Post #10 – Lecture – Photography and Printed Media

    The camera obscura was first used as "optical mechanical aid". In its first few years of use, artists have used it to help in their observation in nature. The way the camera obscura worked was by light passing through its lens (or pinhole) onto transparent paper, upside-down. Personally, I think the physics of how a photograph appears from the camera obscura upside-down is rather peculiar, especially in comparison to today's cameras that take pictures on the right side. Many different camera designs followed this camera obscura. In 1839, Louis Daguerre would invent the daguerreotype, which would receive some "swift negative reactions from conservative circles." 

DISCUSSION:

In the present days, we have removed the criteria of religion in art, but we still utilize the churches and praise the art that were both created back in the days of the Renaissance. We no longer focus solely on perfectly detailed art, and we consider practically anything as art, even an upside-down urinal. Impressionists were people whose abstract art was rejected by the critics at the time. Surrealism was a way of creating fantastical unrealistic art. Back then, we had very limited supplies to create our art. Nowadays, we have plenty of shops to purchase such supplies. Besides, art can be created with simple, everyday objects. Photographs could also be copied with much more ease as Gutenberg's printing press. In sculptures, there is also more movement integrated into sculptures, depicting that the sculpture is more lively. We now have the freedom to create whatever art we wish, using whatever items we choose.