Photographic Context & History (Ongoing)

TERMS & CONTEXT
ISO

In Digital Photography ISO measures the sensitivity of the image sensor. The same principles apply as in filmphotography – the lower the number the less sensitive your camera is to light and the finer the grain. Higher ISO settings are generally used in darker situations to get faster shutter speeds.

Bokeh 
Japanese word for senility or dizziness, and by extinction, haze or blur
Background blur w/shadow plane of focus (Wide Aperture)
The shape of bokeh is determined 

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



ALFRED STIEGLITZ
1864-1946
US
Important figure in promoting photography as a viable art form
Was a publisher, patron, collector, gallery owner, promoter..... of all kinds of art
Married to the painter Georgia 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."



EDWARD STEICHEN
1879-1973
Luxembourgish
"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.
~ He was one of the first people in the United States to use the Autochrome Lumière process.