Introduction
This is the research for the "10 Photographs to Know" for the Interior photography unit.
Process
Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre Still Life, 1837 Daguerreotype
This was one of the first interior photographs taken. It is a photo of the artist’s studio.
Click here for more info:http://akvis.com/en/articles/photo-history/daguerre.php
Alfred Stieglitz Sun’s Rays – Paula, Berlin 1889 Gelatin Silver Print
Stieglitz is recognized as one of the most important figures in the history of photography. He is credited with bringing photography up to an equal “footing” as the traditional arts (i.e. painting, sculpture, etc.).
He ran a gallery in New York City called “the little gallery of the Photo-Secessionists” at 291 5th Avenue in Manhattan. He published the first great photo books “Camera Work”. He eventually married the famous painter, Georgia O’Keeffe.
Click here to read more information: http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/66284
Frederick Evans A Sea of Steps, Wells Cathedral 1903 Platinotype
This is an example of "straight" photography. Evans believed in straightforward, "perfect" photographic rendering – un-retouched or modified in any way.
This worked well with his images (mostly of cathedrals)…because platinum became too expensive…Evans retired from photography by 1915.
Click here to hear audio about the process: http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/frederick_evans/audio_980.html
Lewis Hine Carolina cotton mill 1908 Gelatin Silver Print
Hine was influential in helping to get child labor laws put into place. He was the staff photographer for the National Child Labor Committee, traveling more than 50,000 miles from Maine to Texas to photograph youngsters in mines, mills, canneries, fields, and working on the streets, in order to provide “photographic proof” that “no anonymous or signed denials” could contradict.
Click here to read more: http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/23336
Jerry Uelsmann Philosopher’s Desk 1976 Gelatin Silver Print
Jerry Uelsmann is recognized as the master of the combination print. He used multiple enlargers and “masking” to make his images. This room is “surreal”.
For more information:http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/before-there-was-photoshop-these-photographers-knew-how-to-manipulate-an-image-36808349/?no-ist
Joel Meyerowitz Hartwig House, Truro, Cape Cod 1976 Chromogenic Color Print
Meyerowitz used a large format view camera (8”x10” negatives) to create his images. This image is from his series “Cape Light” and shows an open door leading to another and another till the viewers eye sees the outside.
For more information:http://www.phaidon.com/agenda/photography/articles/2015/july/30/what-joel-meyerowitz-learned-in-cape-cod/
Sandy Skoglund Radioactive Cats 1980 Chromogenic Color Photo of Installation
Skoglund created inventive “installations” (a scene created to evoke a response from the viewer) and then photographed them. Thus, creating a piece of work twice…the installation and the photo.
Early sketch of the work:http://www.sandyskoglund.com/pages/archive/arcopen/cats.html
Abelardo Morell Times Square Hotel Room, New York, NY 1997 Gelatin Silver Print
Morell uses the technique of camera obscura to create his amazing images. He darkens a room while allowing only a small circle of light to come through…the projected image from outside is then photographed in a room.
More information about the image:http://aperture.org/shop/index.php/prints/camera-obscura-image-of-times-square-in-hotel-room-1997
Andreas Gursky 99 cent 1999 Chromogenic Color Print
Gursky uses repetition and pattern in many of his images
Click here for more information:http://www.its.caltech.edu/~squires/gursky/
Glen Scheffer Ballroom with Chairs, Academy of Music, Philadelphia, PA,2010 Digital Scan and Print of a 4x5” film negative.
Scheffer scans traditional film into a computer and creates archival ink jet prints.
Click here to see more of his work: http://www.glenscheffer.com/site/mainpage.html