COMS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Frederick Scott Archer, Photographic Paper, Egg White

• School: McGill University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMS 200
• Professor: Christopher Gutierrez

Document Summary

Lecture 8 may 17: photography and art relationship to painting and its documentation of the world, photography and history, photography and memory, politics of images question of what images and photography do [visuality as political] Photography as a reproduction of man that should not be possible. Man is made in the image of god, and god"s image cannot be captured by any machine of human devising (standanzeiger) Camera obscura: a darkened box with a convex lens or aperture for projecting the image of an external object onto a screen inside. It is important historically in the development of photography. Daguerre"s photographs were iodized silver plates exposed in the camera obscura basically one of a kind (benjamin) The photograph changed people"s idea of time. Degaurrotype: the rst photographs, both a negative and a positive, rst commercial camera. One of a kind image, particularly permanent and slow. The an aura/ presence that is then transferred upon the plate.