WEEK1 BEFORE MIDTERM Flashcards
Niepce 1826
View from Niepce’s window at Gras. 1st photo
Heliograph
Daguerre
1832
Drawing
The Inauguration of the Temple of Salomon
Louis Jacques Daguerre
View from window
1838-39
Daguerreotype
Daguerre
Arrangement of Fossil Shells
1839
Daguerreotype
Hawes
photo of Albert Sands Southworth
1848
Daguerreothype
by Southworth & Hawes
subject: Rollin Herber Neal
1850
daguerreotype
Gros
Athens Acropolis: East facade of the Propylaea
Athens Greece
1850
Daguerreotype
Babbit
Tourists viewing Niagara Falls from Prospect Point
1855
Daguerreotype
Lerebours
Niagara Chute
1840
engraving
The Conceptual Basis of Photography
the human urge to make pictures that augment the faculty of memory by capturing time
Realism
depiction without distortion or stylization
zoetrope
rotating cylinder wtiht slits you could see into to see image moving
Joseph Nicephore Niepce
1824
developed permanant image system
process: coating piece of pewter with bitumen of judea desolved in lavendar oil, placing plate into camera obscura and making extended daylight exposure
Daguerre & Niepce start working together
1825-1833
collaborated via coded letters
Anouncement of photography
Count Arago
August 19, 1839
Academy of Sciences
Academy of Beaux Arts.
Educated upper class peeps went crazy.
William Henry Fox Talbot
invented salted paper print (CALOTYPE) 1841. Image and paper became one.
Photogenic Drawing
term Talbot used to describe early salted paper process
Calotype
Talbot
1841
iodized paper for making negatives
gallic acid, silver iodide, latent image, negative contact printed onto unexposed salted paper to form positive. Could make infinite number of prints from one negative. reduced time to minute in sunlight
Cyanotype
1842
Herschel
devised to make fast copies of his notes.
used in roll film cameras, shipbuilder working plans and copying line based documents. Allowed reduced images to microscopic size for easier storage
Anna Atkins
First book to be printed fully illustrated by Hershel’s invention: Cyanotype. “British Algae: Cyanotype Impressoins”
1853
Heliograph
an early type of photoengraving made on a metal plate coated with sensitized asphalt. Devised chemical treatment to fix image.
NIEPCE
Dagguerreotype
a photograph taken by early photographic process. Iodine-sensitized silvered plate and mercury vapor.
Southworth and Hawes
First great American masters of photography.
Work elevated to level of art.
“beautiful effects of light and shade,
and giving depth and roundness together with a
wonderful softness or mellowness”
1843-1863
Herschel
developed first glass plate negative (not colloidion)
invented cyanotype
named photography
British Algae
Cyanotype impressions
Anna Atkins
1853
first book to be printed using Hershel’s invention cyanotype
