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 StaircaseAndy Warhol

DaguerrotypeMarcel Duchamp

CalotypeAntonio Del Pollailo

Collodion NegativeAlbrecht Dürer

Société HéliographiqueRembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

OlympiaJohannes Vermeer

Portrait of ZolaGiovanni Antonio Canaletto

Animal LocomotionLouis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre

La photographie du mouvementFox Talbot

Marching SoldiersScott Archer

Dynamism of a Dog on a LeashPaul Delaroche

Unique Forms of Continuity in SpaceHorace Vernet

The BatherSamuel Morse

The Moon and the EarthJean Auguste Dominique Ingres

A Young Girl Telling her First Secrets to VenusEugène Delacroix

La Orano MariaJean-Léon Gérôme

Portrait of VollardJean Everett Millais

Taking a Line for a WalkOscar Gustave Rejlander

La Ballet Mécanique

RayographsHenry Peach Robinson

Un Chien AndalouDavid Octavius Hill

VortographsSir Joshua Reynolds

SchadographsCharles Baudelaire

PhotogramsJean Baptiste-Camille Corot

Rolling PowerFelix Nadar

The Artist and his MotherEdouard Manet

In the Courthouse CageEdouard Manet

The Battleship PotemkinHonoré Daumier

Just What it is that Makes Today's Homes so Different, so AppealingClaude 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