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| When did photography begin? |
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| In 1836 with still images |
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| Photographs of a horse trotting were published by who and when? |
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| Eadweard Muybridge in La Nature in 1878. |
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| Thomas Edison and W.K. Laurie Dickson invented? |
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| the Kinetoscope between 1888 and 1892 |
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| The first continuous film motion-picture viewing machine |
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| introduced the celluloid film that came on a roll, produced expressly for his new camera, the Kodak |
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invented between Thomas Edison and W.K. Laurie Dickson
only viewable through a peephole, one person at a time |
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| First projected motion picture |
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-was available to a large audience
-debut on dec 28, 1895
-in Paris
-August and Louis Lumiere showed 10 films
-projected by their Cinematographe
-lasted 20 minutes
-Most popular of their early films was Waterer and Watered
-boy steps on a gardeners hose |
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-Created by August and Louis Lumiere
-produced by Cinematography
-boy steps on a gardener's hose, stopping the flow of water
-audiences howled with delight |
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| Photography is like a ________ |
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| Walker Evans's photograph |
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-Roadside Store between Tuscaloosa and Greensboro, Alabama 1936
-is an example of a instant collage
-mission was to capture every aspect of American visual reality
-photographic equivalent to the Sears, Roebuck catalog of the day |
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| Camera is Latin word for______ |
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-a darkened room
-routinely used by artist to copy nature accurately |
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| cons of working with camera obscura |
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-tedious
-could not preserve the captured image |
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-from England
-created the fix for camera obscura
with Photogenic drawing |
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-process which yielded a positive image on a polished metal plate
-named after one of its two inventors, Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre( Joseph Nicephore Niepce had died in 1833 leaving Daguerre to perfect the process and garner the rewards)
-Public reaction was wildly enthusiastic, andd the French and English press faithfully reported every development in the greates detail |
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| As early as 1841, a daguerreotype portrait could be had in ______ for 15 francs. |
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| Richard Beard opened the first_______portrait studio |
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-in 1849, 100,000 daguerreotype portraits were sold in Paris
-slowed interest in painted portraits
-democratized the genre, making portraits available to wealthy, middle class and working class |
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-required considerable time to prepare, expose and develop the plate.
-exposure took so long, certain things
would not show up in image
-could not be reproduced |
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| Using paper instead of a _______ ________Fox Talbot's photogenic process made multiple prints a possibility. |
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| This _________process is the basis of modern photography. |
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| In 1843, Talbot made a picture, which he called_____ ______ ______, that convinced him that the calotype could not only document the world, but also be a work of art |
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| When he published The Open Door photo in his book________, it was the first book of photgraphs ever produced |
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-a photographic process
-the plate had to be prepared, exposed, and developed all within 15 minutes and while still wet
-using this process, Margaret Cameron photographed everyone she knew, among them the greatest men of British art, lit and science. she would often blur features slightly |
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| What early wars were documented by photography? |
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Crimean War 1854 to 56
American Civil War in 1861 |
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| the size of the opening of the camera lens |
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dodging- decreases the exposure of selected area of the print that the photographer wishes to be lighter
burning- increases the exposure to areas of the print that should be darker |
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-until the late 1960s was largely ignored by fine art photographers
-associated it with advertising
-could only be processed in commercial labs and the images tended to discolor rapidly
-1970 Kodak introduced new color technologies that allowed for far greater fidelity, control, luminosity and durability. |
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| is the process of arranging the sequences of a film after it has been shot in its entirety |
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the first great master of editing
-The Birth of a Nation, essentially invented the standard vocabulary of filmmaking
-created a visual variety in the film by alternating between shots. |
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| shows the actor from head to toe |
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| shows actor from the waist up |
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| shows actors head and shoulders |
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| shows an actors portion of the face |
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| a shot that takes in a wide expanse and many characters at once |
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| the frame slowly opens in a widening circle as a scene begins or slowly blacks out in a shrinking circle to end a scene |
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| Related to the long shot is the pan shot |
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| a panoramic vista in which the camera moves across the scene from one side to the other |
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| in which the camera moves back to front or front to back |
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the editor cuts to narrative episodes that are supposed to have taken place before the start of the film
-used now as a standard
original idea when Griffith first used it |
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an editing technique meant to create high drama
editor moves back and forth between two separate events in ever-shorter sequences, the rhythm of shots eventually becoming furiously paced |
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the sequencing of widely disparate images to create a fast-paced, multifaceted image
-created by Eisenstein in Odessa Steps Sequence, 1925 film Battleship Potemkin |
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