Maria BOSTENARU DAN, 2011, The Street in the Photography from the 19th and Early 20th Century as Mean of Art or Science, in: e-conservation, 19, NULL
- Author : Maria BOSTENARU DAN
- Year : 2011
- Title English : The Street in the Photography from the 19th and Early 20th Century as Mean of Art or Science
- Journal/Series : e-conservation
- Volume Number (ANNUAL: Counting Volumes of the Year shown above) : NULL
- Volume Number (CONSECUTIVE: Counting all Volumes of this Journal ever published) : 19
- Pages : 57-69
- Abstract in English : Art makes accessible to us worlds that we cannot understand through science. We focus on the street landscape in photography from the 19th-20th century, applying concepts from the philosophy of photography. The concepts applied in this analysis are from Arnheim, Baudelaire, Bazin, Krakauer, Warburton, and Snyder & Walsh Allen. Various aspects of realism in photography at its beginnings are discussed. Examples are given on how archive photography, on the example of the Tzigara-Samurcas collection and notable photographers such as Sommer and Genthe, is used for documentary reasons. For example, in restoration interventions or after events such as earthquakes to evoke the original image of the streetscape or to document the damages. The future of documentary photography with today’s digital possibilities is also discussed. Considerations on photography as “souvenir” and about “microlandscape” photographs, such as family photographs that become documents, are also discussed. Street photography is a kind of photography of “chance meeting” of people crowds and vehicles. Photography is a “door” of access to memory.
- Contents in English : Introduction The Tzigara-Samurcas archive About the landscape of the street at Tzigara-Samurcas The archive on photos of disasters About memory Conclusions Acknowledgements References