innovation of photography Flashcards
“View from the Window at Le Gras” photographer
first photograph, Joseph Nicephore Niepce
“Latticed Window at Lackock Abbey” photographer
William Henry Fox Talbot
“Boulevard to Temple (Paris Boulevard),”
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, a daguerreotype
diorama
created by Daguerre, a different process compared to an obscura
camera obscura
created by Joseph Nicephore Niepce, a box, tent, or room with small hole in one side or the top. light from an external scene passes through the hole and is inverted and reversed used to get a more realistic portrait
Joseph Nicephore Niepce
created the camera obscura, formed a partnership with Daguerre to make a permanent image using light and chemistry, died In 1833 and hadn’t come up with a process
salted paper print
created by William Henry Fox Talbot
contact print
camera-less image, a negative
cyanotypes
blue print, created by Sir John Herschel, book written by Anna Atkins
Sir John Herschel
astronomer, created cyanotype process
negatives
show dark part of photographs, can be made from salt and soaked paper, paper negatives with sheets of glass coated with collodion, calotype, Talbot
positives
light parts show, heliography where copper-plated silver and pewter that uses the hardening of bitumen took 8 hours of exposure to see the image, daguerreotypes, Daguerre
calotype
salted paper technique made by Talbot, allowed creation of negative and multiple copies, the downside is that it took a long time to capture things and the photo was blurry, used for studies
Louis-Jacques Mandé Daguerre
was credited as the one with the earliest photograph, developed the diorama and sold it to the French government, formed a partnership with Niépce to make a permanent image using light and chemistry, took the Paris Boulevard, made the daguerreotype
daguerreotypes
created by Daguerre, a famous work is Paris Boulevard, long exposure time between 10 and 15 minutes, soft resolution, hypo permanance, crisp aesthetic, landscape, architecture, and potraits were subjects, offered one of a kind portraits, positives, used to record history, 1839
camera lucida
prism camera
fixer (hypo)
early process
