Form and content
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Art Appreciation and Techniques (#ART100) | |
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Artistic media: The camera arts | Overview | Introduction | Early development | Impact on other media | Form and content | Darkroom processes | The human element | Color images | Photojournalism | Modern developments | Film, video and digital | Summary |
The darkroom became the studio of the photographer. It was there where visual ideas translated into images: an opportunity to manipulate the film negative, to explore techniques and discover the potential the photograph had in interpreting objects and ideas.
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Alfred Stieglitz, The Terminal, 1892
Other photographs by Stieglitz concentrate on more conceptual ideas. His series of cloud photos, called Equivalents, are efforts to record the essence of a particular reality, and to do it “so completely, that all who see [the picture of it] will relive an equivalent of what has been expressed”. His Equivalents photos establish a new level for the aesthetic content of ideas, and are essentially the first abstract photographs.