polished sheet of copper that was sensitized by iodine vapor. Then he exposed it in a large box camera. Once the exposure was made, Daguerre developed the image in mercury fumes and stabilized it with salt water, creating what is known as the Daguerreotype. Henry-Fox Talbot used silver salt coated paper inside of his camera obscura, but only allowed the paper to be exposed for a limited time. After the exposure was created, it was fixed by chemicals. These…
During the early decades of the twentieth century, the number of child laborers in the United States boomed. As industrialization moved workers from farms and home workshops, into urban areas and factory work, children were often preferred. Factory owners viewed them as more manageable, cheaper, and less likely to strike. Therefore inciting the era of child labor in the United States. A man by the name of Lewis W. Hine began taking photographs of children in the workforce as a tool for social…
The simplicity of being an anesthesiologist when you grow up is not uncommon for this generation and the upcoming increase, of needing more anesthetics in rural areas demanding for more physicians in that area in the medical field. To be an anesthesiologist, I do know that it takes at least an unimaginable twelve years before you’re certified to be an anesthetic physician. Many don’t know what implies to be an anesthesiologist when knowing how much to give a patient the right amount of dosage,…
Photography is not just strictly visual, it is influential, subjective, objective, and impactful. It is a means and a medium to bring about change in society or the world. The camera is a small but powerful tool to bring about social change but to also share an image, an image captured in a moment of time. In a quote by renowned American photographer Aaron Siskind, “Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little…
“The Bride” Director: Svyatoslav Podgayevsky Genre: Horror/Mystery/Thriller Screenplay: Svyatoslav Podgayevsky Producers: Vladislav Severtsev, Dmitry Litvinov, Zaur Bolotayev Starring: Victoria Agalakova, Vyacheslav Chepurchenko, Alexandra Rebenok, Igor Khripunov, Lada Churovskaya and Victor Solovyov. Synopsis: The new Russian horror movie “The Bride” from the director of “Estate 18” and “The Queen of Spades: The Black Ritual” unravels the terrible traditions and rituals that used to…
David Hockney is a great painter,but he has also known fame through photography, although he does not mince his words when he says ‘Photography will never equal painting!’ In the early 1980s, Hockney began to produce photocollages, which he called "joiners," first of Polaroid prints and later of 35mm, commercially processed color prints. Using varying numbers of Polaroid snaps or photolab-prints of a single subject Hockney arranged a patchwork to make a composite image. One of his first…
officials. Until they sorted everything out, Rancho Cabrillo—all 3500 acres—was essentially worthless. Yet, she couldn’t leave without a loan. Somehow, she needed to change his mind. Perhaps she could appeal to his sympathies. She picked up the daguerreotype case on the desk. The woman in the portrait sat on a piano bench with a toddler in her lap and a boy of maybe five or six standing next to her. The resemblance between the children and Henderson was undeniable. “Is this your…
began the regularization of writing in the vernacular to reach a larger audience particularly with the printed bible , and inevitably led to the loss of techniques related to the older manuscript culture . The first practical photography method, daguerreotype, quickly spread across Europe and North America creating portrait photography as a profession, however no copies could be produced . The more people who wanted photos the more the way of photography changed creating a loop of give and take.…
A group of black women twerk and dance with stereotypical ‘ghetto’ apparel and mannerisms in Taylor Swift’s music video, “Shake It Off”. The video was slammed for Swift’s use of black bodies as props and as glamorized black puppets. Today, white supremacy hides beneath subtle behavior and phrases: for example, non-black people will use the n-word as slang and allege that they are “reclaiming” the expression when they have no acceptable justification as a non-black person, and they have no right…
The Industrial Revolution in the 18th and 19th century was a major turning point in history and influenced every aspect of daily life, including traveling (Griffin, 2010). With the invention of the steam engine and further developments in transportation technologies, the mobility of tourists improved considerably. Particularly trains and the steam ships did not only lead to an upsurge in transport carrying capacity, but reduced substantially the cost of travelling (More, 2000) as well. Although…