EXAM 1 Things Flashcards

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One of the common uses for visual representation in the periods before photography was

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to copy the world as it was seen

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What is a Pantograph

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bar that you can trace to make a large object small

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What are Shadow portraits

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Etching a person’s soul by drawing a person’s shadow or silhouette

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What does camera obscura mean?

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dark room

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What does camera lucida mean?

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light room

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Who is Chuck Close?

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A photorealist, photographer, painter

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What does a photorealist do?

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Studies a photograph and reproduces it as realistic as possible in another medium

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Why is the self portrait of a drowned man important?

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The first picture to show the world as it is not

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Who is Charles Baudelaire?

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He is an art critic, poet and translator for Edgar Allen Poe

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What does Charles Baudelaire believe?

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Photography is not art, it’s just to record

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What is Nadar known for?

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He was the first to take aerial photographs with his hot air balloon and the first to use artificial lighting

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What was the significant of “Pierrot the Photographer”?

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It was Nadar’s response to Baudelaire that photography is indeed an art.

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When was the Daguerreotype made?

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1839

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What is Daguerrotype and who is responsible?

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Photographic technique and created by Louis Daguerre

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When was the Calotype made?

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1841

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When was the Cyanotype made?

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When was the Ambrotypes and Tintypes and Cartels de Visite made?

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When was the Stereographs made?

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What is albumen print made of?

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Egg Whites

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What did museums begin doing?

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Collecting images of known photographers that were architectural, picturesque and beginnings of fine art

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What are three problems with Daguerreotypes?

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Bulky, many chemicals, only get one copy

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What is a lithograph?

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engraved versions of daguerreotype portraits were affixed to hand drawn bodies

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What is a stereograph?

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a low priced photograph that had mass production and mass distribution

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what is combination printing?

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Making a print with multiple individual negatives

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how is a daguerreotype made?
photograph that is made on a piece of silver or a piece of copper covered in silver
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how is collodion process/wet plate negative made?
the photographic material was to be coated, sensitized, exposed and developed within the span of about fifteen minutes, necessitating a portable darkroom for use in the field.
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why was the collodion process/wet plate negative inconvenient?
necessitating a portable darkroom for use in the field.
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who invented the collodion process/wet plate negative and when and what is it also called?
invented by Frederick Scott Archer in 1850 and also called ambrotype
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who made the albumem print and when?
Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard in 1850
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why was the albumen important?
it was the first commercially exploitable method of producing a photographic print on a paper base from a negative.
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who first used the carte de visite and who patented it?
Patented in Paris, France by photographer André Adolphe Eugène Disdéri although first used by Louis Dodero
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what was Niepce's most successful process?
credited as the first inventor of photography