JOUR 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Life Insurance, Jacob Riis, Lewis Hine

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Journalism and Communication
• Course: JOUR 1001
• Professor: Christopher Dornan

Document Summary

Make it informative, nonfictional film, tell us or show us something. Make it innovative, do it with style and creativity, be original. Witness to the moment: images from daguerre to instagram. Meaning of photographs can have profound political, social, economic impact. Photography like the youtube or tumblr or instagram of its day, a visual record from the most personal and mundane things to the most shocking, repellant, images you can barely stand to look at. Politicians use images to get our attention, personality of politician speaks, candidates become branded. Photography begins in 1839, jan 7, daguerre unveils it to the french academie des sciences. Prior to this, no way of recording images, other than rich people getting portraits. Almost no action shots because if they moved the photograph would blur. Picture was the first photograph of a person. Fox talbot developed technique of capturing light on emulsified film, make a negative and make multiple copies.