Is photography art? This was a question that arose as soon as photography was invented and was fiercely debated during the Victorian era.
I start with the early ways in which images could be reproduced followed by the invention of photography and the way it developed up to about 1870.
What came out of all the trials and tribulations surrounding the early history of photography was that there are many different uses for photography some of which are now classified as art and we are still experimenting with all the various ways in which photography can be used as an art form.
In my next talk on Victorian photography I cover the sudden craze for the carte de visite, armchair tourism, recording important events including war photography and I end with Pictorialism, an international photographic style that dominated art photography in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century
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19 ноя 2023
