So ... guys I happen to follow a teacher in Brera. Her name is Amonaci and she teaches History of Photography. I invite you all to come and watch her lesson every GIOVEDI E VENERDI AT 12:00 IN SALA NAPOLEONICA IN BRERA! Her lessons are verymuch mind opening and she makes her students understand history for what it is. Very enlightining!
The point of studying the past and the development of photography through the years is actually finding out what the contemporary times humans are missing and striving for; so that the artist or photographer understand what type of message he should send to the people through arts and culture.
Example: If you take the 1880s and 90s... Those were times of extreme modersnism. Creations of car, industries, urban areas like paris and london booming, electricity all over the streets, the fast world... the complete loss of the rural and the traditional ways. It was the time of impressionism. Nitzche wrote
Thus Spoke Zarathustra,
The Gay Science, and
Beyond Good and Evil: preparing for the teorization of the New MAN. - The end of 1800s prepared us for a totally new and revolutionary start of the 1900s, a centure where all the rules of the past seemed to have been denied. The world was becoming emperistist, rational, geometrical and abstract. Currents like the futirists and the new dada with a very different way of doing art were to come.
Therefore taking a look at how the world was at that time, one must look at the art and see what artists how artists were trying to portray the "mood" of those years. One shoudnt necessarily look the work of artist to understand..but any type of image production, prints, adds, movies,,, and so on... so that we can make a theory based on the "eSTETICS" of the time.
So that is very interesting.
I will keep on showing my photos which are tought to accumulate a database of what and how images should portray the feeling of these days.
