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what are the characteristics of an Ambrotype
- glass
- negative AND possitive
- whitened glass then put on black fabric to invert negative
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What are the characteristics of Tintypes (or ferrotype)?
- Positive on black metal
- Mirror Image
- Very affordable
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What are the characteristics of Dry Plate?
- No darkroom to cary with you
- Reproducable
- Heated plates
- more travel portraiture
- requires a shutter
- use of light meter is required
- very fragile
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What are the characteristics of Flexible Film?
- Invented by George Eastman
- kodak/brownie camera
- used with cartridge system
- Kodachrome- color migration
- "you push the button, we do the rest"
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what are the characteristics of Daguerreotypes?
- Sharp
- not reproducible
- "mirror with a memory"
- longish exposure
- mirror image (upside down and backwards)
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What are the characteristics of Calotypes?
- negative
- reproducable
- painterly
- paper negative
- shorter exposure
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What did Sr. John Herschel do?
- coined the terms "photography" and "snapshot"
- made fixer
- invented cyanotype
- invented anthotype
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What are the characteristics of wet collodion?
- sharp
- reproducible
- has to be wet when it is exposed and developed
- blue sensitive sky
- have to take the darkroom with you
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Who invented Carte de visite cards?
Andre adolphe Disderi in 1854
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What is the date of the discovery of Sunprints?
1802
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What is the date of the discovery of the camera lucida?
1866
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What date was the silver reacting to light discovered? (bottles)
1727
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What date was the daguerreotype announced?
January 7, 1839
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What date was the daguerreotype demonstrated?
August 19, 1839
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What did Niepce invent/discover and when?
- 1st image
- print making process
- 1839
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What did talbot contribute and when?
- book: pencil of nature
- calotype patent
- presents photogenic drawings on January 31, 1839
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What did Anna Atkins do?
made the first REAL photo book
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who invented cabinet cards?
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Who invented Kodachrome?
- Man & Godouski
- "took god and man to create color photography"
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Who invented Photoshop?
Thomas Knoll
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Who invented the Tintype?
Adolphe Martin
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Who introduced Wet Collodion process?
Fredrick scott Archer
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What did John Parker Maynard discover?
Collodion by dissolving guncotton in ether
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Who invented the stereoscope and stereocards?
Sir David Brewster
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Modernism
- overriding objective: embracing reflection of industrial revolution (percision, detail, repetition) WWI helped bring in the movement
- all about shape, form, and line
- no manipulations
- Major players: paul strand, edward weston, ansel adams, imogen cunningham, hearfeild, jacob riis, Lewis Hine
- F64 group
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Post-Modernism
- about deconstruction, conceptual, rebelling against modernism
- didn't want idealism/perfection
- hated form and shape
- landscapes become "man made"
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what role do critics and museums play on photography as an art?
Moma: gets to decide what is acceptable in art
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Pictrialism
- photography as an art
- used "effects" burning/dodging, craping, kicked tripod, soft lenses, etc
- dream-like subjects and narrative
- lots of darkroom manipulations
- printed on platinum, carbon prints, photograveurs, aka difficult processes
- brotherhood of the linked ring and photosessecion
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Early Portrature
- Hill/Adamson: pictorial/expressive/about environment
- Felix Nadar: Clean studio/artistic light/discriptive
- Mathew Brady
- Southward/Haws: simple
- Carjet: simple backdrops/dramatic light
- Julia Margaret Cameron
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Travel/Landscape
- Francis Frith: Middle East/Egypt/Syria
- Du Camp: Egypte/Nubie/Palestine/Syrie
- Bayard:
- Roger Fenton: Crimean war
- Bisson Brothers: Alpine glaciers/Mont-Blanc
- Tim O'sullivan: panama
- Watkins: Yosemite
- Russel: Train
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Journalism
- Roger Fenton: Crimean War
- -Civil War: mathew brady, gardner, o'sullivan, russel, barnard
- *couldnt distribute work until after halftone technology.
- Magnum photography
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