Lesson/Week 1 Flashcards
Inventor of a light sensitive service
Niépce
When Niépce invested light sensitive surface, the ______________ ____________ ___ ________________ was born
basic principal of photography
Niépce’s first photograph
View from the Window of at Gras (1826)
Niépce photographed using a _______ _______ to expose a copper plate coated in silver and pewter
camera obscura
Phootographs would continue being light sensitive and eventually turn black until the invention of ________________, a chemical that reversed the light sensitivity of paper
Hypo
A chemical that reversed the light sensitivity of paper
Hypo
When was Hypo discovered?
1839
Louis Daguerre invented the _______ in (year)
daguerrotype
1839
The daguerrotype significantly reduces _______ ________ and created a ________ ______ but only produced a single image.
exposure time
lasting result
Daguerre and ________ were contemporaries
Talbot
William Henry Fox Talbot was from ________.
England
Who created the calotype method?
Talbot
What year was the Calotype method pattened?
1841
Inventor of the Calotype
Talbott
Inventor of a paper negative
Talbott - the calotype method
Inventor of new technology that involved the transformation of the ______ to a _______ image, allowing for more than just one copy of image
Talbott
Talbott’s famous photograph and the year
The Open Door (1844)
Talbott’s photographs allowed for much more ________.
detail
When was the Collodion method introduced?
1851
The Collodion method required _____ __________.
portable darkrooms
Process that involved fixing a substance known as “gun cotton” onto a glass plate, allowing for a shorter exposure time (3-5 minutes) as well as a clearer image
The collodion method
What was the Collodion method’s main downside?
Photographers had t carry portable dark rooms with them
Inventor of the Collodion method
Daumier
What method did Daumier invent?
collodion method
Known also for capturing first aerial photograph from a hot air balloon
Daumier
Daumier used a ______ negative
glass
Nadar Elevating Photography to the Height of Art (1862).
Daumier
What year was the dry glass plate invented, making the collodion method less labor intensive?
1867
In 1878, new technology decreased the _______ time to 1/25th of a second, allowing ________ ________ to be photographed without a tripod
exposure
moving objects
Eadward Muybridge’s famous work of art showing lowered exposure time and the ability to capture moving objects and the year
Galloping Horse (1878)
Inventor of the dry gelatin roll film
George Eastman
George Eastman invented what?
dry gelatin roll film
What year did Eastman develop the dry gelatin roll of film?
1888
Who produced the first small inexpensive cameras?
George Eastman
The invention of photography was announced simultaneously in France 🇫🇷 & England in what year?
1839
Inventor of the Heliograph
Niépce
Heliograph
Niépce
Niépce’s Heliograph was invented in in 1827 and is the earliest ___________ produced with the aid of the ______ _______ known to survive today
photograph
camera obscura
Heliograph means what?
sun writing
the Heliograph was invented by whom?
Niépce
What year did Niépce produce his “points de vue?”
1816
Legible but fleeting images discovered by Niepce in 1816.
points de vue
Inventor of the diorama
Daguerre
In 1829, what two early famous photographers entered into a formal partnership?
Niepce & Daguerre
Daguerre was from where?
France
Daguerre continued to make improvements after Niepce died and introduced his ____________ in __(year)__.
daguerreotype
1839
Improved upon Niepce’s Heliograph
Daguerre
A one of a kind image on a highly polished, silver plated sheet of copper.
A Daguerreotype
In 1829, Niepce and Daguerre formed a partnership to deal with the issue of how to make a ________ image using _______ and _________.
permanent
light
Chemistry
Year that Niepce passed away
1833
A noted astronomer and Daguerre’s main supporter
Arago
Daguerre made his daguerreotype process public in what year?
1839
Few of Daguerre’s photographs, notes, and his famous Diorama exist because why?
His lab burnt to the ground in 1839
The Daguerreotype spread rapidly across the world after its presentation to the public in ______ in ___(year)____.
Paris
1839
Photographic method that exhibits extraordinary detail and three-dimentionality.
The Daguerreotype
Although born in Europe, the daguerreotype was extremely popular in the _______ _______, especially in _________ _________ ________, where in the late 1850s hundreds of daguerreotypists vied for clients.
United States
NYC
Partnership lasting 19 years in USA that produced the finest daguerreotypes in America, portraits of famous people at the time
Southworth and Hawes
The artist most closely tied to the early years of American photographic process
Mathew B Brady
collodion-on-glass negatives were also known as
wet plates
By the onset of the Civil War, the _______ ________ had replaced the __________________ altogether
paper print
daguerreotype
Who founded the paper negative in 1839?
Talbot
Process employing a polished silver-plated peice of copper
the daguerreotype
Before the late 1850s in America, photographs were _______.
portraits
By 1860, portraiture was joined by _____ and _____ _______
landscapes
city views
A double photograph presented in such a manner that an observer looking through a stereoscopy could see a single image in three dimensions.
Stereographs
Stereographs were introduced in the US in the (year)’s but became truly popular in the late (year)’s
1840
1850
Stereograph is aka as
stereo view
The discovery by Talbot that wherever the light struck, the paper darkened, but whenever the plant blocked the light, it remained white is called
“the art of photogenic drawing”
the art of photogenic writing is attributed to
Talbot
Responsible for founding the Calotype process
Talbot
the word “calotype” comes from the Greek word “kalos” meaning ________.
beautiful
Talbot’s “exciting liquid” that brought out a latent image was essentially a solution of _______ _________.
gallic acid
Talbot patented the calotype process in what year?
1841
Who suggested using hypo to permanently fix a photograph?
Sir John Herschel
A more permanent means of “fixing” an image with ________ of soda was proposed by _________ and used by _________.
hyposulfite (of soda)
Herschel
Talbot
Who wrote “The Pencil of Nature” beginning in 1844?
Talbot
Talbot’s early photogenic drawings are so ephemeral and can never be exhibited or exposed to ______ without risk of change.
light
Calotypes were fixed with _______.
hypo
Inventor of the calotype process
Talbot
The 1840s were overwhelmingly dominated by what process?
the daguerreotype
A magically precise, one of a kind image on highly polished silver-plated sheets of copper
Daguerreotypes
Inventor of paper photography
Talbot
The photographic process using paper photography is called what?
the calotype
Calotype inventor
Talbot
Talbot’s calotype process lacked the clarity of the ________.
daguerreotype
What was the advantage of the calotype over the daguerreotype?
from a single negative of identical photographic prints could be produced
The calotype’s lack of clarity was viewed as more _______ that the daguerreotype.
artistic
In 1851, the first _____ _______ was formed.
photographic society
