Keyword: Materiality in 19th Century
This material is useful because it was discussed the wonder of materiality and digitization of photographs. It is shown that it is crucial to archive photographs properly in order to remember stories told in images. This fact was shown in exhibitions from different countries. How it is written:” The exhibit also makes counter- memory material as embodied by a replica of the museum’s filling and storage system , in which photographs are mounted on boards for classification and storage.”
“Archival Meaning: Materiality , Digitalization, And The Nineteenth- Century Photograph”- Andrea L. Volpe
Keyword: Portraits in 19th Century
The biography of Edward Steichen has the important point that even if you are young, you can create wonderful photographs. The most important fact Edward Steichen gives to spectators through portraits- to remove all masks. As an example, there are some self- portraits with those expressions which have “extraordinary capacity for allusively manipulating the elements of his art.” Beside that , the photographer makes psychological link with a through a portrait: “ Steichen adds a psychological link to the pleasure Titian's great painting produced which makes him experience a certain feeling of nostalgic convenience with Titian and with the model…”.
“The Royal Photographic Society Collection”- Edward Steichen
Keyword: Photograph as Objects in 19th Century
This book shows how it is possible to narrate your own history through subjects as the photograph Eugene Atget was. As an example of Paris, it is given some information how Steichen made photographs with simple things and angles and how he could create the atmosphere of another storytime. About “Versailles”: “Both Versailles’ sculpted gardens and flowered curtains in a poor quarter are images of nature; a shaded street and the three- lined approach to a grand chateau are versions of the same space; photographs of a giant and a midget in a street- fair sideshow are images of characters”. In some words, it is written how Atget could perfectly control a nature with his way of making photographs. And the crucial message is that we can exercise our own vision , to see the inevitable complexities of this world as the source of our own imaginative understanding.”
“Masters of Photography Aperture”- Eugene Atget