HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY Kelly Chalk and Craig Dennett

HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY Kelly Chalk and Craig Dennett

EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE 1830 – 1904

EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE FACTS He was an English photographer who spent much of his life in the United States. While recuperating back in England, he took up photography seriously sometime between 1861 and 1866, where he learned the wet-collodion process.

TECHNIQUES USED BY BRADY He is known for his pioneering work on animal motion which used multiple cameras to capture motion by taking picture after picture of a moving objects, and his zoopraxiscope, a device for projecting motion pictures that pre-dated the flexible perforated film strip.

CINDY SHERMAN 1954 PRESENT

CINDY SHERMAN Cindy Sherman is 57, and is an American photographer and film director, best known for her conceptual portraits. Sherman currently lives and works in New York City. In 1995, she was the recipient of a Mac. Arthur Fellowship. Through a number of different series of works, Sherman has raised challenging and important questions about the role and representation of women in society, the media and the nature of the creation of art.

TECHNIQUES USED BY CINDY SHERMAN Cindy Sherman uses women, in almost all her pictures, often photographing herself in allsorts of different elaborate costumes and make up to transform her identity for each image. Although Sherman does not consider her work feminist, many of her photos, call attention to the stereotyping of women in films, television and magazines.

SOME MORE OF CINDY SHERMAN’S WORK

LATER CAREER As Cindy’s career has gone on, her work has become more ‘grotesque’ as she has gained fame, she has gone less mainstream and photographed what she wants a lot more, and not what seemed acceptable at the time.