Photography and New Media

Photography and New Media 

The Victorian era  where people became obsessed with extravagant designs.wealth inspired this change in design 

 
https://visualartsdepartment.wordpress.com/the-victorian-era/



 Colour lithography was  perfected by a french printer  who patented  then chromolithography process .He analysed each colour within a picture and then arranged each colour into a series of printing plates which would give the beautiful end result .this is quite an interesting  process of how much effort it took to  create a photo back then.


https://visualartsdepartment.wordpress.com/the-victorian-era/



1880  Art nouveau: This was a decorative style in art where  the artworks where decorated with organic patterns of plants. 


http://www.vam.ac.uk/__data/assets/image/0003/94539/hdr-art-nouveau-415


Futurism was an art movement  than began in Italy in the beginning of the 20th century .The artworks dramatised  concepts of the future like  future cars aeroplanes and industrial city's. 



http://www.designishistory.com/files/gimgs/32_futurism04.jpg'

The WAP  a government project initiated by Franklin Delano Roosevelt to help employ its citizens the WAP funded artist tow create  murals  and sculptures to decorate the  public buildings across the country  . The WPA project  funding artists made way for the creation of the National Foundation for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Mural-Post-Office-Benton-Arkansas.jpg


 The International Typographic Style ,a graphic design style created in the 1950s  in Switzerland  that highlights readability  and neatness. It makes use of grid layouts  asymmetric layouts  fonts without serifs and  flush left alignment.


http://smearedblackink.com/swiss_style_timeline/img/art_hoff.jpg

Paparazzi in the 20th century we tend to idolise celebrities and with this the paparazzi has made a living from giving us pictures and videos of what our idols are up to on a daily basis 

http://richleighandco.com/wp-contegt/uploads/paparazzi.jp



Fashion design has developed over the years to adapt to what consumers want but not only directed at consumers fashion design has become an art form that brings in millions of dollars artist (fashion designers ) design extravagant clothing items and display them at fashion shows to be admired the same way one may look at a painting on a wall 


https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIpShcsWplWirLteMA7aUqCNQ2kZSkIs_KiwpRDWauoJfx7WIg-GhRvLq8m9-8aCyDOclGrNfP6MaRR3WD71McH1R6ugbNkyhQGnwjB-Yn5N2qjWE1wtRsa1U31OB5BHld0tVLwzozowk0/s1600/celebs+through+the+years.jpg

Graffiti is a subculture of hip hop a the art form originated in New York and then quickly spread across the word and there's no stopping it now . graffiti is the freedom to express what a artist feels with no limitations cause their identity is unknown . 

photo and artwork by R.Naidoo


Photography   has developed a great deal  from a box with a hole in it that you would have to manually sketch the picture to a single click on your mobile phone and you have a digital copy that can be printed shared and deleted in seconds 


https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/5/5b/20140121010537!Photographer-studio-1893.jpg