History Of Photography — 1

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View from his window at Le Gras

Joseph Nicephore Niepce

heliograph

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Still Life

Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre

Daguerreotype

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Boulevard du Temple

Paris, Louis Jacque Mande Daguerre

Daguerreotype

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Botanical Specimen

William Henry Fox Talbot

photogenic drawing

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Self-Portrait as a Drowned Man

Hippolyte Bayard

direct paper positive

Lying to the camera — dead people can't take pictures.

“The body you see-the academy the king...”

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C’s Portrait (Constance Talbot)

William Henry Fox Talbot

calotype

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Redding the Line (Portrait of James Linton)

David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson

calotype

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The Minnow Pool

David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson

calotype

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Portrait of an Unidentified Woman

Andre Adolphe Eugene Disderi

uncut albumen print from a carte-de-visite negative

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Lewis Carroll (Reverend Charles L. Dodgson)

OscarGustave Rejlander

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Sir John Herschel

Julia Margaret Cameron

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Self Portrait

Nadar

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Sarah Bernhardt

Emile Tourtin

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Sarah Bernhardt

Nadar

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Sarah Bernhardt

Napoleon Sarony

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Abraham Lincoln

Alexander Gardner

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Countess Castiglione

Louis Pierson

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unknown girl

Romualdo Garcia

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x not found

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Dead baby and family

Juan de Dios Machain

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Ancient Ruins in the Canyon de Chelle,NewMexico

Timothy H. O’Sullivan

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Brig Upon the Water

Gustave Le Gray

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Grand Canyon of the Colorado

William Henry Jackson

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Inverted in the Tide Stand the Grey Rocks

Carleton Watkins

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Creator: Joseph Nicephore Niepce

Process: Bitumenof Judea on a metal plate

Date: 1826

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Physical Description:

Positive on metal, one-of-a-kind, fuzzy due to long exposure

Distinction:

1st photograph 1st “permanent” photographic process

Exposure Time:

8hours

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Creator: Louis JacquesMande Daguerre

Process: Daguerreotype

Date: 1839

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DaguerreotypeExpose a silver-coated copper plate sensitized in iodine vapor; develop the latent image by fuming in mercury vapors

Physical Description:

Positive on metal,one-of-a-kind, laterally reversed, monochromatic, very sharp

Distinction:

1st generally accessible photographic process; very popular

Exposure Time:

5-60 minuets

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Creator: William Henry Fox Talbot

Process: Photogenic Drawing & Talbot-type

Date: 1835-1839

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Photogenic Drawing:camera-less images made by contact printing
Talbot-type:paper negative: tonally reversed, laterally reversed; very fuzzy Calotype: same as Talbot-type but with latent image development (patented)

Distinction:

Negative-positive process made duplicates possible; not popular at first but became the most used process after improvements to sharpness.

Exposure Time:

½hour without latent image; 30 seconds with latent image

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Creator: Hippolyte Bayard

Process: Direct Positive Paper images

Date: 1839

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Direct Positive Paperimages: darkened paper with silverchloride and potassium iodide exposed in the camera to bleach in whites

Physical Description:

Positiveon paper; not very sharp

Distinction:

Largely ignored because of the popularity of the Daguerreotype and political pressure to promote/support the Daguerreotype

Exposure Time:

Unknown

Process squelched for political reasons

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Who benefited from the pictures?

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Artists

Science

Society