Post #11 – Reading and GRQs – Margot Lovejoy – The Camera as Artificial Eye and the Influence of Tools

I thought the camera obscura was a very intriguing invention in its time. While today's cameras are vastly improved versions of this early design, the mechanics of how it captured photographs was very interesting. The long process of wetting a silver plate, installing it into the camera obscura, and waiting until the perfect hour to take the shot. Sometimes, it was not even a perfect shot; It could either be too dark or too bright to make anything out in the shot. 

1.)    Camera obscura, Camera Obscura

2.)    Light-sensitive chemistry

3.)    Daguerreotype

4.)    Negative/Positive

5.)    "Aura"

6.)    Commodity value

7.)    Exhibition value

8.)    Cult value, Cult value

9.)    Photomontage

10.)    Appropriated elements

11.)    Cinematography

12.)    Photomechanical reproduction

13.)    Eadweard Muybridge

14.)    Jules-Etienne Marey

15.)    The Dadaists

16.)    Heartfield

17.)    Walter Benjamin