What´up people?
Wellcome to the art channel
Today our video is dedicated
to photography subjects
of course about artistic photography.
You know sometimes I took
inspiration
in some paragraphs I read in different books
and I got ideas to prepare new videos.
Really this video
is inspired in some paragraphs
of this book written by Jose Jimenez
here you have "Crítica del mundo imagen"
I think this book is very, very, very
advisable
because I took not only
this part dedicated to photography
but we will dedicate a couple of videos
to important subjects
of this book and
 
probaly we dedicate a complete video
to talk about the book
For me the image is an interesting subject
I talked about it
in my book that you can see around
Arte, estética Freak y medios de comunicación. This is to say
the use of image or how the image was used in the past
and how we use image nowdays
thanks to mass media or social networks
mainly. I would like to
to comment or talk about other book
El ver y las imágenes en el tiempo de internet
written by Juan Martín Prada who is an excellent book
to analyze our moment
where we
live
and related
with this ivasion of images
we can see everyday and we are
unable to hold because they cotinue come
through the screen
so fast
that is imposible to draw some conclusion
of any of them. That´s why these books
help us to know better where we come from
and where we are going
or what we have now and where we are walking
that is the idea.
So we talk a little bit about photography
we talk about photography before and now
and you tell me after your opinion.
We begin
Maybe one of the keys
of the impact that provoked the photography
in artist
from XIX and beginning of XX century
is summary in a notes that
the painter Eugene Delacorix wrote in his log
in 1853
The artist had done
an engravings and he treated to compare
with a photographic images of naked figures
with bad quality. Acording with his writting
he felt aversion and disgust for the engravings
and continue writting: if a genius
man used the daguerrotype
as a proper manner he would raise
to a height that unkown for us.
This can summarise
the photographic fact after the invention
and the exit for a lot of artists
that took
far for the photographic claim
and beginnig a new
path for the art because
the imposibility of compete with
the photographic perfection with any representation.
The first photography in history
is a view from a window
is a plate taken by Joseph Niepce
in 1826
with a dark box he made it with an exposure
time around 8 hours
We need to remember that photography
is a technical and chemical process.
This first picture was treated with polish from Judea
although the image is blur,
full of dots
and is so difficult for us appreciate the landscape we have.
Definitely this method is the first
but with a big time of exposure
is complicated to succeed.
The real promoter of photographer
who counted with the support of the french goverment
in the spreading of the invention was
Louis Daguerre, who used plates
with iodine silver printed and attacked
with mercury vapors
and the image little by little appeared
The invention was so popular
all over the world
and one of the keys is the time of exposure
that is to say from the eight hours of the first photography,
now is possible in a couple of minutes.
Some people needed a support
to wait that time meanwhile a portrait was taken,
but the result was worthwhile
and is a new fashion.
Everybody wanted to have a portrait
of the different members of the family
individual or group portrait
and they wanted at home
Painters and people who paint portrait went bust
or decided to open photography studios
buying the necessary material
to continue with this new
and exciting adventure.
Photography got into fashion,
after the Daguerrotype, Willian Fox Talbot
was capable to fix the image
directly on a paper
with an invention called callotype
who was used by one of the best
portrait photographers of XIX century, his name was David Octavius Hill.
José Jiménez professor
says that thanks to photgraphy
the world is an images archive.
Maybe now with distance
we appreciate the old photography as a poetic style
that not only represents a person or an object
who turned in something iconic,
was and act of possessing.
Phoography in the past, as
Philipe Debois said, was a destacable event,
not only by the circunstances but
the way to share that occured years ago,
inviting people
to see the pictures
and comment about them.
I just want to say that in the past
compare with the new way to share,
where the personal relation has been abandoned
and we share only through a screen.
We can shot with our cell phone
anything,
with our cameras,
with an infinite blast that finally
make us to select an image that we thought
is able to obtain more likes or hearts on instagram.
That is the new way
to share, who has been changed
in just information. The iconic act
of photography is out of order.
Susan Sontag talked about photography
as an event. She said that
photography is an event by it´s way
and talked in her writtings about appropriation.
We appropriate of the thing we shot.
In many cases the consumer society
doesn´t allow us to possess many of the objects
produced because of their high price.
Photography allows us to substitute
that possession idea.
We can´t have it personally
but it´s possible to get photographies of the object
to contemplate again and again.
 
Talking about this Walter Benjamin wrote in his book
"The work of art in the age of
mechanical reproduction",
when, in a critical way, said that
everyday comes into effect
the necessity of taking over the objects,
in a nearly way,
the image, the copy, the reproduction.
Benjamin critizices
the consumer society and its expansion,
that nowdays is out of control.
Tiny news
to renovate and completely
unnecessary.
Susan Sontag says that photography
allow us to mantein a special relation with the world
is an exchange of knowlegde
and a power exchange.
If we apply these words to the amount of selfies
that everyday we can see in social networks
maybe our heart will be in our boots.
The selfie
doesn´t seem a knowledge exchange but an expression
of vanity,
looking only for an interaction,
where those 15 minutos of fame that Andy Warhol talked has turn in milliseconds.
Susan Sontag talked about the cameras
as time instruments,
where there are interesting events
to photograph. It is good
to establish a reflection about the meaning of this sentence
I just said.
Photography was a discovery who changed
the way we understand art since mid XIX.
The emergence of modernity
and the different avant-gardes has much to do with
with this new invention,
that was in continuous progress since that time,
to offer us first sequenced images in movement
and after the first cinematographic
images, where
you didn´t need only one sense to appreciate what we have
in front of us but 2.
It was a moment full of new inventions
and artistic manifests,
where the photographic image played a major role,
but it would be good to make a little consideration
about the role at that time
of photography and how was capable to start a revolution
in the artistic fact and the role that plays nowdays
after the
democratization of cell phones
and what happened with the majority of photos.
Is it a new revolution?
How we use photography nowdays?
Is it, as Susan Sontag said, a
special event or it turns into a cumulated loop
that never ends?
Can we talk about an artistic fact?
Or is reduced
to a single archive with a number
in the hard drive of our computer or cell phone?
It is good to think about that. To me
is important to know your opinion
about the current use that we give to photography and the contributions of cell phones
to this technique,
to improve or became worse
Well people, this is our video today
I hope you like it
I want to know your opinion
about this subject and the use of image
and photography. You can leave comments
I read everyone and we can
create a dialogue
 
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