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HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY – 19TH CENTURY

Course Code:

Π-2060

Semester:

2st Semester

Specialization Category:

ΔΟΝΑ

Course Hours:

3

ECTS:

4


Learning outcomes

This course aims to make students capable:

  • To critically evaluate the events and happenings that preceded the history of photography.
  • Introduce them to the ways of analysis and composition used in researching the history of photography.
  • To understand the social and political-economic inevitability of the photographic invention in the specific historical period.
  • To learn about the possibilities of the photography from the way it spread during the 19th century.
  • To understand how the transition from the fixed to the moving image took place and how the cinema emerged.
  • To study the great historical and other possibilities of photography / document.
  • To find out through specific examples how the aesthetics of photographic imaging of each era is reflected in the decoration of the photographs where the photographic portrait took place.

 

General Competences

  • Understanding the peculiarities of the history of photography
  • Methods of analysis / synthesis of historical facts
  • Factors subjective, objective, political-economic / social that affect the historical event
  • Reporting and evaluation of events that preceded the photographic invention
  • The necessity of the photography

 

Course Outline

Lectures

  • Was the invention of photography a random event or a requirement of the times?
  • Inventions and “substitutes” of the photograph before its invention
  • Industrial revolution, urbanization & needs of cheap & “objective” representation
  • The chronicle of the invention. Reactions caused by the emergence of the photographic invention
  • Daguerreotype, calotype, other techniques of the first forty years.
  • The commercialization of the photo. Carte de visite photography
  • The “photographic” journeys
  • The portrait, the man and his (s) image.
  • NADAR’s life and work.
  • PHOTO-CLUBs, exhibitions, events and photographic activities of the period.
  • The simplification of the technique. The use of gelatin and the invention of the first amateur camera. Consequences.
  • References to the history of Greek photography of this period.

 

ATTACHED BIBLIOGRAPHY

  • Freund, Gisele. Translation: Eva Mavroeidi, Photography and Society, (Athens, PHOTOGRAPHOS publications), 1996
  • Xanthakis, Alkis. History of Greek Photography from 1839 to 1960 (Athens E.L.I.A., 1981)
  • Sontag, Susan. Translation: Hercules Papaioannou, On photography (Athens, PHOTOGRAPHOS publications), 1993
  • ROUILLE, André & LEMAGNY, Jean-Claude, Histoire de la photographie, Larousse, 1998.
  • Frizot, Michel, A New History of Photography, Cologne, Könemn , 1998.
  • Gernsheim, Alison & Helmut Gernsheim. The History of Photography from the Camera Obscura to the Beginning of the Modern Era. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1969.
  • Newhall, Beaumont, The History of Photography: From 1839 to the Present. New York, Museum of Modern Art, 2009.