Critical Writing Index

The Technologies of Vision: A Survey of the Artist's Encounter with Photography, Film and Television

by Richard Hill

Art Magazine, Fall 1974, v. 6, no. 19, pp. 6-10

The article covers early photography and how its history and technique influenced movements such as Impressionism, Futurism, Surrealism, Dadaism and Pop Art. It also briefly mentions photography's effects on individual artists and its evolution to artist films.

ITEM 1974.003 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Nude Descending a Staircase – Andy Warhol

Daguerrotype – Marcel Duchamp

Calotype – Antonio Del Pollailo

Collodion Negative – Albrecht Dürer

Société Héliographique – Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

Olympia – Johannes Vermeer

Portrait of Zola – Giovanni Antonio Canaletto

Animal Locomotion – Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre

La photographie du mouvement – Fox Talbot

Marching Soldiers – Scott Archer

Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash – Paul Delaroche

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space – Horace Vernet

The Bather – Samuel Morse

The Moon and the Earth – Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

A Young Girl Telling her First Secrets to Venus – Eugène Delacroix

La Orano Maria – Jean-Léon Gérôme

Portrait of Vollard – Jean Everett Millais

Taking a Line for a Walk – Oscar Gustave Rejlander

La Ballet Mécanique

Rayographs – Henry Peach Robinson

Un Chien Andalou – David Octavius Hill

Vortographs – Sir Joshua Reynolds

Schadographs – Charles Baudelaire

Photograms – Jean Baptiste-Camille Corot

Rolling Power – Felix Nadar

The Artist and his Mother – Edouard Manet

In the Courthouse Cage – Edouard Manet

The Battleship Potemkin – Honoré Daumier

Just What it is that Makes Today's Homes so Different, so Appealing – Claude Monet

Edgar Degas

Eadweard Muybridge

Thomas Eakins

Etienne-Jules Marey

Georges-Pierre Seurat

Gustave Courbet

Jacques Villon

Giacomo Balla

Umberto Boccioni

Naum Gabo

Paul Cézanne

Henri Rousseau

Paul Gauguin

François Jouffroy

François Jouffroy

Raul Hausmann

Salvador Dali

René Magritte

Philippe Halsman

Pablo Picasso

Giulio Bragalia

Kazimir Malevich

Robert Delaunay

Paul Klee

Arnaldo Ginna

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Viking Eggeling

Fernand Léger

Frances Picabia

Man Ray

René Clair

Luis Buñuel

Alivin Langdon Coburn

Christian Schad

László Moholy-Nagy

Edward Steichen

Charles Sheeler

Brassaï

Auguste Rodin

Alfred Stieglitz

Arshile Gorky

Ben Shahn

Francis Bacon

Sergei Eisenstein

Richard Hamilton

Robert Rauschenberg