Artistic media the camera arts/ART 102/Introduction

Introduction to the Camera Arts

Alfred Stieglitz, The Hand of Man, 1902. Platinum, 16.2 x 21.3 cm, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

The invention of the camera and its ability to capture an image with light became the first “high tech” artistic medium of the Industrial Age. Developed during the middle of the nineteenth century, the photographic process changed forever our physical perception of the world and created an uneasy but important relationship between the photograph and other more traditional artistic media.