Part 5: The New Objectivity – Ken Nadle After World War 1, the crash of 1929 and subsequent depression years, photographers shifted away from pretty, painterly, pictorials towards realistic photography. It is in this period, the 1920’s and 30’s, that many of the photographers we revere today and their iconic images were introduced to the [...]
Part 4: You Press the Button and We Do the Rest -Ken Nadle At the turn of the last century, George Eastman’s Kodak made picture taking available to the masses. Kodak’s slogan was “You Press the Button and We Do the Rest,” a concept not dissimilar to the Program and Auto buttons on today’s cameras. [...]
- By Ken Nadle Part 1: The Roots In a conceptual way, the first photographs were the shadows on Plato’s cave wall. About that same time Chinese philosopher Mo-Ti and Greek philosopher Aristotle wrote about the phenomena of the camera obscura (circa 400 BC) where a pin hole let light into a darken room and [...]
