History of Photo 1: Quiz 3 Flashcards
Bierstadt
Albert Bierstadt was an American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West.
Edward Anthony
was an American photographer and one of the founders of E. & H. T. Anthony & Company which was the largest manufacturer and distributor of photographic supplies in the United States during the 19th century.
PH Emerson
was a British writer and photographer. His photographs are early examples of promoting photography as an art form. He is known for taking photographs that displayed natural settings and for his disputes with the photographic establishment about the purpose and meaning of photography.
Carleton Watkins
- was an American photographer of the nineteenth century. Born in New York, he moved to California and quickly became interested in photography. He focused mainly on landscape photos, and Yosemite was a favorite subject of his. His photos of the valley significantly influenced the United States Congress’ decision to preserve it as a National Park.
- Invented development time factor
Timothy O’Sullivan
- was a photographer widely known for his work related to the American Civil War and the Western United States.
- 1st modern photographer because he is not trying to mimic a painting
Etienne Carjat
was a French journalist, caricaturist and photographer. He co-founded the magazine Le Diogène, and founded the review Le Boulevard. He is best known for his numerous portraits and caricatures of political, literary and artistic Parisian figures. His best-known work is the iconic portrait of Arthur Rimbaud which he took in October 1871.
WH Jackson
was an American painter, Civil War veteran, geological survey photographer and an explorer famous for his images of the American West.
Fry (Archer & Fry)
Peter Wickens Fry worked with Frederick Scott Archer, assisting him in the early experiments of the wet collodion process. He was also active in helping Roger Fenton to set up the Royal Photographic Society in 1853.
Nadar
Nadar was the pseudonym of Gaspard-Félix Tournachon. He was a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist, and balloonist. He became the first person to take aerial photographs and used wet plate process.
Oscar Rejlander
was a pioneering Victorian art photographer and an expert in photomontage. His collaboration with Charles Darwin on The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals has assured him a position in the history of behavioural science and psychiatry.
HP Robinson
was an English pictorialist photographer best known for his pioneering combination printing[1] - joining multiple negatives or prints to form a single image;[2] an early example of photomontage.[3] He joined vigorously in contemporary debates[4] in the photographic press and associations about the legitimacy of ‘art photography’ and in particular the combining of separate images into one.
Eadweard Muybridge
an English photographer important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion. His large photographs of Yosemite Valley made him world famous.
AJ Russell
Was a 19th-century American Civil War and Union Pacific Railroad photographer. He photographed construction of the Union Pacific Railroad in 1868 and 1869.
Julia Margaret Cameron
- was a British photographer. She became known for her portraits of celebrities of the time, and for photographs with Arthurian and other legendary or heroic themes.
- Glasshouse is the greenhouse where her studio is.
- “Annie” photo was her very first success
