Lecture 11

Question 1

Who was Joseph Niepce and what was his contribution to photography?

Answer 1

• Who was Joseph Niepce and what was his contribution to photography?Was a french inventor who created the first photograph using heliography on a tin plate in 1826
• His process used light sensitive bitumen and turpentine but was not duplicable
• His photograph, View from the Window at Le Gras, is the oldest surviving photo

Question 2

How did Louis Daguerre build upon Niepce’s work

Answer 2

• He refined Niepce’s method, creating a daguerreotype, which produced detailed images but was also non-duplicable
• His work popularized photography and is often incorrectly credited as the invention of photography

Question 3

What was the significance of the Frederick Scott Archer collodion process?

Answer 3

• Introduced in 1851 the collodion process used ‘ready-to-use” glass plated coated with a light sensitive substance
• It made photography duplicable, marking a significant shift toward industrialization

Question 4

What was Andre Disderi’s contribution to photography?

Answer 4

• Introduced the carte-de-visite in 1854 a small affordable photographic print using the albumen process
• It became the most popular form of photography in the 19h century

Question 5

What are the six approaches to photography discussed in class?

Answer 5

• Portraiture
  
  • Focused on character expression, often indoors
  • Ex. Charles Baudelaire’s critique of portraiture
• Composite Photography
  
  • Staged photographs to control narrative
  • Ex. Henry’s Peach Fading Away
    Naturalism
• Opposed staged photography, emphasizing authenticity
  
  • Peter Emerso’s In the Barley Harvest
• Event Documentation
  
  • Photojournalism capturing historical events
  • Robert Howlett’s Great Eastern
• Social Photography
  
  • Documented working class lives
  • Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother
• Instantaneous Photography
  
  • Strive for objectivity
  • Alfred Stieglitz The Terminal