Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Photography Reborn Reading 3

Jennifer Ringley while not a photographer was an early user of the digital camera to capture her day-to-day life in still imagery. Being one of the first web cam users as well for online early blogging type purposes. She began the images while in college (1996) and it ran until she shut it down in 2003 when pay-pal changed some of its policies that would in turn restrict what she did.





Natacha Merritt’s work is similar in style but rather than using images to document her day to day life, in blog type format she chose to focus on a certain aspect of her life to take images from. Image of her after sexual encounters. It is an interesting contrast by only capturing moments from a particular part of her life she is one of the earliest individuals to have an online persona while her as an individual was a separate entity.





Henry Fox Talbot was the British inventor who was one of the first to develop an analog photographic process, the Calotype. He is well known for this as well as a famous dispute over whether it was the Calotype or the Daguerreotype that was the first analog process. History mainly remembers that Daguerre was the first and most famous of the early analog inventors, as Talbot lost much of his support as the daguerreotype became more popular and investors wanted a sure bet rather than to back a competitor that could lose them money.




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