Friday, August 27, 2010

Introduction, Photography, and Realism



Nicephore Niepce, The First Photograph, 1826




Louis Daguerre, Boulevard du Temple, Paris, photograph, 1839




William Henry Fox Talbot, The Open Door, photograph (calotype), 1843



Edward Muybridge, Galloping Horse, photograph, 1878




The Eiffel Tower, 1888 - 1889 (photographed here in 1889)





Gustave Courbet, Burial at Ornans, 1849




Gustave Courbet, Stonebreakers, 1849




Jean-Francois Millet, The Gleaners, 1857





Thomas Eakins, Max Schmidt in a Single Scull, 1871





Thomas Eakins, The Gross Clinic





Henry Ossawa Tanner, The Thankful Poor





Edouard Manet, Dejeuner sur l"Herbe (Luncheon on the Grass), 1863






Edouard Manet, Olympia





Edouard Manet, Bar at the Folies Bergere





PHOTOGRAPHY AND REALISM

Photography
--Nicephore Niepce
--Louis Daguerre
--William Henry Fox Talbot
-------calotype
The Eiffel Tower
Industry
The Bourgeoisie
1848 Revolutions
Realism
--Gustave Courbet
-----positivism
--Jean-Francois Millet
--Thomas Eakins
--Henry Ossawa Tanner
The Salon
Charles Baudelaire
Edouard Manet
--Salon des Refuses, 1863

Read Chapter 2 in the textbook (History of Modern Art by Arnason and Mansfield)






Climbing the Eiffel Tower with the Lumiere Brothers

One of the earliest films by the inventors of the motion picture, a ride up the elevator of the Eiffel Tower in Paris in 1898.