People Flashcards
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Joseph Neicephore Niepce
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- created first permanent image
- developed heliography
- first photographer
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Louis Jacques Daguerre
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- theatrical designer
- created daguerrotype process
- process was faster
- process gained popularity
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Henry Fox Talbot
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- made the paper negative and calotype
- used light sensitive salts
- charged a high fee for his process
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Anna Atkins
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- earliest female photographer
- took photographs of British algae using cyanotype impressions
- studied botany and scientific illustration
- Atkins’s 1843 book of algae was the first-ever published book of photograph
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Sir John Herschel
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- created vocabulary for photography
- photographed things that hadn’t been seen before (lunar crater of copernicus)
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John Plumbe Jr.
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- started first photography classes
- 25 photo galleries in 1845
- made plumbotype gallery
- pushed daguerrotypes
- set precedent for marketing and changed standard posing
7
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Southworth and Hawes
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- daguerrotype studio in Boston
- employed family for coloring and poses
- more expensive than other places
- larger daguerrotypes than normal
8
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John Adams Whipple and James Wallace Black
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- photographed the moon using a 22ft telescope
- struggled due to lighting
9
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Dr. Hugh Welch
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- photographed asylum patients for treatment and to raise money for asylum
- member of photography society
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Alphonse Bertillon
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- former police officer
- took mugshots
- brought specific measurements and anthropology
11
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Roger Fenton
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- took some of the 1st war photos
- had horse drawn photographic van
- photographed crimean war
- photographed “Valley of the Shadow of Death”
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Felice Beato
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- photographed dead soliders
- criticized for his subjects
- took war photos
- took travel photography photos (a lot of topographical and architectural views)
- Photographed places in conflict that he couldn’t normally go to but could due to war
13
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Matthew Brady
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- portrait photography
- photographed John Quincy Adams and Abe Lincoln
- He was kind of the big boss of Civil War photography
- He would send out teams of photographers to all the different battle sights and with the bigger battalions and have them take a bunch of pictures and bring them back to him
- He put his name on everything, but most of the photos taken during this time with his name on them, he didn’t even take.
- He had a studio in New York that he ran, where he took some photos of Abraham Lincon; he was credited with doing a carte de vista for Lincoln as well.
There was a photo of Ulysses S. Grant that he was also credited with taking
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Alexander Gardner
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- worked with Brady then started his own studio
- one of the first to take photos of death during war
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Timothy O’ Sullivan
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- worked with Gardner
- “a harvest of death”
- photographed dead bodies
- would stage photos for drama
- hired to take photos for land surveys
- more interested in showing more danger and aggressive scenes in nature
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Robert Cornelius
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- found that using bromine shortened the time it takes to make the picture
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Walcott and Johnson
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- they worked together to quicken the photographic process
- used a mirror to quicken processing time and used things like skylights to quicken exposure
- time quickened to 60 seconds
18
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Washington
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- son of a former slave and an asian woman, did photography to pay his way through college
- photographed John brown
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Presley Ball Sr.
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- son worked with him
abolutionist
photographed the family of ulysses s grant
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McPherson and Oliver
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- did medical exams with photography
- tried to help the army
- brought power to fighting the south
- Famous Photo: Whipped Peter, 1863, Baton Rouge, scarred back of a man at a medical exam
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Foucault
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22
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Wilhelm and Freidrich Langhiem
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- First to capture the solar eclipse since the invention of photography
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Duchenne
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- a neurologist that introduced electro-therapy
- mechanics of human physiognomy aka le mechanism de la physiognomie humaine (first book to illustrate human emotion)
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Bertillon
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- used to be a police officer; state to take pictures for them
- brought anthropology to the police system
- brought specific measurements to the police like head width
25
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Muybridge
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- worked with Leland Stanford to figure out how horses run
- Developed shudder techniques
-brought a one horse wagon as his dark room - his landscape images were competing with Watkins
- liked to use dramatic skies for photographs
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Baldus
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- would take multiple detailed negatives to get details from all angles; stood in 10 different spots
- would combine them to make one photo
27
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Le Secq
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- painter who worked for the commission
- known for formal composition and focused on angle of building with respect to the camera
- gives us fanciful detail
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Negre
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- created a faster lens
- worked for the commission
- photographed the working class
- played with softness of people but promoted strong stateliness of architecture
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Le Gray
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- worked for the commission
- trained chemist and technician
- credited for capturing moving leaves on trees
- worked with commission because they wanted to show the country side before industrialization moved out too far
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Diamond
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- made documents of patients suffering from mental disorders
- facial information was important for doctors studyign this stuff so they could build resources for future doctors to look back on
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Bernardo
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Agassiz
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- took photos of slaves and said that they were for a study of the human body and to compare European and African physiques but it was for slavery
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Vromen
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- credited with a less invasive way of photographing different cultures
- Wanted to photograph their way of life which was disappearing
- Spent time in villages and earned Native Americans trust
- helped diminish stereotypical distortion about native Americans and showed them as they are instead of a scene
34
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Curtis
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- 1890 opened his first photography business.
- travelled and lived with native Americans and took photos
- people didn’t feel that he was objective with his documentation
- some of his work is found in history books
most comprehensive photo library
People didn’t like how he romanticized his photo subjects
35
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Poolaw
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- first Native American professional photographer
- photographed what was happening in his tribe
- Learned aerial photography
36
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DuCamp
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- used the salted paper process from calotypes
- took photos of Egypt during an expedition
- solid his camera for a long gold embroidered material
- Created one of the first travel books
37
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Beato
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- partner with his brother in law and they photographed the crimean war
- showed dead people and the horrors of the battlefield
- first westerner to take pictures of people and places that had been closed to the west
- photographed India, China, Japan, and Korea
- photographed samurai
- did panoramas
38
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Babbit
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- Built the popularity for taking daguerrotypes in front of Niagra falls
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Watkins
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- One of the first landscape photographers
- created a series on Yosemite
- seen as someone who would show natural representation of landscapes
- stories that his images reached Lincoln
40
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Carrie Mae Weems
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- rephotographed Agassiz photographs with a red tint and added engraved words
- tried to give the subjects back their voices
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Morse
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- taught Daguerre how to use the telegraph
- photographed class from Yale
42
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Samuel J Miller
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photographed Fredrick Douglas
43
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Oscar Rejlander
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- thought to have learned the art of photography in one afternoon
- wanted to push the “art” of photography
- made 30 different negatives of his photograph
- Went through the same steps a painter would with models and sketches
- people thought his photograph was a violation of the true nature of photography because he controlled so much of the photo
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Lady Clementina Hawarden
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- set up studio in her own home because women could only photograph at home as a hobby
- started to use sunlight in new ways
- produced her own prints
- photographed her family
- trademark: the corners of her photos were torn from damage from being removed from photo albums
45
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Julia Margaret Cameron
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- her home was considered a meeting place for people in the arts
- liked romantic looking portraits, thought softer image made more mystery
- worked with light for soft focus and played with light and dark shadows
- made a glass roof chicken house into her studio
- photographed her niece Julia Jackson
- photographed sir John Herschel
46
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George Eastman
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- pioneer in photography
- wanted to make photography as convenient as a pencil
- created the Kodak company in 1892
- made brownie box camera
- made the word Kodak
- made a patent for the camera shutter
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