2. History of Photography
Today’s plan
A little post-modern philosophy
Visual neurology and understanding
How news organisations are utilising images
Truth?
Skills: what to consider when taking images
Social and visual value
3. A little history
Ancient to 1700s: camera obscura
1727: Professor J Schulze creates first photo-sensitive
compound
1834: Henry Fox Talbert creates negative images using
photo-sensitive paper: used contact printed to reverse
the negative
1839:Louis Daguerre creates images on silver-plated
copper: images created in minutes and photography
enters public consciousness
1861: James Clark Maxwell develops first colour
photograph
1878: Eadweard Muybridge uses multiple cameras and
tripwires to assess how a horse gallops, canters, walks
1900: Kodak releases Brownie: inexpensive reloadable camera
1948: Polaroid instant camera introduced
1957: First digital image scanned
1973: first large image forming CCD chip introduced
1986: Kodak produces first megapixel camera
2000: J-Phone: first mobile phone equipped with a
camera
2004: Flickr created
2008: Polaroid announces discontinuation of instant
film products
2010: Instagram created
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4. Roland Barthes (and his mum)
Introduced a semiotic approach to
photographic imagery
Photography changed the nature of
the visual representation: painting
wasn’t real. Photograph relied on a
real occurrence
Images also questions of the nature
of the ‘thing’ that displayed the
image (photograph), the ‘thing’ in the
image (subject) and the individual
interpreting the image (the
spectator)
Disrupts time. A photograph is both
present and past
5. Walter Benjamin
Offers an alternative way of
understanding the world, the
now and the individual
“Immerse yourself in a picture
long enough and you will
recognise how alive the
contradictions are, here too:
the most precise technology
can give its products a
magical value”
1931
6. Image Neurology: Maria Elizabeth Grabe
“Biological primacy of vision”
How the image is received and
processed by the brain
Visual communications and
empathic responses
23. Flickr and Instagram
•Building and engaging with communities of interest
•Direct upload to your audience
•Embedding
•Slideshows
•Tagging
•Searchable text
32. Using images: copyright
Respect copyright
Utilise Creative Commons
image libraries
Ask permission if you’re unsure
Media libraries are also offered
by lots of organisations
DON’T RIGHT CLICK, COPY
AND PASTE FROM GOOGLE!
33. Flickr credits
Mark J P
Tazrian Khan
Untitled
pradeep_kumbhashi
Loneliness
peddhapati
scary pumpkin
