"You press the button, we do the rest." Creator of Kodak cameras, George Eastman said this in 1888. Cameras were only available to professional photographers, but Eastman created a kodak film roll that can take about 100 exposures. This way, even regular people can take advantage of the camera and carry it around in their hands. The customer uses the kodak camera and returns it to the company to receive clear prints.
If a camera can capture images perfectly, then what is the point of art? When new technology and advancements were made, there was a talk about how photography might take over the beauty of art. A photograph gives you an image of the real world, while art is all about color and interpretation in one artists mind. In the image above, you can see how the photograph is very dull but realistic. The painting seems to have a unique creativity that the artist chose himself. It has color and idea to it by changing its style.
http://lcni.uoregon.edu/~mark/Marks_photos/stereo_pairs/Apollo_moon/as12-49-7318_AstroOptiMax_comparison.jpg
Nice post GG,
ReplyDeleteI find the quote from the creator of kOdak said very interesting since in todays world it changed so much. Its interesting on how much the camera grew with technology. Now it is simply not just the click of one button, you can now zoom and focus and learn very cool other tricks to improve the quality of the photo. Very neat!
I agree that painting a colored picture of a black and white photograph can add to the effect of the artwork, making it more interesting, informative and visually appealing. However, during the time where color photographs were not yet being taken, colored paintings of black and white photographs most likely distorted the original meaning or beauty of the picture. If artists were using any colors they wanted to, how can viewers be sure that they what they are looking at accurately depicts the original scene? I'm not saying this is always a bad thing, but there were probably a lot of paintings that were derived from black and white pictures that completely distorted what the photographer was actually taking a picture of.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Dylan. Even though the Kodak camera had come out, it wasn't close to capturing reality in any sense. The quality was low, images looked distorted and unclear, and the camera most certainly did not and to this day cannot "capture images perfectly" [assuming that by perfectly you mean, 'equivalent to that of the human eye' (which is far from perfect, might i add)]. Furthermore, I think it is interesting to take into account digital editing that we can now do today. We can produce photo realistic images purely off of the computer, through CG programs like Adobe Photoshop. This may render photography even more obsolete, as we can easily create images on the computer now as well.
ReplyDeleteAdding on to what Cy said, the idea of photo editing today can be related to the way that artists painted colored pictures of black and white photos. This is because by computer editing, the "artist" can distort colors and shapes to his/her liking, much like a painter could distort the black and white image they were interpreting. So, at both the black and white stage of photography as well as the modern stage, artwork can be heavily modified to offer an alternative view of the original image.
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