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Can Photography be regarded as a valid Artform?
This entire article is © James
Wakefield 2002.
Reproduction Prohibited. All Rights Reserved.
Section Eight: Bold Type referred to in Article
291 - Also known as the Photo-Secession Movement;
founded by Alfred Stieglitz in 1905 to help photography become
more widely accepted as an art form.
Archer, Frederick Scott - Perfected Talbot's Calotype
process with the Collodion Process which substantially reduced
exposure times and the cost of producing photos.
Baudelaire, Charles - Critic of photography when it
first became popular claiming it was 'satanic' to reproduce
a creation of God perfectly onto paper.
Calotype - Photographic process created by William
Henry Fox Talbot in early 1840's that revolutionised photography
and is still the basic foundation of film photography today.
Close, Chuck - Realist painter who first photographs
his subject and then recreates the photograph onto canvas,
so realistically that it looks like a huge photograph.
Collodion Process - Developed by Frederick Scott Archer
as an improvement on the Calotype process by reducing exposure
times and cost substantially.
Daguerre, Louis - One of the founding fathers of photography.
A scientist who perfected Niepce's process to initially reduce
the exposure time to thirty minutes. Also discovered the first
fixant - salt.
Daguerreomania - Craze that developed from Daguerre's
creation the Daguerreotype.
Daguerreotype - Name given to photographs made with
the process developed by Louis Daguerre.
Dry Plate Process - Succeeded the Wet Plate Process
with the use of Gelatin in film allowing photos to be made
without cumbersome wet plates, on site darkroom tents and
specialised knowledge.
George Eastman - Founder of Eastman Kodak, the most
recognised photo brand in the world; and the creator of the
Kodak Box Camera & flexible film (1888) which revolutionised
the whole world by bringing photography to the masses.
Gelatin - First used as the basis for film by Dr Richard
Maddox, eradicating the cumbersome wet plate process and opening
photography to a whole new world of possibilities with 'dry
plates'.
Goldsworthy, Andrew - Artist whose creations are entirely
natural in deserted places and would therefore be impossible
to 'exhibit' without the aid of photography.
Hockney, David - Internationally acclaimed artist whose
name comes to mind when exploring the issue of photography
as art thanks to his huge, slightly disorganised photo montages
which he, and most of his followers, regard as 'art' without
hesitation.
Maddox, Dr Richard - Decided to use Gelatin as the
base of a photographic plate eradicating the cumbersome wet
plate process and opening photography to a whole new world
of possibilities with 'dry plates'.
Nadar - French caricaturist who first used photography
as the basis for satirical portraiture, later acknowledging
the photographs as artworks in their own right.
Niepce - Recorded the first successful photograph in
1827, requiring an eight hour exposure! Photo-Secession Movement
- Also known as '291'; founded by Alfred Stieglitz in 1905
to help photography become more widely accepted as an art
form.
Ray, Man - Very famous photographer and artist who
painted what he couldn't photograph, and photographed what
he couldn't paint.
Realism - Style of painting that was very popular before
the rise of photography as it accurately represented the subject
on canvas, a job that the camera soon overtook.
Stieglitz, Alfred - One of the most influential photographers
in history who fought all his life to ensure photography was
accepted as 'Art'.
Stein, Gertrude - Writer who admitted the concepts
that developed from photography (different 'ways of seeing')
extended to writing. It allowed writers to explore details
and objects that would not even have entered their heads were
it not for photography.
Talbot, William Henry Fox - Creator of the Calotype,
which revolutionised photography.
Tillmans, Alfred - Winner of the 2000 Turner Art Prize
for one of his photographs.
Turner Prize - Awarded annually at the Tate Gallery
in London to an outstanding piece of art. Awarded to photographer
Alfred Tillmans in 2000 for a photographic image.
Wedgwood, Thomas - First person to successfully record
an image, but was unable to fix it. Weston, Edward - Artist
who used photography to create surreal images concentrating
on the aesthetics of an object as opposed to the object in
it's own right.
Wet Plate Process - The first widely used photographic
process which required cumbersome wet plates, on site darkroom
tents and specialised knowledge. Succeeded by the dry plate
process when it was discovered Gelatin could be used in film.
Williams, William Carlos - Writer who admitted the
concepts that developed from photography (different 'ways
of seeing') extended to writing. It allowed writers to explore
details and objects that would not even have entered their
heads were it not for photography.
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