PhotographyPhotography
Camera (room) Obscura (dark)
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/museum/images/cameraobscura.jpg
First Photograph: 1827 Niepce
http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/p/images/photo_niepce.lg.jpg
Daguerreotype (1839)
Daguerre
Positive images
Copper plate coated w/ silver
Each one was original
Calotype (1839)
Talbot
Negative images
Paper treated with silver nitrate and KI
Many prints could be made from original
http://www.daguerre.org/gallery/mk/mk_intro.htmlhttp://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/hillandadamson/calo.html
Wet Collodion Process
1851
Dissolved ether, gun cotton and KI was applied to a plate w/silver nitrate
Messy
Short exposure time
Dry Collodion Process
1871
Used plates coated with gelatin
Neat
Long exposure time
Made photography widely available
http://cottongenomics.tamu.edu/images/cottonboll.jpg
http://www.2ndamendment.com/Images/Rifle223.jpeg
http://tonova.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/jello.jpg
Photographic Prints1. Salted paper
http://albumen.stanford.edu/
http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/photography/processframe.php?processid=pr002
2. Albumen : salted egg whites and silver nitrate.
3. Gelatin silver prints: more silver
http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/photography/process.php?processid=pr011&row=2
Europeans were initially hostile towards photography!
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Americans welcomed photography!
http://www.punchstock.com/image/rubberball/7356444/comp/c4_00.jpghttp://www.cajunimages.com/images/American%20Flag.jpg
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Eventually, photography caused painting to become generally less realistic and more expressive.
http://www.kickarseart.com/art_trends/i_trends/Expressionism.JPG
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