Development of the Photograph
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The industrial revolution brought about massive technological change over a period of decades and continued this trend to the present day. The changes brought about in technology influences the development of new means of communication, contributing to the rise of the mass media and the art and craft of photography. In turn, this would have a profound effect on the growing middle class, bringing images, pictures, text, and ultimately sound and the moving image directly to millions of people who in the past would have been denied access to the information so provided. This meant a change from a society where knowledge was held by relatively few to a society where knowledge was accessible to almost everyone, and eventually this would lead to the information age in which we now find ourselves, an age where the media and technology have conspired to provide ready access to a world of information to almost every man, woman, and child. Consider only one aspect of the matter, the invention and development of the photograph in the nineteenth century and the way it was affected by the industrial revolution and changes in technology at that time and the way photography would later influence the development of modernism and Pop Art in the twentieth century. The creation of the photographic image was a case of a new technology developing the means to capture and record images from the real world in a way that had never been possible before. The daguerreotype was the first type of
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tographic image. It can be seen in a number of photographs from the nineteenth century showing different aspects of artistic expression and of the way technology has opened new possibilities. The photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron of Sir John Herschel from 1867 provides a compelling psychological portrait that reveals the inner being of the subject. The photographs taken by Matthew Brady, such as Dunker Church and the Dead from 1862, brought the Civil War to the public in a way that no war had ever been brought out before. The starkness of the images was a function of the subject matter and the technical capabilities and limitations of the photographic process of the time:
Brady's photographic documentation had a profound impact upon the public's romantic ideal of war. Battlefield photographs joined artist's sketches as reference materials for wood-engraved magazine and newspaper illustrations.
One of the more famous uses of the photograph in the nineteenth century was a precursor of a new medium for the twentieth century. The series of photographs taken by Edward Muybridge of The Horse in Motion in 1878 placed the technological capabilities of the camera in service of a scientific inquiry into the way the horse ru
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Timothy O'Sullivan, Nicéphore Niepce, , Langdon Coburn, Horse Motion, Mandé Daguerre, Civil War, Pop Art, Sleeping Woman, Alphabet Squares, nineteenth century, photographic image, twentieth century, modern movement, industrial revolution, artistic expression, photograph nineteenth century, necessarily reality, university press, pop art, camera obscura,
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