VCC236H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Louis Daguerre, Phantasmagoria, Kinescope
8 Dec 2017
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Late 1800s and looking: the second half of the 19th century lines in a sort of frenzy of the visible. This sped up communication: railroad and steamship had collapsed distance (space). Some visited museums if they were unable to travel. 1870s: van gogh, caf lerrace on the place du from, 1888: the painting displays the urban spaces of paris, with electric lighting brightening the scene. With the decline of high class, the middle-class, low-class became mobile in the big city. Inventors created wide variety of apparatuses to extend the field of the visible: panorama: it is a representation of a 360 degree space. He was the first to patent the panorama: robert barker: he painted early panoramas in cylindrical structure covered in landscape, painting. These devices included a form of projected entertainment spectacle that relied on controlled light projected through glass slides (ex.
