This document discusses the history of art and photography. It explores how photography has influenced painting over the past 200 years. The work of artists Uta Barth is examined, who questions photographic conventions and draws attention to the act of perception. Barth's photographs have a painterly quality and focus on light, resembling the work of Vermeer. The document argues that Barth's work can be considered aesthetic as it represents visual reality while also depicting immaterial phenomena like lens flares. Inspiration is drawn from artists like Vermeer, Hopper, and Caravaggio. The second half provides tips on using a DSLR camera and different camera lenses and modes for types of photography like portraits, landscapes, and food.

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6. Light
We need to also then look at the history of art, specifically painting, and the
emergence of technological and digital advancements. Art has changed
considerably over the past 200 years. The emergence of photography has
played a major part in this change. Photography was the technology that
produced the term, 'from today painting is dead' by Paul Delaroche in 1839. Is
that true today? Is photography more aesthetic than painting or vice versa?
• Susan Sontag expressed her theories on photography. She said, 'In deciding
how a picture show look, in preferring one exposure to another,
photographers are always imposing standards of their subjects. Although
there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just
interpret in, photographs are as much an interpretation of the world as
paintings and drawings are.

7. Uta Barth is another contemporary artist that has questioned aesthetics. She tries to make us aware of looking rather aware of
what we are looking at. Deceptively simple, her photographs question the traditional functions of pictures, subvert
photographic conventions, and re-direct the viewer’s attention to the act of perception. Her photographs are more
picturesque than photographic. Her work is more about visual experience than the subject matter. An examination of
perception and the conventions of photographic presentation Barth’s photographs focus on the ordinary, the
unadorned, and the ephemeral. Turning her camera on what is often overlooked, her extremely focused study of visual
phenomena has produced a body of work of increasing philosophical complexity and simple visual purity. Emphasizing the
act of seeing, Barth alters the relationship of the viewer to the subject matter: Douglas Crimp has pointed out, ‘picture’ has a
non-specificity in regard to its medium, and as a verb it may refer both to a mental process and to the production of an
aesthetic object. The idea of a mental process being involved and jump-starting the imagination links back to what Kant said.
Barth's photographs have a distinctive painterly quality, and have been compared to the formal aspects and quality of light in
Vermeer’s paintings suggesting a need to return back to a Romantic and traditional style of artwork. Bart’s work is all related
through varying with slight shifts in angles, changes in atmosphere, light and time of day which are central to her aesthetic
project. (art daily)

8. Plate 4. Uta Barth. Untitled, from nowhere near (now 12), 1999
Barth’s photographs are clearly representational of the visual reality around her and yet we see evidence of immaterial
matter appearing in the photographs. Lens flares caused by the sun’s light hitting the camera at a specific angle and the
sun’s light bouncing off a wall. Nature, as Kant defined, was beauty and yet so was the representation of physical objects.
By all definitions then, and by also agreeing with Plato’s emphasis on the forms (in this case the sun) transcending reality,
surely Barth’s work is aesthetic?

9. Inspiration
Vameer

10. Hopper

11. Carraviaggio

15. Your camera
• No 1 Rule for Blogging…..Buy a DSLR. Any DSLR.
Canon, Nikon, Pentax.
• Kit Lens
18-55mm 50-200mm
• Other Lens
50mm 18mm 35mm 100mm
• Best Lens to buy for specific blogs/ imagery.

16. Smart Phones

17. Get to know your camera

18. 50-200mm f: 4-5.6 18-55mm f: 3.5-5.6
35mm f:2.4 50mm f: 1.8
Lens

19. Shooting Modes
AV/A: Aperture priority ( f stop/ f number )
TV/ TVA/ S: Shutter speed. 1/50-80 for lifestyle in good light.
M: Manual, set your own priorities.
NEVER USE AUTO!

20. Examples
PT: https://chiascuro.co.uk/2017/01/21/personal-training-photography-
tutorial/
Flat Lay Lifestyle: http://wp.me/p8ayAa-8B
Depth of Field: http://wp.me/p8ayAa-8V
Shutter Speed: http://wp.me/p8ayAa-9a
Zoom: http://wp.me/p8ayAa-82
Fashion: http://wp.me/p8ayAa-7R
Food: https://chiascuro.co.uk/2017/01/21/flat-lay-tutorial/

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