EXAM 1 Things Flashcards
One of the common uses for visual representation in the periods before photography was
to copy the world as it was seen
What is a Pantograph
bar that you can trace to make a large object small
What are Shadow portraits
Etching a person’s soul by drawing a person’s shadow or silhouette
What does camera obscura mean?
dark room
What does camera lucida mean?
light room
Who is Chuck Close?
A photorealist, photographer, painter
What does a photorealist do?
Studies a photograph and reproduces it as realistic as possible in another medium
Why is the self portrait of a drowned man important?
The first picture to show the world as it is not
Who is Charles Baudelaire?
He is an art critic, poet and translator for Edgar Allen Poe
What does Charles Baudelaire believe?
Photography is not art, it’s just to record
What is Nadar known for?
He was the first to take aerial photographs with his hot air balloon and the first to use artificial lighting
What was the significant of “Pierrot the Photographer”?
It was Nadar’s response to Baudelaire that photography is indeed an art.
When was the Daguerreotype made?
1839
What is Daguerrotype and who is responsible?
Photographic technique and created by Louis Daguerre
When was the Calotype made?
1841
When was the Cyanotype made?
1842
When was the Ambrotypes and Tintypes and Cartels de Visite made?
1854
When was the Stereographs made?
1849
What is albumen print made of?
Egg Whites
What did museums begin doing?
Collecting images of known photographers that were architectural, picturesque and beginnings of fine art
What are three problems with Daguerreotypes?
Bulky, many chemicals, only get one copy
What is a lithograph?
engraved versions of daguerreotype portraits were affixed to hand drawn bodies
What is a stereograph?
a low priced photograph that had mass production and mass distribution
what is combination printing?
Making a print with multiple individual negatives
how is a daguerreotype made?
photograph that is made on a piece of silver or a piece of copper covered in silver
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.
why was the collodion process/wet plate negative inconvenient?
necessitating a portable darkroom for use in the field.
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
who made the albumem print and when?
Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard in 1850
why was the albumen important?
it was the first commercially exploitable method of producing a photographic print on a paper base from a negative.
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
what was Niepce’s most successful process?
credited as the first inventor of photography
