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Week 6 Notes: "The Multiplication and Circulation of Images"

• Walter Benjamin "A Small History of Photography" (OR)
  • author of "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" and "Author as Producer"
  • photography was ripe for invention (overdetermined)
  • Arago links the invention with all aspects of human activity
  • from debates over "photograph as art" to "art as photograph"
  • The optical unconscious
  • aura: unique experience of time/space and distance
  • reproduction, closeness, and political experience (the shift in value associated with images)
  • context, the caption, the serial image, and montage

   

• Marita Sturken and Lisa Cartwright, "Chapter 4: Reproduction and Visual Technologies" (PL)
  • the history of realism
    • perspective and conventions for depicting space
    • cartesian space
  • the enlightenment, science and the visual
  • digital imaging
    • the virtual: altered space/time relationships
    • changing ideas about authorship and ownership
    • interactivity
    • fluidity between visualization and other process

• Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre: A Parisian Boulevard, 1839
• William Henry Fox Talbot: The Open Door, 1843
• Oscar Rejlander: The Two Paths of Life, 1857
• Calling Cards / Cartes de Visite :
  • Sitting Bull
  Sojourner Truth
• Nadar: Portrait of Charles Baudelaires, 1863
• Nadar The Sewers 1864-65
• Nadar Sarah Bernhardt 1865
• Timothy H. O'Sullivan: Ancient Ruins in the Canon de Chelley, Arizona, 1873
• Gustave Courbet: The Stone Breakers, 1849
• Claude Monet: Impression, Sunrise, 1872
• Claude Monet: Impression, Sunrise, 1873
• Pablo Picasso: Au Bon Marche, 1912-13
• Pablo Picasso: A Bottle of Suze, 1912
• Piet Mondrian: Horizontal Tree, 1911
• Giacomo Balla: Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash, 1912
• Umberto Boccioni: Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, 1913
• Eadweard Muybridge: Fall of the Yosemite River, Seen from Glacier Point, 1872
• Eadweard Muybridge Galloping Horse 1878
• Eadweard Muybridge Ascending Stairs 1884-85
• Eadweard Muybridge Striking a blow with right hand 1884-85
• Eadweard Muybridge Wrestling: Graeco-Roman 1884-85
• Eadweard Muybridge Descending stairs and turning around 1884-85
• Eadweard Muybridge Walking and throwing a handkerchief over shoulders 1884-85
• Eadweard Muybridge Turning around in surprise and running away 1884-85
• Eadweard Muybridge Child bringing a bouquet to a woman 1884-85
• Eadweard Muybridge Head-spring, a Flying Pigeon Interfering 1885
• Eadweard Muybridge Movement of the hand, drawing a circle 1887
• Jacques-Henri Lartigue Car Trip, Papa at 80 kilometers an hour 1913
• Chronophotography
• Jacques Henri Lartigue Zissou Rouzat (tube raft), 1911
• Eugene Atget Rue du Maure c. 1908
• Eugene Atget Un Coin du quai de la Tournelle, 5e arrondissement 1910-11
• Eugene Atget Rue des Ursins 1923
• Eugene Atget F�te du Trone de Geant 1925
• Eugene Atget Coin de la Rue Valette et Pantheon 1925
• Eugene Atget: Magasin, Avenue des Gobelins, 1925
• Karl Blossfeldt Impatiens glandulifera Indian balsam Stem with branches, life-sized
• Karl Blossfeldt Impatiens glandulifera Indian balsam Stem with branches, life-sized
• Karl Blossfeldt Aristolochia clematitis Birthwort Stem with leaf magnified eight times
• Karl Blossfeldt Delphinium Larkspur Part of a dried leaf magnified six times
• Karl Blossfeldt Aesculus parviflora Horse chesnut Branch tips magnified twelve times
• Karl Blossfeldt Adiantum pedatum Maiden-hair fern Young curled fronds magnified eight times
• Karl Blossfeldt Forsythia suspensa Tip of a forsythia twig with buds Magnified ten times
• Karl Blossfeldt Laserpitum siler Laserwort Part of a fertilizing cluster magnified four times
• Karl Blossfeldt Nigella damascena
• Imogen Cunningham The Dream 1910
• Imogen Cunningham Magnolia Blossom 1925
• Imogen Cunningham Datura n.d.
• Imogen Cunningham Succulent c. 1920s
• Imogen Cunningham Agave Design 2 c. 1920
• Harold Edgerton, "Antique Gun Firing", gelatin silver print.
• Harold Edgerton, "Bullet Card", ten dye transfer, 9"x11"
• Harold Edgerton, "Football Kick", ten dye transfer.
• Harold Edgerton, "Football Kick", black and white
• Harold Edgerton, "Bullet Apple",
• El Lissitzky: Constructor: Self-Portrait with Compass, c. 1924
• Alexander Rodchenko: At the Telephone, 1928
• Alexander Rodchenko: Notepad and Leica, 1920
• Alexander Rodchenko: Vchutemas, Courtyard: Gathering for Demonstration, 1928
• Alexander Rodchenko: AMO Factory Lunch Break, 1929
• Alexander Rodchenko: AMO Factory, 1929
• Hannah Hoch: Cut with the Kitchen Knife, 1919-20
• John Heartfield & Georg Grosz: Life and Activities in Universal City, 12:05 o'clock Midday, 1919
• John Heartfield: After Ten Years, Fathers and Sons, 1924
• John Heartfield: Adolf Hitler, Superman: He swallows gold and speaks garbage, 1932
• John Heartfield: A Small Man Pleads for Big Gifts, 1932
• John Heartfield: Oh Christmas Tree, How Crooked are your Branches, 1934
• John Heartfield: Have No Fear - He's a Vegetarian, 1936
• Sebasti�o Salgado Full view of the Serra Pelada gold mine Brazil, 1986
• Sebasti�o Salgado The Serra Pelada gold mine Brazil, 1986
• Man Ray: Rayograph, 1922
• David Hockney Nude (Theresa Russell), June 17, 1984
• Berenice Abbott Wall Street Showing East River 1938
• Cindy Sherman Untitled Film Still #7 1978
• Cindy Sherman Untitled Film Still #10 1978
• Cindy Sherman Untitled Film Still #13 1978
• Cindy Sherman Untitled Film Still #14 1978
• Cindy Sherman Untitled Film Still #15 1978
• Cindy Sherman Untitled Film Still #16 1978
• Cindy Sherman Untitled Film Still #21 1978
• Cindy Sherman Untitled Film Still #25 1978
• Cindy Sherman Untitled Film Still #35 1979
• Cindy Sherman Untitled Film Still #50 1979
• Cindy Sherman Untitled Film Still #53 1980
• Cindy Sherman Untitled #66 1980
• Cindy Sherman Untitled #71 1980
• Cindy Sherman Untitled #76 1980
• Cindy Sherman Untitled #86 1981
• Cindy Sherman Untitled #92 1981
• Cindy Sherman Untitled #153 1985