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72 Cards in this Set
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Alhazan
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-Arab scholar
-knew optical theories of ancient Greeks -illustrated basic principles of camera obscura- basis of all cameras |
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Archimedes
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-Used a burning mirror in 212 BC to set fire to Roman ships attacking Syracuse.
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Leon Battista Albertis
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-Wrote 'Bella Pittura'- scientific description of linear perspective, use of squared window and mirror, how to make realistic paintings
-"I will tell you what I do when I paint" |
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Filippo Brunelleschi
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-Cathedral Bapistry in Florence on a wooden panel- optical device to compare painting with actual cathedral
-Stand in certain spot- very accurate |
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David Hockney
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-2001- 'Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters'- said they used optical devices to create very accurate/realistic paintings- used burning mirror
-controversial |
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Albrecht Duter
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-Illustrated machine that helped drawing, shape was recorded in coordinates, used string and window
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Jan Vermeer
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-Used camera obscura to draw
-Recently proven by Phillp Steadman |
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Joseph Nicephore Niepce
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-French
-Impressed by lithography -Discovered use of bitumen of Judea- sensitive to light -Called photography 'heliography' -Teamed up with Daguerre, made most contributions -Died before daguerrotype came out |
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Claude Niepce
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-Joseph Niepce's brother.
-Worked together for 20 years on Pyreolophore- a marine internal combustion engine -When dies- Josepth loses best friend |
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Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre
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-Painter, diaramas
-Worded w/ Niepce -Invented daguerrotype, patented it in England, free everywhere else -announcement of photography- 1839 |
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Francois Arago
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-Recruited by Daguerre to help him secure gov't support for daguerrotype
-good connections |
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Hippolyte Bayard
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-Immediately after Daguerre's announcement
-direct positives on paper- not as much detail as daguerrotype -1st public exhibition of photography -no money or credit-bitter -"The Drowned Man" photo -One of 1st expressive photographers |
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William Henry Fox Talbot
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-Invented photography before Daguerre, but had told only family
-Took out patents on many aspects of photography- eventually withdrew -calotype- charged high fees |
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John Herschel
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-brilliant astronomer.. etc
-Discovered fixer -Own process of photography- cyanotype -coined terms: negative, positive, fixer, snapshot, photography -Good artist |
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Samuel F.B. Morse
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-Invented telegraph-struggled to get financial support
-One of 1st photographers in US -Ran daguerrotype studio in New York |
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John Draper
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-Partnership with Morse
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Alexander Wolcott
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Wolcott camera- 1840- didn't use lens, used burning mirror
-shorter exposure range than daguerrotype |
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Robert Cornelius
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-Fume daguerrotype plate with bromine in addition to iodine- increased speed about 10 times
-studio in philadelphia |
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Mathew Brady
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-Student of Morse
-Increasingly poor eyesight- didn't actually take a lot of his pictures- but always had his name on it -major photographer of civil war- battle of bull run -Documented all of civil war- market didn't materialize- went bankrupt |
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Edward Anthony
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-Business relationship with Mathew Brady
-E & H.T. Anthony & Company-largest supplier of photographic supplies in US |
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Southworth & Hawes
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-19 year partnership
-Portraits of intellectual, political, and show business elite -Good photos, successful -Wives/family helped |
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Nicolaas Henneman
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-Talbot's former valet
-Set up by Talbot in Reading Establishment-world's first photofinishing business -Salted paper prints used for Talbot's books |
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John Dillwyn Llewelyn
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-From Wales
-Married to Talbot's 1st cousin -Used Talbot's calotype -"Thereza" -Well off, photography as hobby |
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Richard Calvert Jones
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-Wales
-A reverand -Closely tied to Talbot, who wouldn't help him -Helped by Hippolyte Bayard -Used calotype |
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David Brewster
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-Scotland
-Talbot's best friend- reluctantly told him how to use calotype -Suggested Hill and Adamson use photography for religious painting |
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David Hill & Robert Adamson
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-Teamed up to use photography to help with large painting of religious event in Scotland
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Louis-Desire Blanquart Evrard
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-Albumen print- egg whites and salt
-Increased speed of printing by using 'developing out' process |
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Gustave Le Gray
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-Student of Delaroche
-Taught photography -Dry waxed paper negative -Used 2 negatives to create photo with sky -Bankrupt, abandoned family, fled to Egypt |
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Henri Le Secq
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-French gov't sent him and others throughout France to photograph architecture -Missions Heliographiques
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Paul Delaroche
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-Celebrated painter
-Arrival of daguerrotype - "From today, painting is dead" |
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Frederich Scott Archer
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-Created wet plate collodion negative
-Never patented it |
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Napoleon III
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-Emperor of France
-Affair with Countess de Castigione for about a year |
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Vittorio Emanuele II
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-King of Piedmont-Sardinia
-Relative of Countess de Castigione -Wanted to unite Italy, sent countess to France to win over Napoleon |
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Countess de Castigione
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-Affair with Napoleon III, unofficial ambassador
-Photos with Pierson |
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Pierre-Louis Pierson
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-Photographed the Countess de Castigione in France
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Roger Fenton
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-Taught by Le Gray
-Favorite of Queen Victoria -Photographed Crimean War- first war photography |
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Felice Beato
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-Mysterious
-Photographed Crimean War, first war of independence in India, opium war in China -Lived in Japan for 20 years -Colored photos -Documented British army/navy |
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James Robertson
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-W/ Beato to Crimean War as Fenton was leaving
-Photos show actual war devastation, does not show the dead |
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Raimond von Stillfried
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-Bought Beato's studio in Yokohama, Japan
-Austrian painter -Mysterious |
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Kimbei Kusakabe
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-Japanese painter
-Worked w/ Beato & Stillfried -Opened own studio -Sold photos to foreigners -Returned to painting |
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Alexander Gardner
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-Worked for Mathew Brady, split from him to document Civil War on own
-Took last known photo of Lincoln -Photographed execution of conspirators of Lincoln assassination -Hired by Union Pacific Railroad to promote expansion |
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George N. Barnard
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-Worked for Edward Anthony and Mathew Brady- Civil War
-Stereographs |
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Alfred R. Waud
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-Sketches during Civil War
-Photographed by Timothy O'Sullivan at Gettysburg |
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Timothy O'Sullivan
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-Worked for Mathew Brady- left w/ Gardner
-Different photos of the same corpses- different composition and light -Photographed American west- forgotten until Ansel Adams |
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Oscar Gustav Rejlander
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-Sold funny photos
-"The Two Ways of Life"- 32 negatives -Refers to characters from Charles Dickens novels -Famous crying baby photo |
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Lewis Carroll
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-loved to photograph little girls, didn't like boys (creepy??)
-wrote Alice in Wonderland |
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Julia Margaret-Cameron
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-learned photography at 48
-didn't know about chemistry -used daughter clementina a lot- costumes, lots of feeling in photos |
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Clementina Hawarden
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-very original photos
-used her 2 daughters -lots of costumes, sensual pictures -died suddenly at fairly early age |
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Etienne Carjat
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-actor, caricatures, poems, edited
-photographic studio- access to many famous people -photos show character- humor, intelligence |
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Adrien Tournachon
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-Nadar's younger brother
-not as successful, partners for short time -sued by Nadar for trying to use name 'Nadar'- Nadar won |
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Nadar
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-journalist, cartoonist, photographer, ballooning, writer, reviewer
-red hair, artistic interesting personality -simple portraits with character -photographed bohemians |
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Ernestine Nadar
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-Nadar's wife
-kept everything in order -stayed together until her death -he had mistresses |
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Paul Nadar
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-Nadar's son
-had money disagreements -took over Studio Nadar -good photographer, not as artistic as his father |
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Jules Verne
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-Made cartoon "Ardan" -suppose to be Nadar
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Hannibal Goodwin
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-Patented in US celluloid film- long rolls of celluloid
-Sued George Eastman |
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George Eastman
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-Kodak
-Circular pictures -"you push the button, we do the rest" -very good to employees -bought out many smaller companies -never married |
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Reuben Gold Thwaites
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-From Wisconsin
-photographed his travels with kodak camera -published books |
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Paul Martin
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-trained as wood engraver
-lost his job, but had taken up photography -half-tones for newspapers -one of first photo-journalists |
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Alfred Stieglitz
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-father sent him to Berlin to become a mechanical engineer
-decided to become a photographer instead "photography could be an art" |
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Jacques Henri Lartigue
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-took his first photograph at 6, owned camera at 10
-took pictures of things he liked, liked motion pictures |
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Leland Stanford
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-hired Muybridge to make stop-action photographs of running horses
-hired best lawyer to defend Muybridge in murder trial -founder of stanford university |
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Eadward Muybridge
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-stagecoach accident
-kills man b/c he thought his son was actually his- got off -motion study-horses |
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Etienne-Jules Marey
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-asked Muybridge to photograph flight of birds
-fusil photographique- 12 photos on rotating circular dry plate -chronophotography- his scientific study of motion with camera |
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Louis Aimee Augustin Le Prince
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-first to make motion picture camera and projector
-single lens to record motion -got on train- disappeared -most work lost |
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Thomas Edison
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-invented phonograph
-told employee, Dickson, to invent motion picture (like phonograph) -rejected projecting motion picture, wanted in a machine for a peepshow |
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William Kennedy Laurie Dickson
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-worked for Edison
-invented kinetograph motion picture camera, black maria studio -left work for Edison, created mutoscope- different enough from Edison's patents of his old work |
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Herman Wilhelm Vogel
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-discovered that putting collodion wet plate in anilinedye- made it sensitive to green light
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Antoine Lumiere
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-Father of Auguste and Louis
-Saw Edison's kinetoscope- told sons to invent projector |
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Auguste Lumiere
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-Worked with Louis on motion picture production
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Louis Lumiere
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-Breakthrough for projector came to him in a dream- like a sewing machine
-cinematographe- camera/printer/projector -autochrome |
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Leon Gimpei
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-used autochrome for color
-french magazine l'illustration |
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Sergei Prokudin Gorski
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-panchromatic plates- color photographic documentation of tsarist russia
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