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I: Nouveau procédé employé pour obtenir des poses gracieuses

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I: Jabez Hong Making a Portrait in Richard Beard’s Studio

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Honore Daumier
artist, depicting a portraitist in action.
Lithograph.
c. 1856

representing the arduous/uncomforting task of sitting for the DT portrait.

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Small DT portraits replaced what?

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Miniature paintings.

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Matthew Brady

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Luxury portrait gallery owner & famous photographer.

Civil war photographer organizes teams but he is credited.

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Hiawatha Photographing

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by: Lewis Carroll

Parody of The Song of Hiawatha. Speaking to the arduous /uncomfortable task of sitting for the DT portrait.

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I: Charles Sumner

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Southworth and Hawes

1856

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I: The Misses Binney and Miss Monro

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Hill and Adamson

c. 1845

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I: Elizabeth Rigby, Later Lady Eastlake

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Hill and Adamson

c. 1845

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I: Redding the Line (James Linton)

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Hill and Adamson

c. 1846

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I: Cart-de-Visite of an Unidentified Woman (Princess Bonaparte-Gabriele)

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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.

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I: Sarah Bernhardt

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Gaspard Felix Tourachon. AKA Nadar
1865
The subject, one of the Pantheon Nadar - a group of famous people surrounding Nadar.
Collodian process

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I: George Sand

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Nadar
1877

Sand - French novelist, pen name, female.

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I: Strasbourg Cathedral

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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.

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I: The Flooding of the Rhône at Avignon

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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.

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I: Valley of the Huisine

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Camille Silvy
France
1858

example of Landscapes & Seascapes, painterly conventions of the layout.

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I: Brig Upon the Water

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Gustave Le Gray
1856

example of Landscapes & Seascapes
Long exposures + challenge of the movement of clouds

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I: The Colossus of Abu Simbel

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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

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I: Approach to Philae

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Francis Frith
c. 1858

Exploration of distant locals.

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I: Brigadier General John Ellis Wool and Staff, Calle Real, Saltillo, Mexico

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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.

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I: Valley of the Shadow of Death

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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.

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I: Abraham Lincoln

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Alexander Gardener

1865

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I: Lincoln Conspirators (image)

+ series

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Alexander Gardener
1865

Individual portrait
2X scenes of the gallows.

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I: A Harvest of Death

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Timothy H. O’Sullivan
1863
Gettysburg, PA

Graphic imagery - allowing for the photographing of dead bodies.
Engravings made

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I: Hester Street, Egg Stand

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Alice Austen
1895

Women, leisure activity
Shoots rural life of Stanton IS. + a rapidly changing Manhatten.
Her home is a national monument.

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Southworth + Hawes

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DT Firm
Quality, directed, popular
Albert Sands Southworth
Josia Johnson Hawes

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Hill + Adamson

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Calotype Firm
Hill, painter
Calotype has a more painterly effect.
Women, pattern, pose, not notable subjects, working class.

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Egypte, Nubie, Palestine et Syria

French Novelist

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Gustave Flaubert

1852

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Lala Deen Dayal

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Native (not colonial) photographer.
India
1974

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First war to be extensively covered.

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Crimean War (1854-1856)
Barren land
could not shoot bodies / the horrors of war

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Charge of the Light Brigade, Poem

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Tennyson
Poet Laureate
the 600
Battle of Balaclava  
Speed of publication. 
Fentons, Valley of the Shadow of Death.
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First war to be covered

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Mexican War (1846-1848)

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Most extensively covered 19c war

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Civil War (1861-1864)
Wet plate, no action scenes.
Only strategic sites and aftermath.

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Photographic Sketchbook of the Civil War, 1866.

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Alexander Gardener

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George Cook

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Confederate photog

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Rebel Works in front of Atlanta, 1864

Photographic Views of Sherman’s Campaign (1866)

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George N. Barnard.
Sherman’s photographer.
(also Burning Mills, Oswego NY)

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Stereo Views

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Stereoscope - viewer
Stereograph - image
Shot with double lens camera, 3D effect, Victoria-era entertainment.
George Eastman House, collection.

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Brings photography to the masses.

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Eastman-Kodak.

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Alexander Gardener

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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.

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Timothy O’Sullivan

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Photographer
Civil War - outstanding views of bridges, encampments, hospitals, and battlefields
Apprentices under Brady
Joins Alexander Gardener’s studio

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La Commission de Monument Historique, France

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Edouard Denis Baldus
Henri Le Secq
Part of Nepolean III efforts.
5 photographers were involved.

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George Eastman

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Kodak Camera & flexible film 1888

Maker of Dry Plates

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Dry Plates

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Easier to process (no portable darkroom, heavy material)
Less exposure time
1870’s Maddox

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Cathedral Rock, 2,600 Feet, Yosemite

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Carleton Watkins
c. 1866
Landscape Photography

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Sunrise, Yosemite Valley

Oil on canvas

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Albert Bierstadt
C. 1870
Landscape Painting

Oil on Canvas, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas

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Ancient Ruins in the Canyon de Chelle

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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)

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Meeting of the Rails, Promontory Point, Utah

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Andrew J. Russell,
1869
Railway Photography
what were the two lines?

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New Main Line at Duncannon

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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

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Hopi Maiden

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Adam Clark Vroman
1902
Native American Photography

Hopi do not allow photographers, due to them being assholes during this time.

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The Vanishing Race

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Edward S. Curtis,
c. 1904
Native American Photography

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Storm from La Bajada Hill, New Mexico

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Laura Gilpin
Pictoral Style (from early career)
1946
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas

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Church of San Lorenzo, Picuris, New Mexico

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Laura Gilpin
1963
Sharper focus (style from later career)

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The Buckley sisters roping horses in a corral.

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Evelyn Cameron

Women had to do everything to survive in the west.

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Roping a Calf

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Toni Frissell - Texas
c. 1939-1944
King Ranch, less romantic take from earlier Smith era.
Book of her work

Frissell, fashion photog, on location

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Day Herder with the JA Outfit Overlooking a Fork of the Red River

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Erwin E. Smith
1908,
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas

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Birthplace of American Ranching.

Helen and Bob Kleiburg.

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King Ranch

Toni Frissell shot there.

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Ellsworth L. Kolb (left) and Emery C. Kolb (right), c. 1912

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Grand Canyon

Important landscape for western photographers

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Kolb Studio, Grand Canyon, Arizona, c. 1911

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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.

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Canyon Snow, 1951

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Barry Goldwater
Arizona Politician

Shot 15,000 photos of AZ

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Erwin E. Smith

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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.

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