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ArtH/Photo 126 midterm
The History of Photography with Professor Albers at SJSU
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Art History
Undergraduate 3
10/15/2017

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[image]
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Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, Parisian Boulevard, daguerreotype, 1839 Hippolyte Bayard,
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Self-Portrait as a Drowned Man, Bayard process, 1840
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William Henry Fox Talbot, The Open Door, salt print from calotype negative, 1844
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Albert Southworth and Josiah Hawes, Girl with a Portrait of George Washington, daguerreotype, 1850
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David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, James Nasmyth, salt print from calotype negative, c. 1844
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André Disdéri, Louis Thiers, albumen silver print (carte-de-visite), c. 1871-73
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Nadar, Sarah Bernhardt, albumen salted print, 1850
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Roger Fenton, Valley of the Shadow of Death, salted paper print from collodion (wet plate) negative, 1855
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Mathew Brady, Abraham Lincoln (The Cooper Union Portrait), albumen silver print (carte-de-visite), 1860
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Alexander Gardner, The Home of the Rebel Sharpshooter, albumen silver print, 1863
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Oscar Rejlander, Two Ways of Life, albumen silver print (combination print), 1857
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Julia Margaret Cameron, Portrait of Thomas Carlyle, albumen silver print from collodion (wet plate) negative, 1867
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Henry Peach Robinson, Fading Away, albumen silver print, 1858 (See Hirsch.)
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Timothy O’Sullivan, Sand Dunes Near Sand Springs, Nevada, albumen silver print, 1867
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Timothy O’Sullivan, Historic Spanish Record of the Conquest, albumen silver print, 1873
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Carleton Watkins, Cape Horn Near Celilo, Oregon, albumen silver print, 1967
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Eadweard Muybridge, Galloping Horse, albumen silver print, 1884-85
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camera obscura
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an image making device, similar to a camera, made from a closed container with one open hole that let light in from one side and reflected the light from the scenery through the hole and onto the other side of the contaner.
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Camera lucida
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a device used by artists to draw/trace what was in front of them. the camera lucida was created using a prism that bended the image of the person in front of the artist down to the paper which allowed the artist to "draw" or trace around the subject.
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daguerreotype
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Type of photographic film created by Daguerre
pg. 10
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latent image
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an image registered on a photographically sensitive surface, like paper or a metal plate, but which is not visible to the eye. The latent image must be developed through a chemical process
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Photogenic drawing
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a photographic technique developed by William Henry Fox Talbot that used light-sensitized paper to produce a negative from which multiple positive prints could be made.
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calotype
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uses paper, able to make multiple copies with the use of a negative
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albumen silver print
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The albumen print, also called albumen silver print, was published in January 1847 by Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard, and was the first commercially exploitable method of producing a photographic print on a paper base from a negative.
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carte-de-visite
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changes photography from a mostly private function to a public function.
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tintype
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an inexpensive photographic process that rendered images on the sheets of iron, not tin. The tintype was lightweight, making it easy to send through the portal system
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combination print
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a printed imaged created from two different negatives.
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Allegory
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tableau vivant (pl. tableaux vivants)
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a staged picture that reproduces a work of art or a scene from history or literature
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chiaroscuro
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From the Italian for "dark and light," refers to the contrasts between light and shade in a painting or a photograph. Chiaroscuro is often used to highlight an important subject and to create dramatic effects.
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Manifest Destiny
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the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
pg. 120
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survey photography
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photography done by photographers employed by post-Civil War US government-sponsored expeditions to explore, map, document, and report on the American West.
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the “commercial sublime”
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American exceptionalism
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refers to the special character of the United States as a uniquely free nation based on democratic ideals and personal liberty.
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stereograph format
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Stereographs consist of two nearly identical photographs or photomechanical prints, paired to produce the illusion of a single three-dimensional image, usually when viewed through a stereoscope.
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Zoetrope
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a 19th-century optical toy consisting of a cylinder with a series of pictures on the inner surface that, when viewed through slits with the cylinder rotating, give an impression of continuous motion.
pg. 133
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Zoopraxiscope
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The zoopraxiscope is an early device for displaying motion pictures. Created by photographic pioneer Eadweard Muybridge in 1879, it may be considered the first movie projector. The zoopraxiscope projected images from rotating glass disks in rapid succession to give the impression of motion.
pg. 133
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Kodak snapshot
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pg. 138
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