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Art 462
Midterm Vocab
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Photography
Undergraduate 4
10/10/2012

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Camera Obscura
Definition
a dark/box that, through the use of mirrors, reflects an image onto a wall/piece of paper so it cam be traced
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Camera Lucida
Definition
"the light room"; had a prism so one could view their subject and their drawing at the same time
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Photogram
Definition
cameraless photographs made by casting light on photo sensitive paper, or by placing objects directly on the light sensitive surface
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Photographic Essay
Definition
a set or series of photographs that are intended to tell a story or invoke an emotional reaction
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Stereograph
Definition
two images side by side, that when viewed with a viewer, looks 3D
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carte-de-visite
Definition
A small photographic portrait mounted on a cardboard backing that was the size of a visiting card. Created in sets of 8.
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Cabinet Card
Definition
the next size up from the visiting card
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Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper
Definition
This weekly newspaper specialized in visual accounts of current
events and provided a market for photographic images.
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half tone process
Definition
The process where photographs were printed with text in a book, newspaper, or magazine. Called half-tone b/c it allowed for values between black and white.
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combination printing
Definition
a technique that uses two or more negatives to make a final image
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Dry Plates
Definition
Commercially produced photographs that exposed fast enough to capture movement. B/C quick exposure time, camera is now hand-held
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calotype
Definition
(salt print) invented by William Henry Fox Talbot, using paper coated with silver iodide. Positive-negative process, copies can be made. Soft images.
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Daguerreotype
Definition
invented by Daguerre; uses a silver or silver coated copper plate to register an image in a camera obscura. Sharp image, no full range of values (value of plate to black), not capable of making copies (direct positive)
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tintype
Definition
inexpensive photographic proces that renders images onto thin sheets of iron, not tin. Lightweight, easy to send through the postal system
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ambrotype
Definition
(collodion positive). Puts a dark backing behind a sheet of glass on which a negative image has been rendered , a positive image results.
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