Painting and Photography, 1839-1914

Painting and Photography, 1839-1914
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Publisher : Flammarion-Pere Castor
Total Pages : 336
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ISBN-10 : UCSD:31822038737755
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Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Synopsis Painting and Photography, 1839-1914 by : Dominique de Font-Réaulx

This book examines the impact that photography's birth and development had on the classical art form of painting. It provides exploration by genre -- from portraiture and still life to landscapes, tableaux vivantes, and nudes -- of the various issues triggered by the encounter between 19th century pictorial creation and the invention of photography.

The Painted Photograph, 1839-1914

The Painted Photograph, 1839-1914
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Publisher : Penn State University Press
Total Pages : 260
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015036082710
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Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis The Painted Photograph, 1839-1914 by : Heinz K. Henisch

As photography grew more popular following its invention in 1839, its admirers did not understand how a medium that rendered shapes and textures in exquisite detail could fail to render them in realistic color. Also disappointing was the tendency of the captured images to fade over time. Photographers, ever eager to please their public, began "painting" their photographs with substances ranging from water colors and oil to chalk and crayon. Images were enlarged, enhanced, and framed, to simulate the splendors of the traditional portrait. With its rich variety of illustrations in color and duotone, The Painted Photograph is the first comprehensive history of overpainting, from its origins to World War I. The 131 illustrations featured draw upon original nineteenth- and early twentieth-century sources, most from America and Britain, but also representing Japan, Turkey, Austria, Germany, Poland, Canada, Bohemia, India, Australia, Norway, Holland, and Russia. In describing a multitude of early techniques, the authors survey overpainting on various types of photographs, including daguerreotypes, tintypes, and imprinted porcelain, milk glass, enamel, magic lantern slides, and textiles. Particularly fascinating are discussions of overpainted death portraits, most commonly those of children, and the origins of popular "picture postcards" featuring overpainted landscape scenes. The Henisches address also the eager acceptance of the painted photograph throughout the world, despite the hostility of the art-critical establishment. The Painted Photograph will appeal to a wide public interested in photography, history, sociology, social anthropology, folk art, popular fashion, and antiques.

Before Photography

Before Photography
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 151
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:641135521
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Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis Before Photography by : Peter Galassi (Museumskurator.)

The Painted Face

The Painted Face
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 44
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ISBN-10 : 9780300111187
ISBN-13 : 0300111185
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis The Painted Face by : Tamar Garb

The meaning of a painted portrait and even its subject may be far more complex than expected, Tamar Garb reveals in this book. She charts for the first time the history of French female portraiture from its heyday in the early nineteenth century to its demise in the early twentieth century, showing how these paintings illuminate evolving social attitudes and aesthetic concerns in France over the course of the century. The author builds the discussion around six canonic works by Ingres, Manet, Cassatt, Cézanne, Picasso, and Matisse, beginning with Ingres’s idealized portrait of Mme de Sennones and ending with Matisse’s elegiac last portrait of his wife. During the hundred years that separate these works, the female portrait went from being the ideal genre for the expression of painting’s capacity to describe and embellish “nature,” to the prime locus of its refusal to do so. Picasso’s Cubism, and specifically Ma Jolie, provides the fulcrum of this shift.

Reasoned and Unreasoned Images

Reasoned and Unreasoned Images
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Publisher : Penn State Press
Total Pages : 281
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ISBN-10 : 9780271052595
ISBN-13 : 0271052597
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis Reasoned and Unreasoned Images by : Josh Ellenbogen

"Examines three projects in late nineteenth-century scientific photography: the endeavors of Alphonse Bertillon, Francis Galton, and Etienne-Jules Marey. Develops new theoretical perspectives on the history of photographic technology, as well as the history of scientific imaging more generally"--

The Silver Canvas

The Silver Canvas
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Publisher : Getty Publications
Total Pages : 258
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ISBN-10 : 9780892365364
ISBN-13 : 0892365366
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis The Silver Canvas by : Bates Lowry

By the middle of the nineteenth century, the most common method of photography was the daguerreotype—Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre’s miraculous invention that captured in a camera visual images on a highly polished silver surface through exposure to light. In this book are presented nearly eighty masterpieces—many never previously published—from the J. Paul Getty Museum’s extensive daguerreotype collection.

Odalisques and Arabesques

Odalisques and Arabesques
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Total Pages : 378
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105123372844
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Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis Odalisques and Arabesques by : Ken Jacobson

Ken Jacobson shows that the history of Orientalist photography begins weeks after the invention of photography itself. Jacobson is not an academic, but has conducted a great deal of scholarly research on the often obscure careers of photographers and the intertwined histories of the Levantine studios. He demonstrates that many of the past criticisms of Orientalist photography are based on ignorance either of chronology or technology.

The Photographic Experience, 1839Ð1914: Images and Attitudes

The Photographic Experience, 1839Ð1914: Images and Attitudes
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Publisher : Penn State Press
Total Pages : 484
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ISBN-10 : 0271044497
ISBN-13 : 9780271044491
Rating : 4/5 (97 Downloads)

Synopsis The Photographic Experience, 1839Ð1914: Images and Attitudes by :

The Photographic Experience deals with episodes and issues relating to the spread and practice of photography from its beginnings to World War I. Bridget and Heinz Henisch concern themselves with the reception accorded to the new art by professionals, amateurs, and the general public. They examine reactions to the new invention in the press, literature, poetry, music, and fashion; the response of intellectuals and painters; and the beliefs held by prominent photographers concerning the nature of the medium and its mission. With a wide array of images - many never before published - they illustrate the photograph's use as a record of public and private moments in life.

Photography and the Art of Chance

Photography and the Art of Chance
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 409
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ISBN-10 : 9780674744004
ISBN-13 : 0674744004
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis Photography and the Art of Chance by : Robin Kelsey

As anyone who has wielded a camera knows, photography has a unique relationship to chance. It also represents a struggle to reconcile aesthetic aspiration with a mechanical process. Robin Kelsey reveals how daring innovators expanded the aesthetic limits of photography in order to create art for a modern world.