PHOTOGRAPHIC CONTEXT & HISTORY(ongoing)

TERMS & CONTEXT

Bokeh

Japanese word for senility or dizziness, and by estension, haze or blur.
A background blur created with a shallow plane of focus(wide aperture).
The shape of bokeh is ditermaned by the shape of the aperture blades.
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Exposure Triangle

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Aperture:
True: the larger the aperture, the more the background will be out of focus
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ISO

The sensitivity of the film/sensor
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HISTORY

EUGÈNE ATGET

1857-1927
French
Known for his photographs of Paris streets, architecture, and the occasional person.
Long exposure times that create a dreamlike sense of light in his images.
Most of his work was only published after his death.





ALFRED STIEGLITZ

1864-1946
From the U.S.
Important figure in promoting photography as a viable form of art.
Publisher, patron, collector, gallery owner, promoter... of all kinds of art.
Married to painter Gerogia O'Keeffe

"I have always been a great believer in today. Most people live either in the past or in the future, so that they really never live at all. So many people are busy worrying about the future of art or society, they have no time to preserve what is. Utopia is in the moment. Not in some future time, some other place, but in the here and now, or else it is nowhere."
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EDWARD STEICHEN
1879-1973
Luxembourgish-American


"Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product."

  • In 1894, at the age of fifteen, Steichen began a four-year lithography apprenticeship with the American Fine Art Company of Milwaukee.
  • During World War II, Steichen served as Director of the Naval Aviation Photographic Unit.
  • On December 6, 1963, Steichen was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
  • In February 2006, a print of Steichen's early pictorialist photograph, The Pond—Moonlight (1904), sold for what was then the highest price ever paid for a photograph at auction, U.S. $2.9 million. 

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