POST #12 – LECTURE – PHOTOGRAPHY AND PRINTED MEDIA

 As technology evolved in the industrial revolution and now that new innovations have been created, there was a new machine that made printing a little easier, the "Gutenberg Printing Press". Later on in the 17th century, newspapers were invented, but hard to see, that those were improved later on. Sooner many years later in the 18th century, the first steam engine was made! There was something more important that was created when it came to art, and that is the "Camera Obscura". This was a device that created an image from outside that artists could paint over. Then things got easier, the first camera was invented by Joseph Niepce. After the camera became a thing, artists and filmmakers started experimenting with movements to use in films. Before the camera technology got better, Etienne Jules Marey studied how pictures could move together and see the invisible "visible". This was a process called "chronophotography". He adopted and further developed animated photography into a separate field of chronophotography in the 1880’s. Then, more artists got inspired by this design and they wanted to start experimenting with frame by frame pictures to make them move, and a moving camera was created by Eadweard Muybridge, called the zoopraxiscope. However, in this case, the one who was credited as the first person to use moving pictures was Louis Le Prince, as he created the 16-lens camera. Many artists became inspired by this invention, and filmmakers like William Dickson, who created the Kinetograph, and George Méliès, made films and movies for everyone to see possible.