Week 3 Flashcards
The photograph “Fading Away,” taken in 1858 by _________________.
Henry Peach Robinson
“Fading Away’ was created by Robinson combining _____ __________ _________ to produce this intimate narrative of a family tragedy
5 separate negatives
Henry Peach Robinson’s “Fading Away” was an ________ silver print from _______ ___________.
Albumen
glass negatives
People panned “Fading Away” due to 1. the image’s perceived ___________________ and 2. it’s __________ subject matter
artificiality
morbid
___________ ___________ appreciated Robinson’s seemless blemnding of reality and artifice. This person was married to Queen Victoria, and he purchased a print of “Fading Away” and issued standing order for every major composite photograph that __________ would make.
Prince Albert
Robinson
A trip that provided an opportunity to discover cultural wonders of Europe and beyond, rite of passage for young aristocratic Englishman
Grand Tour
When was the Grand Tour popular?
18th Century
A mystical itinerary through Egypt and the Holy Land to sources of civilization
voyage au Levant
The voyage au Levant became popular amongst the ________ generation.
Romantic
A lavishly illustrated multivolume publication between 1809-1829 that carefully documented sites around the Nile
Description de l’Egypte
Who was responsible for creating Description de l’Egypte?
Napolean and his savants
Deciphered the hieroglyphs in 1822
Francois Champollion
Established first museum of Egyptian antiquities in Cairo in 1856
Auguste Mariette
Maxime Du Camp and Gustave Flaubert embarked on a visit to the _____ _______ in (year).
Middle East
1849
Earliest photographers chose the ______ _______ over the _____ __________ for its ease of handling during perilous voyages
paper negative
glass plate
For many early photographers traveling to Egypt, the work the produced would be _______________
the only known photographs of their careers
The expansion of travel occured in what year?
1860
With the ease of travel, William Hammerchmidt and Fèlix Bonfils chose to ______ ______ in the ______ _______
open studio
middle east
Earliest photographs of Egypt were either taken in the form of a _____________ or prints made from _______ and ________ negatives
daguerreotype
paper
glass
1861, this person presented the very first colour photo at The Royal Instituion
James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk Maxwell
presented first color photo in 1861
First color image was taken by ______ _______ of a tartan ribbon
Thomas Sutton
Creator of the three-colour method
James Clerk Maxwell
3 color method
James Clerk Maxwell
The foundation for of virtually all color processes whether electronic or chemical
The Three-colour method
3 color method - what are the 3 colors?
red, green, blue
Who was the first to claim they were the inventor of color photography in 1850/1851
Levi Hill
Who coined the idea for hillotypes?
Levi Hill
hillotype inventor
Levi Hill
Levi Hill’s color images were bad quality and he would not unveil ______ __________.
his process
in 1860 Niepce de Saint Victor worked on method of recording all colors on a light sensitive layer called ____________.
heliochromy
heliochomy
Niepce de Saint Victor
The first durable color photograph made according to Maxwell’s process was a set of three monochrome “_______ _______” by _____ ______.
color separations
Thomas Sutton
Invented the single-lens reflex camera and wide angle lens in 1861
Thomas Sutton
Remembered a the inventor of a method for reproducing colors by photography based on the interference phenomenon and who won the novel prize in Physics in 1908
Gabriel Lippman
The Countess da Catiglione and her series of 3 different portraiture series with sought after Pierson-Louis Pierson were the forerunner to _____ ______
self-portraits
One of first female photograhers who lived and worked in Kensington, London
Lady Clementina Hawarden
This early female photographer’s images depicther children in their own domestic setting
Hawarden
________ are common in Hawarden’s later photographs
costumes
Hawarden used the most popular printing process at the time - ________ prints made from _____ _______ _______
albumen
wet collodion plates
This female photographer was given a camera by her daughter and began her artistic journey at 48 years old
Julia Margaret Cameron
Julia Margaret Cameron was mother of 6 kids, deeply _______ and friends with many of Victorian England’s greatest minds
religious
Julia Margaret Cameron enlisted the help of her ______, family and _______ help, employing use of costumes
friends
househoold
Female photog with extraordinary ability to imbue her photographs with strong spiritual undertones
Julia Margaret Cameron
Created first commercially viable film technologies
Edison and Dickson
Invented the kinetograph and the Kinetoscope
Edison and Dixson
What was the kinetograph?
basically a camera
The Kinetoscope was a ______ viewer exhibition device used to watch __________ __________
single
kinetograph films
Creators of Cinematographe
Lumiere Brothers
A light weight all in one piece that made movies and exhibited them
Cinematographe
Cinematographe allowed for _____ _____
joint viewing
Designed the Maltese cross aka the “Geneva Drive”
Oskar Mester
Invented and patented the Latham Loop, another way to feed film into a projector
Woodmile Latham
in 1895, Edison bought the ____________ which used the “__________ ____________”
Vitoscope
latham loop
In 1888, introduced the Kodak and rolls of flexible films
George Eastman
