PHOTOGRAPHY WORDS & TERMS

AESTHETIC - the qualities that combine to make something look the way it does.

Iv'e always been drawn to Chris Burkard's work. The soft palatable colors combined with vibrant natural light makes for a masterful scene.


CAMERA OBSCURA - a blacked-out chamber with a small hole through which light is compressed through.

 



EXPOSURE - length of time light enters the camera.
OVER EXPOSURE - too much light
UNDER EXPOSURE - too little light

FOCAL POINT - the center of interest/activity.

EXPOSURE TRIANGLE: 

APERTURE - the opening (into the camera). 

SHUTTER - mechanism that allows light to enter the camera for a precise period of time.

 ISO - the sensitivity (to light) of the sensor/film

APERTURE:

APERTURE & DEPTH OF FIELD - Aperture is the size of the opening into the camera, and the larger the aperture the smaller sliver of focus you will have. 

EXAMPLES OF A CHANGE IN APERTURE:

ISO:

The sensitivity of the camera. 

WHITE BALANCE:

The temperature of the color being photographed. 

HISTORY & ARTISTS:

JOSEPH NICEPHORE NIEPCE

Made the first photograph in 1827.

The exposure time was approx. EIGHT hours.

View From The Window At Le Gras, France, 1827.

FIRST PHOTO OF A PERSON - 1838

by Louis Daguerre (Daguerreotype)

Boulevard du Temple, Paris

FIRST "SELFIE"

Robert Cornelius. 1839

Amateur chemist & photography enthusiast.

Philadelphia 

MATHEW BRADY

Civil War photographer 1860s

One of the first events where the public saw casualties of war printed in newspapers.

EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE

1830-1904

English

Pioneer in photographing motion.

Created the zoopraxiscope (1879) 

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ART THEORY & AESTHETICS:

CONTRAST = the difference between light and dark

VALUE = the intensity of a color (or the BW)

HUE = the color

TINT = adding white to a hue

SHADE = adding black to a hue

EDWARD CURTIS

1868-1952

Photographer & ethnologist.

Focused on documenting the American West & Native American people. 

JACOB RIIS
1849-1914

Grew up in poverty.

Considered to be a 'father' of photojournalism. 

Photographed the tenements/slums of NYC to raise awareness of the plight of the poor.

DOROTHEA LANGE

1895-1965

Documentary photographer & photojournalist.

Began as portraitist (in a studio).

During the Great Depression (1930s), worked for the Farm Securities Administration to document the plight of the poor & forgotten. 

During WWII, documented the plight of Japanese-American citizens who were forced into internment camps. The photos were not seen during the war.

PLEDGE

BREADLINE

MIGRANT MOTHER

HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON

1908-2004

A master of street photography.

Known for the decisive moment = The moment when visual and psychological elements come together in the photo.

ART THEORY & AESTHETICS:

CONTRAST= the difference between light & dark

VALUE= the intensity of a color (or the BW).

HUE= the color

TINT= adding black to a hue

RULE OF THIRDS

A compositional theory where the main subject matter is placed in an intersecting point based on a 

GORDON PARKS

1912-2006

Significant photographer of the Civil Rights Movement

MANUEL ÁLVAREZ BRAVO

1902-2002

Pioneer of artistic photography in Mexico.

Most important figure in 20th-century Latin American photography. 

Captured the history of Mexican society and culture through street photography, folk art & rituals, human interaction.