Web 3.

0 & Ubiquitous
Photography

Ubiquitous photography
THE RAISE OF DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE
INTERNET RESULTED IN PHOTOGRAPHIC AND MEDIA
CONTENT TO APPEAR IN MULTIPLE PLACES AT THE
SAME TIME. IMAGES WEATHER IN EVERYDAY LIFE, ART,
OR ARCHIVES ARE DISTRIBUTED ON THE WEB ON A
LARGE SCALE, WEATHER THROUGH SHARING VIA A
WEBSITE SUCH AS FLICKR OR FACEBOOK , OR STORING
ON WEB DRIVES SUCH AS THE CLOUD, DROPBOX ETC.

We are witnessing the death of film and the

proliferation of photographies
The
black&blue/white&
gold dress is one
example of this kind
of situation. The
image began its
popular journey on
facebook, and ened
up everywhere, on

Joe Mcnally

McNally born 1952 and is an American photographer who has worked with National
Geographic for over 20 years and was the last staff photographer for Life magazine.
American Photo has called him perhaps one of the most versatile photo journalists and
ranked by Eye Fi one of top 5 most socially influential photographers. He was also named 2015
photographer of the year by PMDA (Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency).

One of his most famous works is Faces of Ground Zero and was
collection of 246 giant Polaroid portraits shot in the Moby C Studio near
Ground Zero. The exhibit and and a print of Life magazine helped raise $2
million for the 9/11 relief effort.

Another was his work with National Geographic on the December 2003 issue The Future of
Flying.

Penelope Umbrico

A little bit about her

Artist/photographer
Appropriating
Search
Her images
work has been exhibited, published in books &

engines
won awards.

Is it
fair

Suns from Flickr

Instillation title:
2,303,057 Suns from Flickr (Partial)
9/25/07
(The number at the beginning of the title
represents the number of hits she got when
searching the word sunset.)

I think its peculiar that the sun finds

expression on the internet. the most
virtual of spaces equally infinite but
within a closed electrical circuit.

Sunsets from Flickr.

Penelope decided to
leave people in the
photos this time to look
at the relationship
between the "collective"
and the "individual "

Instances of Casually Flung Clothing, (from home-decor and home-improvement websites and catalogues

Classic Still Life's (From Home Improvement and Decor Magazines and
Websites)

Honeymoon Suites (From honeymoon resort brochures)

In her own words

I employ traditional photographic techniques and methods of appropriation, extraction, multiple production,
and intervention, to explore how we, as a culture, make and use images

DOES NOT TAKE HER OWN PHOTOS

Her style: Collective practices in Photography

Collects photos of similar context into one collage, such a the sunsets

She addresses how differently images function on the internet compared to the physical time/space. She also
looks into what happens to the images perceived value when transcribed from web-based to print based media.

Q. What do some of her photos mean to you? How do you perceive them even on screen after cropping and the
collective as a whole?

Do you appreciate her work and style?

Claudette DSilva
Week 9 Group Presentation

Edward S.
Curtis

Ubiquitous Photography

Edward S. Curtis

Edward Curtis was an ethnologist and American

Photographer, born February 16th 1868.
He specialised in ubiquitous sepia photographs of Native
American Indians. These photographs have been adapted as
the typical, historic classical American Indian photo now
greatly mass produced.
At that time the Native American Indians were being
encouraged to conform to western clothing- such as wearing
shirts and trousers.These were being handed out to the
Native American Indians by the Bureau Of Indian Affairs.
Edward Curtis photographed the Native American Indians
in there traditional dress, and often paid his subjects.
Asking them to pose in specific situations to document their
lives. He was deeply moved by the loss of their identity. It is
said he wanted to basically preserve and document their
native North American heritage, which was slowly fading
away. He documented the somewhat of a huge 80 tribes.
His photographs gained him massive recognition at that
time. He was respected by many including President
Roosevelt.

The North
American
Indian

Exhibition: 1905-1906 Edward produces

an exhibition after travelling across
America photographing the 80 tribes. The
whole rare collection has still been
preserved till today.
These ubiquitous photographs have
become a somewhat trademark image
of The Red American Indian, in the
typical feather headdress etc.

More images from the collection. Men, women an children in

traditional clothing, and landscape. The subjects are aware
they are being photographed. The photograph where the men
are with the skull, shows another part of their culture

Some of the photographs show the natural glow of the environment.

Discussion

Ubiquitous photography currently- with the mass

availability of technology to be able to take
photographs?
Photographing/documenting staged scenes?
Where or did these photographs become so popularbecause he took so many photographs?

Bibliography

http://www.pem.org/exhibitions/55-the_master_prints_of_edward_s_curtis_po
rtraits_of_native_america

https://luminous-landscape.com/edward-s-curtis-the-man-who-never-slept/

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/images/at0046a.6s.jpg

http://thecollectedimage.com/artwork/2208872_EDWARD_S_CURTIS_Huka_L
owapi_Painting_the.html
http://libraries.uark.edu/info/Artchive/curtis07/fullsize/comanche_mother_p
late685full.jpg
http://edwardcurtis.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/MedicineCrow-233x3
00.jpg

Bibliography

http://blog.joemcnally.com
http://
uk.complex.com/style/2013/06/the-most-influential-ph
otographers/2-joe-mcnally
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/web-30.htm
https://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K36unQrQ4yI&list=LLc
tmSyK-QofEPHCGI8quxpw&index=3