Photography Flashcards
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Daguerre
Boulevard du Temple
1838
French Photography
camera lens had to remain open for ten minutes, so even though it appears empty, carriages and people were driving/walking about
first “candid” photo: the shoe shiner
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Daguerre
The Artist’s Studio
1837
French Photography
carefully manipulated light in order to achieve dramatic contrasts of light and dark
still life was a common subject of early photography because of long exposure times
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Nadar
Portrait of Edouard Manet
1865
French Photography
lighting Manet’s face from above, so that the eyebrows shade the eyes, he has intensified the artist’s penetrating gaze
