Ch #1 Flashcards
Daguerreotype
First successful photographic process (1839-1960); Unique image on a silver copper plate with silver salts and it is expensive; Long exposure times
Camera Obscura “dark chamber”
Prototype thinking for the camera; Hard architectural lines; People who weren’t skilled at painting during the time could easily use it and more artist were able to make mass production of them and make good money
Calotype
Invented by William Henry Fox Talbot in the 1830s; Sheet of paper coated with silver chloride was exposed to light in a camera obscura
The developing process permitted much shorter exposure times in the camera, down from one hour to one minute; The ‘negative’ as Talbot called it, could yield any number of positive images by simple contact printing upon another piece of sensitized paper
Cyanotype
Developed by John Herschel in 1842
Is a photogenic printing process that produces a cyan-blue print; Use the chemicals: ferric ammonium and potassium ferricyanide
Anthotype
An image that is created from photosensitive material made from plants; Invented by Sir John Herschel in 1842; An emulsion is made from crushed flower petals or any other light-sensitive plant and a coated sheet of paper is then dried
Not a clear image, masked over in a way
The Physionotrace
An operator would trace a profile onto glass using a stylus connected to an engraving machine that replicated the gestures of the stylus onto a copper plate at a reduced scale
Camera Lucida
Invented in 1807; Optical instrument (not camera) and was designed to overcome a lack of drawing skill
Let’s one’s pencil be guided by the virtual image and trace the image on paper and was difficult to use in practice
**E.G. Robert, Phantasmagoria at the cour des capucines in 1797, 1831
These were super popular and he made a lot of money $$
The Beginning Philosopher Mo Ti
Discovered that light reflecting and passing through an object changed the object and flipped it upside down; He made the first prototype of the pinhole camera, 470-391 BCE
Joseph Nicpehore Niepce
View from the window at Le Gras, 1826-27; Took 8 hrs long to be exposed to light; Window from his science building and it still existed today
Portrait of Anna Atkins, Albumen Print, 1861
Photographic book, ‘Photographs of British Algae’, in 1843; Cyanotype photogram of Wood Horsetail, 1853
Portrait of William Henry Fox Talbot by John Moffat, 1864
He was a noted photographer who contributed a lot to photography
Hippolyte Bayard French 1801-1887
Self-portrait, salt paint, 1847; Claimed to created photography before the other person; Taken photos of plant specisms, landscapes, ordinary citizens
Birth year of photography
1839
Modernisms inventions in the 1800’s
Printing press, railroad, steamship
Get information out across the world
Imagery helped them sell things and people were drawn to it
