Ch #3 Flashcards
Paper Negative
Calotype
Paper Positive
Salt Print
Who patented the calotype? What year?
Patented by William Henry Fox Talbot in 1841 and also known as the Talotype
Latin translation of the calotype
Beautiful Impression
The differences between the calotype and daguerreotype
The calotype process first produced a photographic ‘negative’ in the camera, from which many ‘positive’ calotype prints could be made, whereas daguerreotypes were a one-off image
How did the calotype change the idea and practice of photography?
Allowed for the camera to be seen as an artistic expression; Allows us to have the positive and the negative; In the 1850’s, America became introduced to a method of making glass negatives with the wet collodion process
Romanticism and the Calotype
Emphasized emotion; Idealized qualities of rushing water, overgrown foliage, and dilapidated structures; It was a device to help viewers find their way to nature; Picturesque Romanticism was built on the sublime and the beautiful
Notable Calotypists
Louis-Désiré Blanquart-Evrard; Discovered in 1847 that soaking paper in emulsion made a more sensitive, eliminated streaking, and produced a longer tonal scale; Print made it more contrast or detail
The Talbotype Establishment
Founded by Willam Henry Fox Talbot in 1843; Multi-purpose facility: prints, books, prints of art objects, and valuable documents; Could have your our portrait taken, take classes, purchase a license to practice this skill, buy equipment and materials (expensive); Began the downfall of the calotype
The Pencil of Nature
The first book to be fully illustrated by Calotypes (instruction manual); Published in 1844-1846 by William Henry Fox Talbot
Beautiful
feminine and aesthetically pleasing, ex; a sunset
Sublime
masculine and refers to greatness with which nothing can be compared to, ex; a storm on the ocean
