Photography (1837-1907 CE)

Question 1

Still life in studio

Answer 1

Daguerreotype (silver-plated copper to a mirror finish, treated with fumes to make it light-sensitive, exposed to a camera for various amounts of time depending on the lighting of the photo, fumed with mercury vapor to make it visible, removing the sensitivity to light through chemicals, the rinsed and dried)
First publicly announced photographic process

Question 2

Still life in studio IDs

Answer 2

Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre
1837 CE
Daguerreotype

Question 3

The Steerage

Answer 3

Formative document and is one of the first works of modernism
Men and women traveling to a lower-class section of a steam boat
Abandons the idea that photographs have to be like paintings
Embarks on a new path to explore photos as photos in their own right
Deals with geometric forms constructed in spatial planes within a photographic frame
Deals with class and gender issues
Demonstrates documentary photographs that convey transcendental truths and embody the principles of being “artistic”

Question 4

The Steerage IDs

Answer 4

Alfred Stieglitz
1907 CE
Photograuvure