Time periods in history and first examples -
Researching historical facts around the themes of my product, this being books, storytelling and landscape photography will provide me with contextual knowledge and further meanings behind my aims, the ability to signpost or signify famous poetry/photography examples within my work.
Starting in earlier days under the poetry theme, there were many influential periods in history in which the written form was popular, for example, the most common /popular being the Elizabethan era.
One of the earliest poets recorded was in the 6th century, being Caedmon, writing in Anglo-Saxon, also known as old English, consisting of German, Norwegian, Latin, etc. Further examples under the medieval (4th to 15th) century being Geoffrey Chaucer, one of the first poets to write in English. Content produced by Chaucer inspiring more experimental, creative, structured pieces of work, developing the English language into 15/16th century under Queen Elizabeth's reign, including poets such as Shakespeare, Sir Thomas Watt and Phillip Sydney. Queen Elizabeth said to love theatre, play-writing alongside poetry was important within this time period. Development through to the Renaissance literature era including poetry from 14th to 17th century, an example being Sir Thomas Wyatt writing one of the earliest structured English sonnets ( using the iambic pentameter under 14 lines, with each verse having 10 syllables as learnt from English Literature.) titled 'Whoso List to Hunt.' Two further centuries from 16th to 18th including the 'Enlightenment' and 'Romantic' period of poetry. The enlightenment period consisting of a disciplined structure, with traditional Greek styles of writing, and the romantic period contrasting this massively, exploring creative peace, nature and uniqueness.This 18th century technique being something I would like to follow within structuring my poems, as the theme of nature is explored.
Romanticism era -
Within the 18th century, the romanticism period existed with poets exploring more natural and individual themes. Poets explored the "relationship between individuals and the society of nature as a whole," (Book -Languages of Nature, 1986) and wrote more about the norms, political elements, morals and actions that 18th century society consisted of in order to understand nature itself. An example being novel book, The Rise of the Novel (1957, Ian Watt.) Watt linked various ideas together, some being a growing middle class reading public and a new genre of Novel books. The realism (truthful perception or view of a natural element) of the novel being that natural elements such as the environment, time and place are "backdrops" towards human activity. A further example being Pilkington who explores an element of human characteristics and links it to nature, this being sexuality, Pilkington believes questions and stigmas around human sexuality, reproduction, genetics, etc link to the "wild"ness, and "out there" characteristics of nature, making the writers links between human and nature major and strong. Within my project, I would like to consider similar messages that romanticist poets had, in terms of linking my poems (and photos) to the environment and welcome to the forest aspect of our theme with fellowship. This nature and human link becoming strong, influenced by 18th century inspirations, their interpretations of nature constantly linking to the exploration of human thinking.
Back to the timeline past the Victorian era, modern poetry developed from these figures bringing the medium to the 21st century, using techniques like free verse, narrative poetry (telling a story) and writing techniques like alliteration, in which I will heavily be exploring throughout my book. alongside poets who I am inspired by, such as Rupi Kaur and Amanda Lovelace. The medium has changed in an interesting way, influenced by the development in English Language and poets inspired by work made before them - this being inspired to change and contrast previous work completely e.g 18th century Romanticists in regards to juxtaposing enlightenment poets or use and develop techniques beforehand, e.g further poets and literature writers inspired by Shakespeare's initial iambic pentameter.
Historical context - photography
First examples -
As part of exploring the other side to my project involving photography, viewing where the medium all started and developed in terms of techniques and technology is important and will provide me with a wider understanding of photography. The technology that started photography was the pinhole camera / camera obscura, used in 10th century, using light rays passing through a tiny hole and reversing the opposite way round onto something placed parallel to the hole. This phenomenon leading events such as the discovery of white light by Isaac Newton 16th century, the process of refracting white light of a prism splitting into various rainbow colours.
One of the earliest physical examples developing throughout centuries being Heliography in 18th century, consisting of a pewter plate with added coated substances from the artists previous experiments such as Asphalt by the artist Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. The plate was placed opposite the camera and was exposed to the sun, creating a hard patterned surface in the end product. After Niépce's work was photographer Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, developing the self titled Daguerrotype process. A Daguerrtoype is a heavy metal plate, producing sharp,clear and detailed results. The end product is fragile and vulnerable, and is a development from Niepce's work as it requires minutes of exposure, rather than days. An artist named William Henry Fox Talbotof then created a photography presented technique called Calotype, consisting of chemical substances such as salt and sodium chloride also following the camera obscrua exposure settings and creating negative calotypes. The process involves darkrooms and exposure to light timing settings. The idea of developing photographs within darkrooms and depending on exposure as a big element of the photograph intrigues me and has informed me on the evolution photography settings have had.
The first colour photography by artist James Clerk Maxwell was produced in 1861,taking Isaac Newtons colour/white light theories into account by photographing through red, blue and yellow filters. The Lecia camera was one of the first to be factory produced in 19th century, this developing to the cameras that allowed technology to develop the further the years passed, including the Rolliecord, Polaroid and Fuji Fulix. The first camera we use frequently today in our projects being a Nikon was 1959, the Nikon F. 20th century further developed to roll films, full colour photography on phones with the flexible and easy access to select desired filters or options in black and white and cameras with technology / companies such as Kodak, Nikon DLSR, Casio and
Canon.
The development under technology including colours and filters is an important subject to consider within a photography project in itself, signifying referencing changes made and how, along with how these changes have had an impact in terms of being able to express something through photography. For example, the growth from black and white photography to colour, new settings added to modern cameras such as white balance. These settings not only meaning the aesthetical features of a final photograph can be adjusted but the perspective and manner in which the photograph can be interpreted. White balance allows a photographs colour to come as close to what we see in real life as possible in terms of colour, an example being that a camera may pickup a white wall as cream or off white, when in our eyes the wall is white. The development of technology allowing such feature (WB) to make these precise adjustments, in this example therefore meaning the wall is seen as close to white as the way our eyes see. The setting can be adjusted depending on temperature from warm reds to cool blues, altering the mood of the final photograph therefore our interpretations on what we're seeing. This also sparks the idea of photography being reality or fake, if we can change the way such photos are interpreted through the alteration of various settings, is photography a real representation of reality?
Bibliography - photography
https://www.dickermanprints.com/blog/a-brief-timeline-of-the-history-of-photography
http://www.daguerreobase.org/en/knowledge-base/what-is-a-daguerreotype
https://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/permanent/firstphotograph/process/#top
http://anseladams.com/ansel-adams-bio/
One of the earliest poets recorded was in the 6th century, being Caedmon, writing in Anglo-Saxon, also known as old English, consisting of German, Norwegian, Latin, etc. Further examples under the medieval (4th to 15th) century being Geoffrey Chaucer, one of the first poets to write in English. Content produced by Chaucer inspiring more experimental, creative, structured pieces of work, developing the English language into 15/16th century under Queen Elizabeth's reign, including poets such as Shakespeare, Sir Thomas Watt and Phillip Sydney. Queen Elizabeth said to love theatre, play-writing alongside poetry was important within this time period. Development through to the Renaissance literature era including poetry from 14th to 17th century, an example being Sir Thomas Wyatt writing one of the earliest structured English sonnets ( using the iambic pentameter under 14 lines, with each verse having 10 syllables as learnt from English Literature.) titled 'Whoso List to Hunt.' Two further centuries from 16th to 18th including the 'Enlightenment' and 'Romantic' period of poetry. The enlightenment period consisting of a disciplined structure, with traditional Greek styles of writing, and the romantic period contrasting this massively, exploring creative peace, nature and uniqueness.This 18th century technique being something I would like to follow within structuring my poems, as the theme of nature is explored.
Romanticism era -
Within the 18th century, the romanticism period existed with poets exploring more natural and individual themes. Poets explored the "relationship between individuals and the society of nature as a whole," (Book -Languages of Nature, 1986) and wrote more about the norms, political elements, morals and actions that 18th century society consisted of in order to understand nature itself. An example being novel book, The Rise of the Novel (1957, Ian Watt.) Watt linked various ideas together, some being a growing middle class reading public and a new genre of Novel books. The realism (truthful perception or view of a natural element) of the novel being that natural elements such as the environment, time and place are "backdrops" towards human activity. A further example being Pilkington who explores an element of human characteristics and links it to nature, this being sexuality, Pilkington believes questions and stigmas around human sexuality, reproduction, genetics, etc link to the "wild"ness, and "out there" characteristics of nature, making the writers links between human and nature major and strong. Within my project, I would like to consider similar messages that romanticist poets had, in terms of linking my poems (and photos) to the environment and welcome to the forest aspect of our theme with fellowship. This nature and human link becoming strong, influenced by 18th century inspirations, their interpretations of nature constantly linking to the exploration of human thinking.
Back to the timeline past the Victorian era, modern poetry developed from these figures bringing the medium to the 21st century, using techniques like free verse, narrative poetry (telling a story) and writing techniques like alliteration, in which I will heavily be exploring throughout my book. alongside poets who I am inspired by, such as Rupi Kaur and Amanda Lovelace. The medium has changed in an interesting way, influenced by the development in English Language and poets inspired by work made before them - this being inspired to change and contrast previous work completely e.g 18th century Romanticists in regards to juxtaposing enlightenment poets or use and develop techniques beforehand, e.g further poets and literature writers inspired by Shakespeare's initial iambic pentameter.
Historical context - photography
First examples -
As part of exploring the other side to my project involving photography, viewing where the medium all started and developed in terms of techniques and technology is important and will provide me with a wider understanding of photography. The technology that started photography was the pinhole camera / camera obscura, used in 10th century, using light rays passing through a tiny hole and reversing the opposite way round onto something placed parallel to the hole. This phenomenon leading events such as the discovery of white light by Isaac Newton 16th century, the process of refracting white light of a prism splitting into various rainbow colours.
One of the earliest physical examples developing throughout centuries being Heliography in 18th century, consisting of a pewter plate with added coated substances from the artists previous experiments such as Asphalt by the artist Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. The plate was placed opposite the camera and was exposed to the sun, creating a hard patterned surface in the end product. After Niépce's work was photographer Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, developing the self titled Daguerrotype process. A Daguerrtoype is a heavy metal plate, producing sharp,clear and detailed results. The end product is fragile and vulnerable, and is a development from Niepce's work as it requires minutes of exposure, rather than days. An artist named William Henry Fox Talbotof then created a photography presented technique called Calotype, consisting of chemical substances such as salt and sodium chloride also following the camera obscrua exposure settings and creating negative calotypes. The process involves darkrooms and exposure to light timing settings. The idea of developing photographs within darkrooms and depending on exposure as a big element of the photograph intrigues me and has informed me on the evolution photography settings have had.
The first colour photography by artist James Clerk Maxwell was produced in 1861,taking Isaac Newtons colour/white light theories into account by photographing through red, blue and yellow filters. The Lecia camera was one of the first to be factory produced in 19th century, this developing to the cameras that allowed technology to develop the further the years passed, including the Rolliecord, Polaroid and Fuji Fulix. The first camera we use frequently today in our projects being a Nikon was 1959, the Nikon F. 20th century further developed to roll films, full colour photography on phones with the flexible and easy access to select desired filters or options in black and white and cameras with technology / companies such as Kodak, Nikon DLSR, Casio and
Canon.
The development under technology including colours and filters is an important subject to consider within a photography project in itself, signifying referencing changes made and how, along with how these changes have had an impact in terms of being able to express something through photography. For example, the growth from black and white photography to colour, new settings added to modern cameras such as white balance. These settings not only meaning the aesthetical features of a final photograph can be adjusted but the perspective and manner in which the photograph can be interpreted. White balance allows a photographs colour to come as close to what we see in real life as possible in terms of colour, an example being that a camera may pickup a white wall as cream or off white, when in our eyes the wall is white. The development of technology allowing such feature (WB) to make these precise adjustments, in this example therefore meaning the wall is seen as close to white as the way our eyes see. The setting can be adjusted depending on temperature from warm reds to cool blues, altering the mood of the final photograph therefore our interpretations on what we're seeing. This also sparks the idea of photography being reality or fake, if we can change the way such photos are interpreted through the alteration of various settings, is photography a real representation of reality?
Bibliography - photography
https://www.dickermanprints.com/blog/a-brief-timeline-of-the-history-of-photography
http://www.daguerreobase.org/en/knowledge-base/what-is-a-daguerreotype
https://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/permanent/firstphotograph/process/#top
http://anseladams.com/ansel-adams-bio/
Bibliography - poetry
https://www.skyminds.net/the-19th-century-romanti m-in-art-and-literature/
https://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/arts/literature/poetry7.htm
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/poetic-diction-poets-glossary
https://amandalovelace.com/books.html
https://www.skyminds.net/the-19th-century-romanti m-in-art-and-literature/
https://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/arts/literature/poetry7.htm
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/poetic-diction-poets-glossary
https://amandalovelace.com/books.html
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