 The Burning Monk ................................................................................................... 103 Muhammad Ali vs. Sonny Liston .............................................................................. 104 Fetus 18 Weeks ....................................................................................................... 105 Black Power Salute .................................................................................................. 106 A Man on the Moon ................................................................................................. 107 The Terror Of War ................................................................................................... 108 Michael Jordan ........................................................................................................ 109 Tank Man ................................................................................................................ 110 Famine in Somalia ................................................................................................... 111 Bosnia ..................................................................................................................... 112 Starving Child and Vulture ....................................................................................... 113 Falling Man .............................................................................................................. 114 Iraqi Girl At Checkpoint ............................................................................................ 115 Gorilla In The Congo ................................................................................................ 116 The Situation Room ................................................................................................. 117 Oscars Selfie ........................................................................................................... 118 Alan Kurdi ................................................................................................................ 119 Closer to Home ........................................................................................................ 121 CONCLUSION ............................................................................................................ 123 REFERENCES ........................................................................................................ 123 ASSIGNMENT E4 ....................................................................................................... 125 PART A: IN THEORY….. ......................................................................................... 125 PART B: PHOTO ASSIGNMENT ............................................................................. 126 © COPYRIGHT – ALL RIGHTS RESERVED VERSION 2 PAGE: 3 EPH104 – THE EVOLUTION OF PHOTOGRAPHY TASK 1 .................................................................................................................... 126 TASK 2 .................................................................................................................... 127 TASK 3 .................................................................................................................... 127 © COPYRIGHT – ALL RIGHTS RESERVED VERSION 2 PAGE: 4 EPH104 – THE EVOLUTION OF PHOTOGRAPHY INTRODUCTION We hop into our bright, shiny cars, turn on the air conditioning, crank up the music and drive on down the motorway at 110klms per hour without looking back. We travel great distances at high speeds and such is the technology that we often need a pit stop before the vehicle does. Most of us give little