EXAM 1 Things

Question 1

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

Answer 1

to copy the world as it was seen

Question 2

What is a Pantograph

Answer 2

bar that you can trace to make a large object small

Question 3

What are Shadow portraits

Answer 3

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

Question 4

What does camera obscura mean?

Answer 4

dark room

Question 5

What does camera lucida mean?

Answer 5

light room

Question 6

Who is Chuck Close?

Answer 6

A photorealist, photographer, painter

Question 7

What does a photorealist do?

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Why is the self portrait of a drowned man important?

Answer 8

The first picture to show the world as it is not

Question 9

Who is Charles Baudelaire?

Answer 9

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

Question 10

What does Charles Baudelaire believe?

Answer 10

Photography is not art, it’s just to record

Question 11

What is Nadar known for?

Answer 11

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

Question 12

What was the significant of “Pierrot the Photographer”?

Answer 12

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

Question 13

When was the Daguerreotype made?

Answer 13

1839

Question 14

What is Daguerrotype and who is responsible?

Answer 14

Photographic technique and created by Louis Daguerre

Question 15

When was the Calotype made?

Answer 15

1841

Question 16

When was the Cyanotype made?

Answer 16

1842

Question 17

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

Answer 17

1854

Question 18

When was the Stereographs made?

Answer 18

1849

Question 19

What is albumen print made of?

Answer 19

Egg Whites

Question 20

What did museums begin doing?

Answer 20

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

Question 21

What are three problems with Daguerreotypes?

Answer 21

Bulky, many chemicals, only get one copy

Question 22

What is a lithograph?

Answer 22

engraved versions of daguerreotype portraits were affixed to hand drawn bodies

Question 23

What is a stereograph?

Answer 23

a low priced photograph that had mass production and mass distribution

Question 24

what is combination printing?

Answer 24

Making a print with multiple individual negatives

Question 25

how is a daguerreotype made?

Answer 25

photograph that is made on a piece of silver or a piece of copper covered in silver

Question 26

how is collodion process/wet plate negative made?

Answer 26

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.

Question 27

why was the collodion process/wet plate negative inconvenient?

Answer 27

necessitating a portable darkroom for use in the field.

Question 28

who invented the collodion process/wet plate negative and when and what is it also called?

Answer 28

invented by Frederick Scott Archer in 1850 and also called ambrotype

Question 29

who made the albumem print and when?

Answer 29

Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard in 1850

Question 30

why was the albumen important?

Answer 30

it was the first commercially exploitable method of producing a photographic print on a paper base from a negative.

Question 31

who first used the carte de visite and who patented it?

Answer 31

Patented in Paris, France by photographer André Adolphe Eugène Disdéri although first used by Louis Dodero

Question 32

what was Niepce’s most successful process?

Answer 32

credited as the first inventor of photography