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Week 3 Flashcards

1
Q

The photograph “Fading Away,” taken in 1858 by _________________.

A

Henry Peach Robinson

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2
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“Fading Away’ was created by Robinson combining _____ __________ _________ to produce this intimate narrative of a family tragedy

A

5 separate negatives

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3
Q

Henry Peach Robinson’s “Fading Away” was an ________ silver print from _______ ___________.

A

Albumen
glass negatives

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4
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People panned “Fading Away” due to 1. the image’s perceived ___________________ and 2. it’s __________ subject matter

A

artificiality
morbid

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5
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___________ ___________ appreciated Robinson’s seemless blemnding of reality and artifice. This person was married to Queen Victoria, and he purchased a print of “Fading Away” and issued standing order for every major composite photograph that __________ would make.

A

Prince Albert
Robinson

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6
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A trip that provided an opportunity to discover cultural wonders of Europe and beyond, rite of passage for young aristocratic Englishman

A

Grand Tour

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7
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When was the Grand Tour popular?

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18th Century

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8
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A mystical itinerary through Egypt and the Holy Land to sources of civilization

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voyage au Levant

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9
Q

The voyage au Levant became popular amongst the ________ generation.

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Romantic

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10
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A lavishly illustrated multivolume publication between 1809-1829 that carefully documented sites around the Nile

A

Description de l’Egypte

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11
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Who was responsible for creating Description de l’Egypte?

A

Napolean and his savants

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12
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Deciphered the hieroglyphs in 1822

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Francois Champollion

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13
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Established first museum of Egyptian antiquities in Cairo in 1856

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Auguste Mariette

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14
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Maxime Du Camp and Gustave Flaubert embarked on a visit to the _____ _______ in (year).

A

Middle East
1849

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15
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Earliest photographers chose the ______ _______ over the _____ __________ for its ease of handling during perilous voyages

A

paper negative
glass plate

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16
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For many early photographers traveling to Egypt, the work the produced would be _______________

A

the only known photographs of their careers

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17
Q

The expansion of travel occured in what year?

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1860

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18
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With the ease of travel, William Hammerchmidt and Fèlix Bonfils chose to ______ ______ in the ______ _______

A

open studio
middle east

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19
Q

Earliest photographs of Egypt were either taken in the form of a _____________ or prints made from _______ and ________ negatives

A

daguerreotype
paper
glass

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20
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1861, this person presented the very first colour photo at The Royal Instituion

A

James Clerk Maxwell

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21
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James Clerk Maxwell

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presented first color photo in 1861

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22
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First color image was taken by ______ _______ of a tartan ribbon

A

Thomas Sutton

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23
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Creator of the three-colour method

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James Clerk Maxwell

24
Q

3 color method

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James Clerk Maxwell

25
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The foundation for of virtually all color processes whether electronic or chemical

A

The Three-colour method

26
Q

3 color method - what are the 3 colors?

A

red, green, blue

27
Q

Who was the first to claim they were the inventor of color photography in 1850/1851

A

Levi Hill

28
Q

Who coined the idea for hillotypes?

A

Levi Hill

29
Q

hillotype inventor

A

Levi Hill

30
Q

Levi Hill’s color images were bad quality and he would not unveil ______ __________.

A

his process

31
Q

in 1860 Niepce de Saint Victor worked on method of recording all colors on a light sensitive layer called ____________.

A

heliochromy

32
Q

heliochomy

A

Niepce de Saint Victor

33
Q

The first durable color photograph made according to Maxwell’s process was a set of three monochrome “_______ _______” by _____ ______.

A

color separations
Thomas Sutton

34
Q

Invented the single-lens reflex camera and wide angle lens in 1861

A

Thomas Sutton

35
Q

Remembered a the inventor of a method for reproducing colors by photography based on the interference phenomenon and who won the novel prize in Physics in 1908

A

Gabriel Lippman

36
Q

The Countess da Catiglione and her series of 3 different portraiture series with sought after Pierson-Louis Pierson were the forerunner to _____ ______

A

self-portraits

37
Q

One of first female photograhers who lived and worked in Kensington, London

A

Lady Clementina Hawarden

38
Q

This early female photographer’s images depicther children in their own domestic setting

A

Hawarden

39
Q

________ are common in Hawarden’s later photographs

A

costumes

40
Q

Hawarden used the most popular printing process at the time - ________ prints made from _____ _______ _______

A

albumen
wet collodion plates

41
Q

This female photographer was given a camera by her daughter and began her artistic journey at 48 years old

A

Julia Margaret Cameron

42
Q

Julia Margaret Cameron was mother of 6 kids, deeply _______ and friends with many of Victorian England’s greatest minds

A

religious

43
Q

Julia Margaret Cameron enlisted the help of her ______, family and _______ help, employing use of costumes

A

friends
househoold

44
Q

Female photog with extraordinary ability to imbue her photographs with strong spiritual undertones

A

Julia Margaret Cameron

45
Q

Created first commercially viable film technologies

A

Edison and Dickson

46
Q

Invented the kinetograph and the Kinetoscope

A

Edison and Dixson

47
Q

What was the kinetograph?

A

basically a camera

48
Q

The Kinetoscope was a ______ viewer exhibition device used to watch __________ __________

A

single
kinetograph films

49
Q

Creators of Cinematographe

A

Lumiere Brothers

50
Q

A light weight all in one piece that made movies and exhibited them

A

Cinematographe

51
Q

Cinematographe allowed for _____ _____

A

joint viewing

52
Q

Designed the Maltese cross aka the “Geneva Drive”

A

Oskar Mester

53
Q

Invented and patented the Latham Loop, another way to feed film into a projector

A

Woodmile Latham

54
Q

in 1895, Edison bought the ____________ which used the “__________ ____________”

A

Vitoscope
latham loop

55
Q

In 1888, introduced the Kodak and rolls of flexible films

A

George Eastman

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