Module 10: Submit - Realism and photography

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Context

The camera was incredibly important in the development of Realism in art, and it allowed for the idea that an artist or a photographer could be “objective.”  Courbet sought an objective approach to his art.  Below are three nineteenth-century photographs for you to consider. (Click on each of the three tabs) Each of the photographs represents a different way to think about and use the new technology, the camera. But can art and/or photography ever be objective? 

Assignment

Analyze these three photographs for their objectivity and answer the following questions:  In what ways are they objective?  In what ways do they subscribe to the aims of Realism?  And finally, in what ways do they demonstrate a complete lack of objectivity?

Type up your answers in a Word document and upload it to Canvas.

 

Daguerreotype of a Gentleman, 1840’s

Daguerreotype of a Gentleman, 1840’s

A portrait.

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