Review Flashcards
Exposure for the first recorded photo
8-9 hours
date of the first heliograph
1826
T/F: Daguerreotype negative allowed photographers to produce qualities of highly detailed reproductions
False
T/F:Daguerreotype was produced on highly polished glass
False
An average bright sunlight exposure exposure time of an early daguerreotype was
Several minutues
William Fox Talbot is credited with the first registration of a photographic process in England:
calotype
The calotype process uses:
paper negative
T/F: The calotype produces a very shiny image:
False
Hill and Adamson had a studio in 1843, primarily used the
calotype process
Alexander Gardner was famous for his photographs of
The American civil war
First photographer to cover Presidents Funeral
Alexander Gardner
He worked for Gardner while photographing the Civil War
Timothy O’ Sulivan
He is most known for his images of Native Americans, American Mid West and Panama
Timothy O Sulivan
T/F: George Eastman is the inventor of the wet plate process
False
Julia Margaret Cameron’s early photographs are important because:
Her portraits are the only photographic images that exist of authors, artists and actors at that time
This photographer used primarily window light and poor quality Lenses
Julia Margaret Camerson
First aerial photographer in 1858
Nadar
Gaspar Felix Tournachan
Nadar
This photographer and the cooper union speech “made me president of the United States”
Matthew Brady
Took the first photograph of the civil war at the battle of bull run
Matthew Brady
The main process used at the time of the American Civil War
The colloidal process
This is a non negative - positive image produce using the collodian process
The Ambrotype
The Calotype and Daguerreotype were replaced by a direct positive process around 1856
Tin Type
Direct positive made using the Collodian process
Tin Type
1856
Tin Type
Sodium sulfate, dissolved silver sulcate also known as:
Hypo
A highly polished plate is fumed in IODINE which turns the plate yellow. It is then exposed in a camera after which the plate is developed and fumed with heated mercury:
Daguerreotype
Took the photograph: home of the rebel sharpshooter
Alexander Gardner
took the photograph “Harvest of Death”
Timothy o Sulivan
Photographed the Shadow of the Valley of Death using photographic van
Roger Fenton
T/F: Calotypes were more popular for landscapes then portraits
True
1850
Albumen paper
He worked with the largest glass plates in history while photographing the American frontier
William Henry Jackson - 20x24
