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Camera Obscura

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“Dark Room”

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Camera lucida

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Light projected image onto paper. Used for drawing and painting.

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Heliography

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Sun Drawing

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Niecephore Niepce

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“Inventor of Photography”

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World’s Oldest surviving image

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Heliography by Niepce in 1826

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Niepce 10 year collaboration

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Daguerre

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1837

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First Daguerreotype

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Daguerreotype

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Invented by Louis Daguerre. No multiple prints. Long exposure

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3 Advancements making portraits possible?

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  1. f/3.6 lens
  2. “Quick Stuff” Light sensitivity of plate increased by recoating with bromine.
  3. Gold Chlorine - Made the surface more durable
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Who invented the Calotype?

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Henry Fox Talbot

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1853

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First Calotype Negative

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Played around with camera Lucida on his honeymoon to Italy (Unsuccessful)

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Henry Fox Talbot

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Southworth and Hawes had a studio in?

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Boston

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Southworth and Hawes used?

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Dagguereotype

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Which photographers brought daguerreotype exposures down to 2 minutes rather then 3 hours?

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Southworth and Hawes

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What were head clamps used for?

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To keep subject’s still due to long exposures/

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Where were daguerreotypes popular and why?

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In NYC because it was sunnier than in London.

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The Wet Plate process was invented by?

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Frederick Scott Archer

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What does the Wet plate process do?

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processes a sheet of glass while still wait and can create a negative

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Ambrotype

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A type of wet plate process. Could become positive by placing on black paper. Usually enclosed in leather cases.

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Tin Type

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A type of wet plate process. Could expose positive onto metal plate. Immediate process, could be sent by mail to others or kept in your pocket.

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Who invented the Tin Type?

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Hamilton L. Smith

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Who was the FIRST war photographer?

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Roger Fenton

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What type of format did Roger Fenton use?

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The Wet plate process. He had a dark room in his wagon.

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Who photographed the controversial image " Shadow of the Valley of Death"?
Roger Fenton
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Who photographed the Civil War?
Matthew Brady
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Matthew Brady specialized in 17x20 inch enlargements called?
Imperials
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Who gave us the terms; hypo, positive, negative?
Sir John Herschell
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of the calotype?
Able to mass produce unlamented number of positives, but quality not as good.
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1840
Calotype
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What is the Pencil of Nature?
A book
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What else was Henry Fox Talbot known for?
He wrote a book called the Pencil of Nature
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What did Hill and Adamson use?
The calotype
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What did Hill and Adamonson specialize in?
Outdoor studio portraits. Faster exposures.
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Who created the first painting from photographs? Of what?
Hill and Adamson, of ministers of the New Church/
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What were Adamson and Hill's roles?
Adamson: Photographer Hill: Painter
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He was in debt after photographing the Civil War
Matthew Brady
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Why did some members from Brady's team of photographers leave?
Brady had control over images and dint give them money of copyright.
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Who photographed "Home of the Rebel Sharpshooter" (Moving the dead soldier)
Alexander Gardiner
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He photographed war and the dramatic midwest and took portraits of Native American's in their own environment.
Timothy O'Sullivan
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Joined Clarence Kings Geological Exploration of the 40th Parralell
Timothy O'Sullivan
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William Henry Jackson
Landscape/frontier photographer
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What size camera did William Henry Jackson use?
20x24
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Carte De Visites
Cheap albumen prints. Ridiculed by Daguerreotypists because of its poor quality.
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Who created Cartes de Visites?
Disderi in 1854
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What did Nadar use?
The collodian process
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The first to photograph from a Balloon?
Nadar
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The first photographer to experiment with electric light?
Nadar
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Which photographer photographed the catacombs?
Nadar
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What is "Le Geant"
Balloon photography
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Ingres
A french painted that hired Nadar to created portraits from which he painted.
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Which photographer preferred to use poor quality lenses?
Julia Margaret Cameron
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What was Julia Margaret Cameron known for?
She created powerful portraits and liked poor quality soft look.
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Who invented the Dry Plate process?
B.J Sacre and W.B Bolton
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What was the birth of the photo finishing industry?
The Dry Plate process
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What was a disadvantage of the Dry Plate Process?
Loss of sensitivity. Took 3x as long as the wet plate process.
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This emulsion freed photographers from the Wet plate process
Gelatin
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You press the button, we do the rest.
Kodak Motto
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1886
Kodak
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Who invented Kodak?
George Eastman
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Bitumen
Asphalt
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What was bitumen used for?
sensitive to light. paint solution on piece of glass for daguerreotype.
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Which process used high quality writing paper instead of glass?
Calotype
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Trompe L'oeil
visual illusion in art, used to trick the eye into perceiving 3D object
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Used natural light, reflectors and mirrors for portraits
Hill and Adamson
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Outdoor studio on Calton Hill
Hill and Adamson
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1843
Hill and Adamson create very first painting from photographs.
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Who discovered hypo?
Sir John Herschell
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What is hypo?
Hyposulphite of soda--> dissolves silver salts. Used to wash away unexposed chloride of silver
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John Shaw Smith
Irish photographer who photographed egypt and the pyramids
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Albumen paper
smooth paper coated in eggwhites
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Who invented Albumen paper?
Evrard
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Charlatans
sold photographers for 5-15c each, very poor quality
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Price War Response
Kept prices high, ensured high quality.
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1856
Tin Type
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Back glass with black paper and end up with a positive
Ambrotype
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Why are their no photo's of actual war combat by Roger Fenton?
Exposures were too long
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Steroscopic camera
Twins lens camera; creates 3D look
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Photographed the Kansas railway with stereoscopic camera
Alexander Gardner
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Photographed Lincoln 7 times and had the rights to his funeral
Alexander Gardner
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Created huge incredible landscape images, 20x24
William Henry Jackson
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Liverpool Dry Plate company
manufactured dry plates and sold them in 1867 - birth of the photofinishing industry. Photographer now able to buy instead of making them themselves.
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He used portraits to create caricatures?
Nadar
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1870s
Dry plate process
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1880s
Huge array of handheld cameras being sold

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