Ch #2 Flashcards
What is a daguerreotype?
How did the daguerreotype revolutionize the photographic industry? What is its use?
How did the daguerreotype function as a tool for civil rights activists?
It could show slavery and how it made African Americans less than whites and degraded who they were
Why was it most commonly practiced with children?
Families whose children passed away, were used mostly in these because they would be still and easy to photograph
How were the daguerreotypes frightening to the public?
The photos took so long to be exposed so the person posing in the photo couldn’t be smiling or laughing so it looks creepy
Who invented the daguerroetype?
Louis Daguere
What key role did Matthew Brady play with the daguerroetype?
Entrepreneurial skills and celebrity played a key role in establishing the daguerreotype portrait as part of the 19th century New York’s visual culture; Opened his first daguerreotype miniature gallery in New York in 1844
