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Dec 27, 1440
Gutenberg printing press invented
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Nov 30, 1450
Gutenberg Bible Printed
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Nov 30, 1486
the birth of venus
Sandro Botticelli showcased the birth of venus displaying focus on creating depth in painting -
Camera Obscura coined a term
The term "camera obscura" itself was first used by the German astronomer Johannes Kepler in 1604 -
First picture taken
Inventor Henry Fox Talbot invented and took first photograps using his own calotype process -
Daguerre takes one of the earliest photos of paris in 1838
Boulevard du Temple, Paris, Spring 1838, by Daguerre (includes the earliest reliably dated photograph of a person). The image shows a busy street, but because the exposure time was at least ten minutes the moving traffic cannot be seen. However, two men at lower left, one apparently having his boots polished and the other the bootblack, remained motionless enough to be distinctly visible. -
Edward Muybridge
Muybridge took photos to prove a trotting horse had all four feet off of the ground at Stanford's Palo Alto Stock Farm -
Edison premiers improved phonograph
Thomas Edison with his second phonograph photographed by Mathew Brady in April 1878 -
Zoopraxiscope
Eadweard Muybridge created what was considered to be the first movie projector, the zoopraxiscope. -
Coca Cola Logo Created
frank mason robinson created coco cola logo -
inspiration for kinetoscope
Edison first sees Muybridge's zoopraxiscope in his laboratory in West Orange -
Edison Patents Kinetoscope and Kinetograph
Edison sends out patent for his inventions the kinetoscope and kinetograph -
Kodak Camera available for the masses
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art noveau
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Ferdinand de Saussure accepts position at University of Genova
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Fred Ott's Sneeze
first motion picture recorded by Edison -
Kinetoscope arcades
Thomas Edison opens the first Kinetoscope parlor. 30 second movies with music playing. -
First film released
Lumiere brothers released the first motion picture of workers leaving their factory -
Alphonse Mucha creates works that inspire the Art Nouveau Movement
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Pablo Picasso Self Portrait
Picasso Painted self portrait in late 1901 -
A trip to the moon
george melies debuts a trip to the moon. -
First to use cinematics in movies
Edwin Stratton Porter's The Great Train Robbery was released. -
Lumiere brothers patented early color photography process
first to develop process for color in photography and film -
Clara Driscoll's employment terminated with Tiffany Co
Clara Driscoll is attributed with the design behind the most valueable Tiffany Lamps. -
Gropius founded the Bauhaus School
Walter Adolph Georg Gropius transformed art school into Bauhaus -
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Bauhaus
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The Gestalt Principles
Fritz and Laura Perls develop the Gestalt Principles from the Gestalt theory in the 1920's. -
paul klee began working at bauhaus
Paul Klee began working and shaping the bauhaus movement -
Lazlo Mahoney becomes instructor at the bauhaus
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art deco first appears in France
art deco inspired building in the united states, the GE Building, 30 Rockefeller Center, under construction, -
Modern Times Debut
Charlie Chaplin directs and starrs in Modern Times. -
Walker Evans
Walker Evans worked with FSA on Photographing the depressed in America -
Dorthea Lange concluded her work with the RA and FSA
From 1935 to 1939, Lange photographed the depressed and poor of america to bring awareness to the depression at home. -
Pearl Harbor Bombing
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Rosie the Riveter Propaganda Poster
J. Howard Miller was hired to create propaanda to inspire women to go to work during WWII -
War Propaganda Posters
he Office of War Information (OWI) Bureau of Graphics began creating and distributing propaganda posters. -
First mass produced tv set
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Hoffman and Medinger developed Helvetica
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Verdigo
saul bass creates legendary introduction to alfred hitchcock's Verdigo -
Psycho
saul bas works with tital sequence in Psycho -
David Marr Developed new theory for vision
In the 1970s David Marr developed a multi-level theory of vision, which analysed the process of vision at different levels of abstraction. In order to focus on the understanding of specific problems in vision, he identified three levels of analysis: the computational, algorithmic and implementational level -
Font began to evolve to descripe typefaces
rise of computer technology initiated the development of the term font in regards to typeface. -
Susan Sontag wrote essay regarding the pain of others.
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mad men premiers on AMC
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The Artist
modern day silent french film debues -
Micah Wright revamps old propaganda posters with modern message
the propaganda remix project
