Over 170 years, photography has intrigued us, delighted us, outraged us and provided many other emotions by showing us the secret strangeness of the worlds appearances, and that itself is photography's 'true genius'
2. Name a proto-photographer:
Henry Fox Talbot3. In the 19Th century, what term was associated with the daguerreotype?
The term 'mirror with a memory' was associated and it fixed images on a mirrored metal plate, light is reflected and produces one of images. Unique!
4. What is the vernacular?
A snapshot taken by an amateur/unknown photographer who takes shots of everyday life and common subjects.
5. How do you “Fix the Shadows”?
They say in 1839 photography was invented in this year french man Louis Daguerre and English man Henry-Fox Talbot, came out with rivalling inventions to 'fix the shadows'. Fox Talbot was through a camera obscura, (mouse-trap camera) and Louis's creation to fix shadows was using mirrored metal plates. We see Abelardo Morell turn a room into a camera by completely blackening out all light and cutting out just a small hole at the window for the light to come through and project the outside world into the room.
6. What is the “carte de visite”?
Carte de Visite is a process created by a French man, which took portraits where you were photographed 8 times in a rapid sequence.
7. Who was Nadar and why was he so successful?
4. What is the vernacular?
A snapshot taken by an amateur/unknown photographer who takes shots of everyday life and common subjects.
5. How do you “Fix the Shadows”?
They say in 1839 photography was invented in this year french man Louis Daguerre and English man Henry-Fox Talbot, came out with rivalling inventions to 'fix the shadows'. Fox Talbot was through a camera obscura, (mouse-trap camera) and Louis's creation to fix shadows was using mirrored metal plates. We see Abelardo Morell turn a room into a camera by completely blackening out all light and cutting out just a small hole at the window for the light to come through and project the outside world into the room.
6. What is the “carte de visite”?
Carte de Visite is a process created by a French man, which took portraits where you were photographed 8 times in a rapid sequence.
7. Who was Nadar and why was he so successful?
Known as Nadar Gaspard-Felix Tournachon took photos of up and coming stars of that time, and became famous for photographing them naturally in a studio for who they were, he expressed them as who they were rather than their profession.
8. What is pictorialism
Pictorialism is an artistic creation, rather than simply recording, it can be said to carefully be constructed and resemble paintings.
8. What is pictorialism
Pictorialism is an artistic creation, rather than simply recording, it can be said to carefully be constructed and resemble paintings.
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