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Photography and Drawing : From Photography for Drawing to Drawing for Photography

  • The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art
  • Abbr : JASA
  • 2014, 41(), pp.239-266
  • Publisher : 한국미학예술학회
  • Research Area : Arts and Kinesiology > Other Arts and Kinesiology
  • Published : June 30, 2014

Lee, Phil 1

1한국예술종합학교

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ABSTRACT

Photography had long been used for an aid of drawing and had gradually acquired its status as an artistic medium. Since the late twentieth century, many photographers have been using drawing to create their photographic works. This recent phenomenon shows a shifted relationship between photography and drawing, what I call “from photography for drawing to drawing for photography.”This essay aims to illuminate ambiguous boundaries between photography and drawing in contemporary art photography by examining the long dynamic relationships between the two media. I explore how artists used early forms of photography such as camera obscura and camera lucida to achieve likeness of the object. These two devices required the use of artists’ hands to draw images reflected on or seen through them. However, the invention of the “photogenic drawing”, and daguerreotype in the nineteenth-century, made human hands unnecessary in acquiring likeness. Photography has since then interacted with major art movements of the twentieth-century in various ways. Recently contemporary photographers such as Jungjin Lee, Ku Sungsoo, and Jason Evans appropriate drawing techniques to make their photographs. I discuss these artists’ use of drawing in the context of the post-medium condition and further observe that the development of digital and printing technologies has called for the aesthetic of drawing for photography. My art historical analysis of the hybrid condition of photography and drawing provides a theoretical insight into a recent perspective for considering drawing as a meta-medium.

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