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| What does Photography mean? |
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| The word photography derives from the Greek words phōs (genitive: phōtós) light, and gráphein, to write. |
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| Who coined the term Photography? |
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| The word was coined by Sir John Herschel in 1839. |
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| When was the first photograph created? |
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| The first permanent photograph (later accidentally destroyed) was an image produced in 1826 [5] by the French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce |
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| Describe the Daguerre process? |
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| He discovered that exposing the silver first to iodine vapour before exposure to light, and then to mercury fumes after the photograph was taken, could form a latent image. Bathing the plate in a salt bath then fixes the image. On January 7, 1839 Daguerre announced that he had invented a process using silver on a copper plate called the daguerreotype. |
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| 1839 he acquired a key improvement, an effective fixer, from John Herschel, the astronomer, who had previously showed that hyposulfite of soda (also known as hypo, or now sodium thiosulfate) would dissolve silver salts. |
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| Talbot had invented the calotype process in 1840. |
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| He coated paper sheets with silver chloride to create an intermediate negative image. Unlike a daguerreotype, a calotype negative could be used to reproduce positive prints, like most chemical films do today. |
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forerunner of the photographic camera. Originally a darkened
room in which observers could view images of outside subjects projected (upside
down) through a pinpoint light source onto a facing wall. Later this evolved into a portable box with an aperture, lens, mirror, and viewing screen. |
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Any photographic image in which the tones are the reverse of those in the
original subject. Also, the film, plate, or paper exposed to light in a camera and
processed to make the negative image. |
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a photographic image on any support or material in which the tonalities
and colours accord with those of the subject portrayed (as opposed to a negative, in which they are reversed). At times used interchangeably with print. |
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A tiny aperture in a camera without a lens. Light passing through it forms
an inverted image on film or light‐sensitive paper or film. |
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print made by putting an object directly in contact with paper coated
with iron salts and potassium ferricyanide, then exposing them to light. The image is usually white on a blue ground. |
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the first practical photographic process, in which an image is
formed on a copper plate coated with highly polished silver that is sensitized by
fumes of iodine to form a light sensitive coating of silver iodide. A unique work having no negative for replication. |
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| a wet‐plate process in which a negative is made by coating a glass plate with a light‐sensitive emulsion of collodion. |
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a negative made by exposing a glass plate coated with silver halides suspended in gelatin. Called dry to distinguish it from wet‐collodion plates.
Allows the plate to be exposed and developed at a later time but requires a much longer exposure. |
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| Calotype (also called Talbotype) |
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| the first successful negative/positive process, patented in 1841 by William Henry Fox Talbot |
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uses a coated metal or glass plate resulting in a negative‐positive process
that allows the picture to be copied (includes Heliotype) |
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| a category of artistic composition characterized by similarities in form, style and subject matter |
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an artful rendition, a simulation or artificial creation, inventive,
mystical…etc. |
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| beautiful, appreciating beauty, in relation to a set of visual and/or artistic principles |
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| any picture made to represent the out‐of‐doors |
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| pictures that depict nature for its own sake |
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| The ‘golden age of landscape photography’ |
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Eggwhite. Used on glass as a medium for light‐sensitive emulsions to
make finely detailed negatives |
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a paper coated with an emulsion of gelatin and silver salts –
either silver bromide or silver chloride, or a mixture of both, called chloro‐bromide |
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a realistic approach to art, based on contemporary science, not art
theory. The artist should translate exactly how the eye sees. |
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| of such excellence, grandeur, and beauty as to inspire admiration and awe or even terror. |
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a style or movement in painting originating in France in the 1860s,
characterized by a concern for depicting the visual impression of the moment, esp. in terms of the shifting effects of light and colour. |
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a late 19th to early 20th century style that used diffused lighting, soft
focus lenses, and abstract backgrounds to make images look more like paintings
than photographs. |
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a print formed by exposing a negative in contact with paper
sensitized with iron salts and a platinum compound, then developing it with potassium oxide |
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| plain prints made from plain negatives |
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a New York based group organized by Alfred Stieglitz to compel
“the serious recognition of photography as an additional medium of pictorial
expression.” |
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| the American version of the ‘New Objectivity’ as practiced by European photographers. |
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| a San Francisco based group that promoted ‘Precisionism’ through its advocacy of the large‐format view camera, small lens aperture (hence the name), and printing by contact print rather than enlarging. |
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Slide: 1 Collection: Fine Arts Images Image Number: 087031
Title: Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads View: Poling the Marsh Hay
Creator: Emerson, Peter Henry Creation
Date: ca. 1885
Current Location: Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, USA Repository Number: 543.1967.17 Measurements: 23.6 x 29.1 cm
Material & Technique: photograph, platinum print Culture: English Culture: British Description:
plate XVII from album co-authored with Thomas F. Goodall, published in 1886
Genre: Naturalism |
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| Slide: 2 Collection: Fine Arts Images Image Number: 086584 Title: Children Creator: Levitt, Helen Creation Date: 1940 Current Location: Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, USA Measurements: 16.5 x 22.4 cm Material & Technique: photograph, |
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Slide: 3
Collection: Fine Arts Images Image Number: 259440
Title: Magnolia Bud
Creator: Cunningham, Imogen
Creation Date: 1929
Current Location: George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, USA Repository Number: 77:0760:0021 Measurements: 23.5 x 17.9 cm
Material & Technique:photograph, gelatin silver print Culture: American
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| Lacock Abbey - Henry Fox Talbot |
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| Slide: 4 Collection: Fine Arts Images Image Number: 246079 Title: Lacock Abbey Creator: Talbot, William Henry Fox Creation Date: 1839 Current Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, USA Material & Technique: photograph, salted paper print Culture: English |
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Slide: 5
Collection: Fine Arts Images Image Number: 226717
Title: Shells and Fossils
Creator: Daguerre, Louis-Jacques-Mande
Creation Date: 1839
Material & Technique: photograph, daguerreotype
Culture: French |
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Collection: Fine Arts Images Image Number: 081969
Title: View of the Boulevard du Temple
Creator: Daguerre, Louis-Jacques-Mande
Creation Date: 1839
Current Location: Stadtmuseum, Munich, Germany Material & Technique: photograph, daguerreotype
Culture: French |
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Collection: Fine Arts Images Image Number: 054957 Title: Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico
Creator: Adams, Ansel Easton
Creation Date: 1941
Current Location: Newhall Collection, Rochester, New York, USA Material & Technique:photograph
Culture: American
Genre: f.64 Group |
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Collection: Fine Arts Images Image Number: 259436
Title: Tomato Field
Creator: Weston, Edward
Creation Date: 1937
Current Location: George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, USA Repository Number: 74:0061:0072 Measurements: 19.1 x 24.1 cm
Material & Technique: photograph, gelatin silver print Culture: American |
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| Family Group in the Gardens Henry Fox Talbot |
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| Slide: 9 Collection: Fine Arts Images Image Number: 226684 Title: Family Group in the Gardens Creator: Talbot, William Henry Fox Creation Date: ca. 1844 Current Location: National Media Museum, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England Material & Technique: photograph, salted paper print Culture: English |
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Collection: Fine Arts Images Image Number: 085598
Title: Pencil of Nature Title: Open Door (Plate VI)
Creator: Talbot, William Henry Fox
Creation Date: 1844-1846
Material & Technique: photograph, calotype
Culture: English
Culture: British
Description: 1 of 24 plates from Talbot's book published in six installments |
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| Slide: 11 Collection: Fine Arts Images Image Number: 087042 Title: Great Pyramids and Sphinx Creator: Frith, Francis Creation Date: ca. 1859 Current Location: Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, USA Measurements: 15.2 x 20.6 cm Material & Technique: photograph, albumen print Culture: English |
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