It was an overall experience that modern life was more and more broken along the lines of the public and private as also the rising speed of industrial society. Photomontage and photo collage along with their blending of typography and photographic pictures generates expression to these conditions while extending photography beyond what had come to be fine art photography's confines and convention. Although believed as radical, these ingenuities were premised on the trade secrets of the latter part of 19th century work of commercial photographers that included double-exposure, timed exposures and dark-room procedures like masking, burning and dodging. The major differences between the initial manipulation of images and those of the 20th century professional photographers and artists remained that the latter stressed its fracture rendering it obvious that the photographic images are all the time a construct. (Peres, 184)
Scholars understand that the earliest photograph of a work of art constitutes an important document, mainly to mean the present state, maybe prior to restoration of a work of art. The "subjective" characteristic of both black and white and color photography nevertheless would seem to be an vague quality veiled in a blur of photo science. Examination of the history of photography of individual media like architecture, painting, sculpture, decorative arts, and graphic arts will each render their independent stories. Therefore the stories of photography of art in Germany, France, Britain and Italy are all idiosyncratic of a several political, social, economic and historical causes. (Roberts, 90)
Walter Benjamin in his essay had observed that even though the knowledge of reproducibility of artworks has been there for a long time through engraving, etching, stamping etc., with the arrival of photography, detail reproduction was speeded up with the least endeavor. He has also analyzed the impact of the reproduction of artworks and the art of film, on art in its conventional form. He is absolutely right when he regards the impact of photography on art as central as compared to the impact of art on photography even though the latter is also vital. He reasoned that the work of art is differentiated from a reproduction by the here and now of the artwork. The original is genuine. He is right when he states that photographic reproduction does not amount to forgery, as it has the potential to divulge details that are not discernable to the human eye, and has the potential to put the artwork in perspectives that are beyond reach. Mass existence removes the genuine object from the field of convention. (the work of art in the age of its technological reproducibility)
Again, Benjamin makes an important observation in that the reproduction of an artwork is not similar to the original. As a matter of fact, sometimes details are never divulged, or a lot of details get unnoticed. The quality of the artwork is distinct from the photograph. It has to be noted here that Benjamin selects here to contemplate of photography of art, and not of photography in its own. He regards the artwork as capable of being reproduction through photography, and focuses on the difference between the reproduction and the original, recognizing originality and the impression of the artwork as individuality which gets missing during the course of reproduction. Impression and genuineness are indistinct ideas according to Benjamin which he relates them with an old viewpoint regarding art wherein a Master recognizes a particular contribution of art, and gleans the just needed magic on a canvas. The most vital argument at this point remains that photographs are capable of reproduction, regardless of...
In Braque's "Woman with a Guitar we can see the foreshadowing of the Synthetic Cubism period, when he introduces stenciling and lettering, a practice that Picasso was soon to imitate. Figure 7: Picasso, Le Guitariste"(1910 Figure 8: Braque "Woman with a Guitar" (1913 Synthetic Cubism/Collage 1912-1914: Braque was beginning to experiment further now by mixing materials such as sand and sawdust into his paint to create a more textured, built- up look and what
Dye transfer was developed during the 1920s and 1930s by printing the negatives with a variation of the carbon process (dye transfer), which is now called "assembly printing;" however, this was both tedious and time-consuming -- even though the pictures were beautiful. It wasn't until 1935 that Eastman Kodak came to market with a film that was made up of three-color emulsion coated on a single piece of plastic
For example, his work "Icy Night" looks deceptively simple at first glance. It is simply a cold night, with a new layer of snow blanketing the ground and tree trunks. However, the trees fade off into the shadows like ghosts, and the streets are eerily empty and quiet. Stieglitz captures the mood of an "Icy Night" perfectly, and it is works like this that prove his theory that photography is
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Nevertheless, Cartier-Bresson chose to stay true to his format and take the picture in black and white which helps in the translation of what is seen and not seen, in this writer's opinion. The rag pickers are standing in a sea of fabric, most likely discarded by manufacturer's shipping from an impoverished to an industrialized country. The very people who make the fabrics from the natural resources of their
Splashes of color like red and several shades of blue are added to the collage in a "dragonfly, wing-like" formation. A cutout photograph of a boy is pasted on the "wing" of a lighter shade of blue, perhaps to note a sense of calm to his surroundings. The Hawkins' exhibit will consist of 80 objects, a retrospective of his nearly a quarter of a century career. The work is described
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