Joe Irving

Portrait Photography

Brian Griffin B&W

Abstract

Distinctive features picked out

Subject is framed by the picture and they fill the image

David Bailey B&WExpressions related

to subject

Shadows to emphasize textures

Dark clothes put focus onto the subjects features

Photography (derived from the Greek phot- for “light” and -graphos for “drawing”)

The history of photography commenced with the invention and development of the camera and the creation of permanent images starting with Thomas Wedgwood in 1790 and culminating in the work of the French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1826.earliest surviving camera photograph.First color image, photograph by Thomas Sutton, 1861

ancient times: Camera obscuras used to form images on walls in darkened rooms; image formation via a pinhole

16th century: Brightness and clarity of camera obscuras improved by enlarging the hole inserting a telescope lens

17th century: Camera obscuras in frequent use by artists and made portable in the form of sedan chairs

1727: Professor J. Schulze mixes chalk, nitric acid, and silver in a flask; notices darkening on side of flask exposed to sunlight. Accidental crea-tion of the first photo-sensitive compound.

1800: Thomas Wedgwood makes “sun pictures” by placing opaque objects on leather treated with silver nitrate; resulting images deteriorated rapidly, however, if displayed under light stronger than from candles.

1834: Henry Fox Talbot creates permanent (negative) images using paper soaked in silver chloride and fixed with a salt solution. Talbot created positive images by contact printing onto another sheet of paper.

1907: First commercial color film, the Autochrome plates, manufactured by Lumiere brothers in France

1917: Nippon Kogaku K.K., which will eventually become Nikon, established in Tokyo.

1975: Nicholas Nixon takes his first annual photograph of his wife and her sisters: “The Brown Sisters”; Steve Sasson at Kodak builds the first working CCD-based digital still camera

1987: The popular Canon EOS system introduced, with new all-electronic lens mount

1990: Adobe Photoshop released.

1999: Nikon D1 SLR, 2.74 megapixel for $6000, first ground-up DSLR design by a leading manufacturer.

2000: Camera phone introduced in Japan by Sharp/J-Phone

2003: Four-Thirds standard for compact digital SLRs introduced with the Olympus E-1; Canon Digital Rebel introduced for less than $1000

2004: Kodak ceases production of film cameras

2005: Canon EOS 5D, first consumer-priced full-frame digital SLR, with a 24x36mm CMOS sensor for $3000;

Photography History David HockneyIn the early 1980s, Hockney began to produce photo-collages, which he called “joiners,” first using Polaroid prints and subsequently 35mm, commercially-pro-cessed color prints. Using Polaroid snaps or pho-tolab-prints of a single subject, Hockney arranged a patchwork to make a composite image.[15] An early photomontage was of his mother. Because the pho-tographs are taken from different perspectives and at slightly different times, the result is work that has an affinity with Cubism, one of Hockney’s major aims—discussing the way human vision works. Some pieces are landscapes, such as Pearblossom Highway #2,[5][16] othersportraits, such as Kasmin 1982,[17] and My Mother, Bolton Abbey, 1982.

Between 1970 and 1986, he created photomontages, calling them joiners.[19] He began this style of art by taking Polaroid photographs of one subject and arranging them into a grid layout. The subject moved while being photographed, so that the pieces show the movements of the subject from the camera’s perspec-tive. In later works, Hockney changed the technique, moving the camera around the subject.Creation of the “joiners” occurred accidentally. He noticed in the late sixties that photographers were using cameras with wide-angle lenses. He did not like these photographs because they looked somewhat distorted. While working on a painting of a living room and terrace in Los Angeles, he took Polaroid shots of the living room and glued them together, not intending for them to be a composition on their own. On looking at the final composition, he realized it created a narrative, as if the viewer moved through the room. He began to work more with photography after this discovery and stopped painting for a while to exclusively pursue this new technique. Frustrated with the limitations of photography and its ‘one eyed’ approach

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Studio Finals Joey Studio Finals Liam

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