History of Photo I: Quiz 2 Flashcards
The inventor of the double coated paper negative?
Blanquart-Evrard
The inventor of the albumen plate?
Niepce de St Victoire
The first photo-artist who developed the process of waxing the calotype negative?
Legray
Why was the waxed paper process such an improvement?
Gets rid of the paper fibers so it is sharper.
The inventor of the wet plate process?
Archer
This paper would be the paper of choice from the 1850’s to the early 1890’s?
Albumen
Who invented Albumen?
Blanquart-Evrard
Who were the inventors of the Ambrotype?
Archer & Fry
Describe how an ambrotype was made and for what purpose?
Ambrotype was made by coating a piece of glass with iodide and collodion and developing while still wet. It was a negative with a black velvet behind it. It was used for portraits and jewelry.
French photographer who, although his direct paper process never caught on, was a master of the calotype process and participated in the documentation of historic monuments and sites in France?
Bayard
The originator of the Carte de Visite process?
Dideri
What was a cabinet photograph?
A Carte de Visite on steroids. It was a large version of it.
This photographer travelled to the far east and made superb images with albumen plates with a developing process he jealously guarded?
Felice Beato
British photographer who photographed panoramic and stereoscopic views in Egypt and Palestine with the wet-plate process?
Frith
Briton considered the first war photographer because of his work in the crimea?
Fenton
Name at least 3 members of the heliographic society?
- Bayard
- Lesecq
- Legray
- Baldus
- Mestral
American portrait photographer whose friendship with Lincoln enabled him to send his photographers anywhere he wished?
Brady
Many photographers left the employ of Brady. Why?
Because of the absence of credit.
What was the Heliographic Society?
The French government selected five photographers to make photographic surveys of the nation’s architectural patrimony. They were intended to aid the Paris-based commission in determining the nature and urgency of the preservation and restoration of work required at historic sites throughout France.
Bonus 1: What is the difference between a dilute albumen print and a conventional albumen print?
Diluted is more matte and conventional is more glossy.
