FilmAnalysis · 照片背后的故事

一本分册出版的照片书

从照片出发,读一段摄影史。故事和照片之间只是阅读上的联想,不代表照片的作者、相机或实际用的胶卷。

1844 · 摄影史

塔尔博特的《自然的画笔》从 1844 年到 1846 年分六册出版,共收 24 幅照片。书里展示了摄影的各种用途:拍建筑、记录物品、复制图画。

每幅照片旁边都配有塔尔博特的说明文字。摄影当时刚问世几年,他用这本书告诉读者,这项新技术能拿来做什么。

不妨试试

选一件平常的物品,先拍一张交代它的外形,再拍一张表达你对它的感受。两张并排,看看照片怎样在说明和表达之间切换。

「不妨试试」是编辑设计的练习,不是史实。

资料出处

接着读

一张底片,印出许多张照片

晒在阳光下的盐纸照片

蓝晒:铁盐里的蓝色

故事卡与徽章分开收藏。为照片评分仍按原有规则收集徽章。

FilmAnalysis · Stories behind the frame

A book in instalments

Read a little photographic history. These connections suggest ways to look; they say nothing about authorship, cameras or the physical film stock.

1844 · History

Talbot's The Pencil of Nature was issued in six parts between 1844 and 1846, with 24 photographs. It showed what photography could do: architecture, records of objects, copies of drawings.

Each plate came with Talbot's own text. Photography was only a few years old, and the book set out to show readers what the new technique was for.

Try this

Photograph an ordinary object once to describe its shape, then again to show how it feels to you. Put the two side by side and see how a photograph can move between describing and expressing.

"Try this" is an exercise written by the editors, not history.

Sources

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