COMM 1100U Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Big Cinemas, Kodak, Price Fixing
12 Dec 2017
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A brief history of still and moving pictures. Downside was the picture was inverted (upside down originally) What and who we took pictures of expanded to ordinary people with ordinary lives. Portraiture and daguerreotypes which is old tiny pictures of people"s faces. One of the reasons why people didn"t smile in older pictures was because paintings didn"t smile. Early photography people had to hold a smile for longer while the camera took the picture. Also smiling wasn"t a thing you do publically but privately in front of people you care for such as children, friends, family. Now we almost have an instinctive reaction to smile. Polaroid printed off pictures immediately but kodak figured out how to have coloured pictures. For the longest time kodak owned the rights to all coloured film. Photography"s role in the news and newspaper. We decide what belongs in the frame and what doesn"t. Combine certain images or leave some on their own.
