Welcome back! Let's take a look at what we're going to be learning about this week.
In this module we are moving all the way up into the end of the 19th century
we're going to be learning about snapshots which is something we all take every day
still except now they're digital snapshots instead of analog or paper-based snapshots. Um,
but we're going to learn about snapshots and how they really came to be through the company known
as Kodak. I loved when I first started learning about Kodak. I thought it was so cool and it
made so much sense to me so I hope that you are interested in this module as I was when I first
was introduced to these topics we're also going to take a look at how still photography starts to
transition into motion pictures. Now when you hear that phrase motion picture you may think of a big
movie on a screen — well, we're not quite there yet but we're going to look at the intermediate
steps and see how the inventions that you've been learning about these past few weeks really
created the foundation for those pictures. And you'll even get to create your own motion picture
by making with your own hands either a thaumatrope or a flipbook. So I can't wait to see that.
Now with regards to the real world connections you're going to be making this week you'll be
looping back to the um the popularization of carte de visites that you investigated last week
remember you put together that very cool collection of carte de visites. So you're going
to use that this week. You're going to revisit that collection, take a look at it through your
review and reflect assignment, get critical about what you're seeing and then what you're going to
do is actually make a connection or make some connections critical connections between those
19th century carte de visites that seem so far away and distant and social media — things like
Instagram and Tik Tok. What's the similarity there? And if you maybe don't use Instagram or
Tik Tok that doesn't mean that you're not going to participate. It means that I want you to have
conversations with people. Talk to your friends. Talk to people you know who are in this space if
you aren't and if you are in the space look at the experiences in social media. So go into Instagram,
go into Tik Tok and really think about some what you're seeing and try to make some
critical connections to carte de visites. I can't wait to see what you come up with.
Now moving into our historical processes and key figures um this timeline we've been adding to
every week in our modules right? So this is kind of where we left off last time with the collodion
wet plate process. We looked at the glass plate negatives and how they were used to make albumen
prints, ambrotypes and tintypes and this week we are building on to that by looking at things like
the zoopraxiscope and chronophotography, uh 1880 inventions. And then the Kodak brownie so you'll
start you'll learn about George Eastman, who was the founder of Kodak. You'll take a little bit
of a glimpse into his life and how he got how and why he started Kodak. Um he's remembered as a very
shrewd businessman. And then it was really the 1890 Kodak Brownie camera that really began to
revolutionize photography and make it something that anyone could do even women and children,
gasp! So that's what we're going to look at this week I hope that sounds interesting to all of you
and when we get into our next module we're going to start jumping into how photography
really was being leveraged as an art form moving into the 20th century. And you'll be
actually working on your own project about a 20th century photographer so you'll get
to pick a photographer so start thinking about that this week too and I will see you online.