THE PHOTOGRAPHY PART 2

·         MAN RAY:

1.       Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp didn´t spoke the same lenguaje but they archived to comunícate.

2.       He made evocative pictures of ordinary objets.

3.       He photograped a kitchen mixter and an assemblage of objets from his darkroom, he called these two pictures man and woman.

4.       Ray said: “If I would had the nerve and I have become a thief or a gangster sice I didn´t I became a photographer.

5.       The complex compositions that he make with rail graph.

·         WILLIAM HENRY FOX TALBOT:

1.       He was terrible at drawing.

2.       William started using plants to create his “son pictures”.

3.       He recived the royal medal for his work in calculus.

4.       He published the first book ever to be ilustrated with photographs : “ The pencil of nature” in 1844.

5.       He helped to desipher ancient cunieform.

·         CHARLETON WATKINS:

1.       His camera chemicals and glass plates weight nearly a ton.

2.       Watkins pictures provided a first glimpse of the assambly´s waterfalls and giant sequoias.

3.       Isaiah Tabor printed and sold all the negatives of Watkins with his own trade mark.

4.       In his 40 years career he had printed more than 1,400 mammoth plate photos and 5000 stereo graphs.

5.       He died poor. But today is regarded as the greatest photographer of the american west.

·         EDWARD MUYBRIDGE:

1.       Edward began his career making pictures of Yosmite taking his bulky camera and portable darkroom throught the valleys rought terrain to the high peaks where he could capture the landscapes dramatic heights and plunging chasms.

2.        To archive the shots he wanted he took his camera out to the precipices.

3.       He experimented with the optical gadgets of the time: zoetrope ,sametrope and phenakistocope.

4.       He created ZOIA praxis scope.

5.       He killed Harry Larkyns who conducted an affair with Muybridge´s wife.

·         JULIA  MARGARET CAMERON:

1.       She was 48 years old when she recived her first camera.

2.       She portrait Charles Drawing.

3.       She produce some of the most subtle and sophisticated portraits of her day

4.       His first book of photos appeared nearly 50 ears later published by her great grandniece.

5.       The mirky shadows and the very shallow  Depth of field which gave her pictrures a dramatic dreamlike quality .