Exam 2 Flashcards
I: Nouveau procédé employé pour obtenir des poses gracieuses
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I: Jabez Hong Making a Portrait in Richard Beard’s Studio
Honore Daumier
artist, depicting a portraitist in action.
Lithograph.
c. 1856
representing the arduous/uncomforting task of sitting for the DT portrait.
Small DT portraits replaced what?
Miniature paintings.
Matthew Brady
Luxury portrait gallery owner & famous photographer.
Civil war photographer organizes teams but he is credited.
Hiawatha Photographing
by: Lewis Carroll
Parody of The Song of Hiawatha. Speaking to the arduous /uncomfortable task of sitting for the DT portrait.
I: Charles Sumner
Southworth and Hawes
1856
I: The Misses Binney and Miss Monro
Hill and Adamson
c. 1845
I: Elizabeth Rigby, Later Lady Eastlake
Hill and Adamson
c. 1845
I: Redding the Line (James Linton)
Hill and Adamson
c. 1846
I: Cart-de-Visite of an Unidentified Woman (Princess Bonaparte-Gabriele)
André Adolphe Eugène Disdéri
c. 1860-65
small, cheap, likenesses.
Disdéri invented this quadruple lens camera for multiple likenesses of the same image. similar to school photos.
I: Sarah Bernhardt
Gaspard Felix Tourachon. AKA Nadar
1865
The subject, one of the Pantheon Nadar - a group of famous people surrounding Nadar.
Collodian process
I: George Sand
Nadar
1877
Sand - French novelist, pen name, female.
I: Strasbourg Cathedral
Henri Le Secq
1851
Architecture and Travel
Secq is part of the La Commission de Monument Historique, France, part of Nepolean III effors.
5 photographers were involved.
I: The Flooding of the Rhône at Avignon
Edouard Denis Baldus
1856
Architecture and Travel
Baldus is part of the La Commission de Monument Historique, France, part of Nepolean III effors.
5 photographers were involved.
I: Valley of the Huisine
Camille Silvy
France
1858
example of Landscapes & Seascapes, painterly conventions of the layout.
I: Brig Upon the Water
Gustave Le Gray
1856
example of Landscapes & Seascapes
Long exposures + challenge of the movement of clouds
I: The Colossus of Abu Simbel
Maxime du Camp (photographer)
c. 1850
Calotype
Exploration of distant locals, Egypt.
Traveled with writer, Gustave Flaubert.
Image featured in his 1852 book Egypt, Nubia, Palestine, and Syria
I: Approach to Philae
Francis Frith
c. 1858
Exploration of distant locals.
I: Brigadier General John Ellis Wool and Staff, Calle Real, Saltillo, Mexico
c. 1847
Daguerreotype, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth Texas.
The Mexican War was the first war to be covered. 1st extant war photography came from this war.
Only 50 DT remain.
I: Valley of the Shadow of Death
Roger Fenton
British
1855
Prolific photographer of this war with Robertson. Barren land, no bodies could be shot, offices, Charge of the Light Brigade, Tennyson.
Fenton replaced by Robertson - Balaclava Harbour photo.
I: Abraham Lincoln
Alexander Gardener
1865
I: Lincoln Conspirators (image)
+ series
Alexander Gardener
1865
Individual portrait
2X scenes of the gallows.
I: A Harvest of Death
Timothy H. O’Sullivan
1863
Gettysburg, PA
Graphic imagery - allowing for the photographing of dead bodies.
Engravings made
I: Hester Street, Egg Stand
Alice Austen
1895
Women, leisure activity
Shoots rural life of Stanton IS. + a rapidly changing Manhatten.
Her home is a national monument.
Southworth + Hawes
DT Firm
Quality, directed, popular
Albert Sands Southworth
Josia Johnson Hawes
Hill + Adamson
Calotype Firm
Hill, painter
Calotype has a more painterly effect.
Women, pattern, pose, not notable subjects, working class.
Egypte, Nubie, Palestine et Syria
French Novelist
Gustave Flaubert
1852
Lala Deen Dayal
Native (not colonial) photographer.
India
1974
First war to be extensively covered.
Crimean War (1854-1856)
Barren land
could not shoot bodies / the horrors of war
Charge of the Light Brigade, Poem
Tennyson Poet Laureate the 600 Battle of Balaclava Speed of publication. Fentons, Valley of the Shadow of Death.
First war to be covered
Mexican War (1846-1848)
Most extensively covered 19c war
Civil War (1861-1864)
Wet plate, no action scenes.
Only strategic sites and aftermath.
Photographic Sketchbook of the Civil War, 1866.
Alexander Gardener
George Cook
Confederate photog
Rebel Works in front of Atlanta, 1864
Photographic Views of Sherman’s Campaign (1866)
George N. Barnard.
Sherman’s photographer.
(also Burning Mills, Oswego NY)
Stereo Views
Stereoscope - viewer
Stereograph - image
Shot with double lens camera, 3D effect, Victoria-era entertainment.
George Eastman House, collection.
Brings photography to the masses.
Eastman-Kodak.
Alexander Gardener
Photographer
Civil War
McClendon’s Staff - maps and charts of war
Brady’s WA Gallery Director
Established own studio 1862
Lincoln and his Conspirators
Photographic Sketchbook of the Civil War, 1866.
Timothy O’Sullivan
Photographer
Civil War - outstanding views of bridges, encampments, hospitals, and battlefields
Apprentices under Brady
Joins Alexander Gardener’s studio
La Commission de Monument Historique, France
Edouard Denis Baldus
Henri Le Secq
Part of Nepolean III efforts.
5 photographers were involved.
George Eastman
Kodak Camera & flexible film 1888
Maker of Dry Plates
Dry Plates
Easier to process (no portable darkroom, heavy material)
Less exposure time
1870’s Maddox
Cathedral Rock, 2,600 Feet, Yosemite
Carleton Watkins
c. 1866
Landscape Photography
Sunrise, Yosemite Valley
Oil on canvas
Albert Bierstadt
C. 1870
Landscape Painting
Oil on Canvas, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Ancient Ruins in the Canyon de Chelle
Timothy O’Sullivan, Ancient Ruins in the Canyon de Chelle, 1873
[then New Mexico territory, now Arizona]
Landscape Photography
Wet Plate
Traveled with Thomas Moran (painter)
Meeting of the Rails, Promontory Point, Utah
Andrew J. Russell,
1869
Railway Photography
what were the two lines?
New Main Line at Duncannon
William Rau
1906
Railway Photography
Commissioned by Pennsylvania Railroad to increase ridership. 450 shots along routes.
Taken with a Mammoth Camera
18*22 glass plate negative
Hopi Maiden
Adam Clark Vroman
1902
Native American Photography
Hopi do not allow photographers, due to them being assholes during this time.
The Vanishing Race
Edward S. Curtis,
c. 1904
Native American Photography
Storm from La Bajada Hill, New Mexico
Laura Gilpin
Pictoral Style (from early career)
1946
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Church of San Lorenzo, Picuris, New Mexico
Laura Gilpin
1963
Sharper focus (style from later career)
The Buckley sisters roping horses in a corral.
Evelyn Cameron
Women had to do everything to survive in the west.
Roping a Calf
Toni Frissell - Texas
c. 1939-1944
King Ranch, less romantic take from earlier Smith era.
Book of her work
Frissell, fashion photog, on location
Day Herder with the JA Outfit Overlooking a Fork of the Red River
Erwin E. Smith
1908,
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Birthplace of American Ranching.
Helen and Bob Kleiburg.
King Ranch
Toni Frissell shot there.
Ellsworth L. Kolb (left) and Emery C. Kolb (right), c. 1912
Grand Canyon
Important landscape for western photographers
Kolb Studio, Grand Canyon, Arizona, c. 1911
1903
Opened 1903 - 1976
Emery + Ellsworth
Sold photos to tourists coming long before a national park was formed
South Rim
Bright Angel trail
Brought to the park by the Santa Fe Railway.
Canyon Snow, 1951
Barry Goldwater
Arizona Politician
Shot 15,000 photos of AZ
Erwin E. Smith
1905-1915 captured most of his images
The ‘cowboy photographer’,
Evokes painters, Remmington, and Russell.
Traditional “western” movies
Texas Ranch Life, more romantic than Frissell.
Amon Carter Museum
From Texas. Bonham.
