Exam 2

Question 1

I: Nouveau procédé employé pour obtenir des poses gracieuses

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I: Jabez Hong Making a Portrait in Richard Beard’s Studio

Answer 1

Honore Daumier
artist, depicting a portraitist in action.
Lithograph.
c. 1856

representing the arduous/uncomforting task of sitting for the DT portrait.

Question 2

Small DT portraits replaced what?

Answer 2

Miniature paintings.

Question 3

Matthew Brady

Answer 3

Luxury portrait gallery owner & famous photographer.

Civil war photographer organizes teams but he is credited.

Question 4

Hiawatha Photographing

Answer 4

by: Lewis Carroll

Parody of The Song of Hiawatha. Speaking to the arduous /uncomfortable task of sitting for the DT portrait.

Question 5

I: Charles Sumner

Answer 5

Southworth and Hawes

1856

Question 6

I: The Misses Binney and Miss Monro

Answer 6

Hill and Adamson

c. 1845

Question 7

I: Elizabeth Rigby, Later Lady Eastlake

Answer 7

Hill and Adamson

c. 1845

Question 8

I: Redding the Line (James Linton)

Answer 8

Hill and Adamson

c. 1846

Question 9

I: Cart-de-Visite of an Unidentified Woman (Princess Bonaparte-Gabriele)

Answer 9

André Adolphe Eugène Disdéri
c. 1860-65
small, cheap, likenesses.
Disdéri invented this quadruple lens camera for multiple likenesses of the same image. similar to school photos.

Question 10

I: Sarah Bernhardt

Answer 10

Gaspard Felix Tourachon. AKA Nadar
1865
The subject, one of the Pantheon Nadar - a group of famous people surrounding Nadar.
Collodian process

Question 11

I: George Sand

Answer 11

Nadar
1877

Sand - French novelist, pen name, female.

Question 12

I: Strasbourg Cathedral

Answer 12

Henri Le Secq
1851

Architecture and Travel
Secq is part of the La Commission de Monument Historique, France, part of Nepolean III effors.
5 photographers were involved.

Question 13

I: The Flooding of the Rhône at Avignon

Answer 13

Edouard Denis Baldus

1856

Architecture and Travel
Baldus is part of the La Commission de Monument Historique, France, part of Nepolean III effors.
5 photographers were involved.

Question 14

I: Valley of the Huisine

Answer 14

Camille Silvy
France
1858

example of Landscapes & Seascapes, painterly conventions of the layout.

Question 15

I: Brig Upon the Water

Answer 15

Gustave Le Gray
1856

example of Landscapes & Seascapes
Long exposures + challenge of the movement of clouds

Question 16

I: The Colossus of Abu Simbel

Answer 16

Maxime du Camp (photographer)
c. 1850
Calotype
Exploration of distant locals, Egypt.

Traveled with writer, Gustave Flaubert.
Image featured in his 1852 book Egypt, Nubia, Palestine, and Syria

Question 17

I: Approach to Philae

Answer 17

Francis Frith
c. 1858

Exploration of distant locals.

Question 18

I: Brigadier General John Ellis Wool and Staff, Calle Real, Saltillo, Mexico

Answer 18

c. 1847
Daguerreotype, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth Texas.

The Mexican War was the first war to be covered. 1st extant war photography came from this war.

Only 50 DT remain.

Question 19

I: Valley of the Shadow of Death

Answer 19

Roger Fenton
British
1855

Prolific photographer of this war with Robertson. Barren land, no bodies could be shot, offices, Charge of the Light Brigade, Tennyson.

Fenton replaced by Robertson - Balaclava Harbour photo.

Question 20

I: Abraham Lincoln

Answer 20

Alexander Gardener

1865

Question 21

I: Lincoln Conspirators (image)

+ series

Answer 21

Alexander Gardener
1865

Individual portrait
2X scenes of the gallows.

Question 22

I: A Harvest of Death

Answer 22

Timothy H. O’Sullivan
1863
Gettysburg, PA

Graphic imagery - allowing for the photographing of dead bodies.
Engravings made

Question 23

I: Hester Street, Egg Stand

Answer 23

Alice Austen
1895

Women, leisure activity
Shoots rural life of Stanton IS. + a rapidly changing Manhatten.
Her home is a national monument.

Question 24

Southworth + Hawes

Answer 24

DT Firm
Quality, directed, popular
Albert Sands Southworth
Josia Johnson Hawes

Question 25

Hill + Adamson

Answer 25

Calotype Firm Hill, painter Calotype has a more painterly effect. Women, pattern, pose, not notable subjects, working class.

Question 26

Egypte, Nubie, Palestine et Syria | French Novelist

Answer 26

Gustave Flaubert | 1852

Question 27

Lala Deen Dayal

Answer 27

Native (not colonial) photographer. India 1974

Question 28

First war to be extensively covered.

Answer 28

Crimean War (1854-1856) Barren land could not shoot bodies / the horrors of war

Question 29

Charge of the Light Brigade, Poem

Answer 29

``` Tennyson Poet Laureate the 600 Battle of Balaclava Speed of publication. Fentons, Valley of the Shadow of Death. ```

Question 30

First war to be covered

Answer 30

Mexican War (1846-1848)

Question 31

Most extensively covered 19c war

Answer 31

Civil War (1861-1864) Wet plate, no action scenes. Only strategic sites and aftermath.

Question 32

Photographic Sketchbook of the Civil War, 1866.

Answer 32

Alexander Gardener

Question 33

George Cook

Answer 33

Confederate photog

Question 34

Rebel Works in front of Atlanta, 1864 | Photographic Views of Sherman’s Campaign (1866)

Answer 34

George N. Barnard. Sherman's photographer. (also Burning Mills, Oswego NY)

Question 35

Stereo Views

Answer 35

Stereoscope - viewer Stereograph - image Shot with double lens camera, 3D effect, Victoria-era entertainment. George Eastman House, collection.

Question 36

Brings photography to the masses.

Answer 36

Eastman-Kodak.

Question 37

Alexander Gardener

Answer 37

Photographer Civil War McClendon's Staff - maps and charts of war Brady's WA Gallery Director Established own studio 1862 Lincoln and his Conspirators Photographic Sketchbook of the Civil War, 1866.

Question 38

Timothy O’Sullivan

Answer 38

Photographer Civil War - outstanding views of bridges, encampments, hospitals, and battlefields Apprentices under Brady Joins Alexander Gardener's studio

Question 39

La Commission de Monument Historique, France

Answer 39

Edouard Denis Baldus Henri Le Secq Part of Nepolean III efforts. 5 photographers were involved.

Question 40

George Eastman

Answer 40

Kodak Camera & flexible film 1888 | Maker of Dry Plates

Question 41

Dry Plates

Answer 41

Easier to process (no portable darkroom, heavy material) Less exposure time 1870's Maddox

Question 42

Cathedral Rock, 2,600 Feet, Yosemite

Answer 42

Carleton Watkins c. 1866 Landscape Photography

Question 43

Sunrise, Yosemite Valley | Oil on canvas

Answer 43

Albert Bierstadt C. 1870 Landscape Painting Oil on Canvas, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas

Question 44

Ancient Ruins in the Canyon de Chelle

Answer 44

Timothy O’Sullivan, Ancient Ruins in the Canyon de Chelle, 1873 [then New Mexico territory, now Arizona] Landscape Photography Wet Plate Traveled with Thomas Moran (painter)

Question 45

Meeting of the Rails, Promontory Point, Utah

Answer 45

Andrew J. Russell, 1869 Railway Photography what were the two lines?

Question 46

New Main Line at Duncannon

Answer 46

William Rau 1906 Railway Photography Commissioned by Pennsylvania Railroad to increase ridership. 450 shots along routes. Taken with a Mammoth Camera 18*22 glass plate negative

Question 47

Hopi Maiden

Answer 47

Adam Clark Vroman 1902 Native American Photography Hopi do not allow photographers, due to them being assholes during this time.

Question 48

The Vanishing Race

Answer 48

Edward S. Curtis, c. 1904 Native American Photography

Question 49

Storm from La Bajada Hill, New Mexico

Answer 49

Laura Gilpin Pictoral Style (from early career) 1946 Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas

Question 50

Church of San Lorenzo, Picuris, New Mexico

Answer 50

Laura Gilpin 1963 Sharper focus (style from later career)

Question 51

The Buckley sisters roping horses in a corral.

Answer 51

Evelyn Cameron | Women had to do everything to survive in the west.

Question 52

Roping a Calf

Answer 52

Toni Frissell - Texas c. 1939-1944 King Ranch, less romantic take from earlier Smith era. Book of her work Frissell, fashion photog, on location

Question 53

Day Herder with the JA Outfit Overlooking a Fork of the Red River

Answer 53

Erwin E. Smith 1908, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas

Question 54

Birthplace of American Ranching. | Helen and Bob Kleiburg.

Answer 54

King Ranch | Toni Frissell shot there.

Question 55

Ellsworth L. Kolb (left) and Emery C. Kolb (right), c. 1912

Answer 55

Grand Canyon | Important landscape for western photographers

Question 56

Kolb Studio, Grand Canyon, Arizona, c. 1911

Answer 56

1903 Opened 1903 - 1976 Emery + Ellsworth Sold photos to tourists coming long before a national park was formed South Rim Bright Angel trail Brought to the park by the Santa Fe Railway.

Question 57

Canyon Snow, 1951

Answer 57

Barry Goldwater Arizona Politician Shot 15,000 photos of AZ

Question 58

Erwin E. Smith

Answer 58

1905-1915 captured most of his images The 'cowboy photographer', Evokes painters, Remmington, and Russell. Traditional "western" movies Texas Ranch Life, more romantic than Frissell. Amon Carter Museum From Texas. Bonham.