The Genius of Photography 摄影演义
In the course of our 170 year relationship, photography has delighted us, served us, moved us, outraged us and occasionally disappointed us. But mainly, it has intrigued us by showing the secret strangeness that lies beneath the world of appearances. And that is photography's true genius
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Once photography was invented, you could say then the question is what we do with this. By the 1850s, camera's takes-over and for the next half century or more, the overwhelming majorities of pictures that photographers had made are made for a commercial reason.
And if you wanted to make serious money from photography, this was the way to do it.
One important example of the major innovation in photographic technology was the introduction of the card*, a type of the photography pattern to divide, met a Frenchman named Ditch David in November 1854.As you stood for your portray, you are photographed 8 times in a rapid sequence by a camera that had eight lenses on it, so you could have eight poses in the space of a few minutes. And because these cards were small, they could be sent through the post, tens of hundreds, millions of this card with its flow back and forth between the new world of Unite states and Europe. In a fact, the card* turned photography into a true industry.
People invest in photography, because it could go anywhere, you know it has no fixed identity at this point. People realized that it...it is going to be able to do all these other things, you know, it's going to be able to go to war to make documentary photography and of course it's already tied up porterture, its big scene, but architects were beginning to use it because suddenly they had these very detailed views of monuments all over the world. And so they could make money and took all kinds of different aspects of photography.
It's a global phenomenon virtually since the day to get announcement, photography was being made all over the world. People were shipping cameras and equipments to all the parts of certainly the colonized world, so it's an incredible global phenomenon.
Photographers may have been quartering the globe, but the heart of photography's empire remained the studio.
Right now we are in our skylight studio, this is a studio that any 19th century photographer would love to work in it, it's a beautiful light, it's consistent all day long. Generally, in a 19th century studio which you were looking for was the artists looked for as well.
In the photographer studio, the Public encountered modernity in all its intriguing, intimidating strangeness.
For the sitter to come to a photographic studio, the experience was one of wonder to climb up three flights of stairs, are you out of breath, you are not sure what's going to be in the studio, um, they sit you down in the chair, they bring a cast-iron and headstand to keep your head steady, and they wired the camera like this up to your face like a cannon being aimed at you. Then you smell different smells, you have the smell of either, you have the smell of alcohol, the smell of sign in eye, the smell of oil of lavender, and all these things are mixed together in a gumball that is completely unfamiliar to you. And then they say try to have a natural expression. Ha,ha...
sitter
person who is being painted or photographed 被画像或拍照的人.
cast-iron
a type of iron that is hard, breaks easily, and is shaped in a mould
headstand
a position in which you turn your body upside down, with your head and hands on the floor and your legs and feet in the air
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