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| a highly detailed image on a copper coated silver plate, invented in 1839 |
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- invented the photogenic drawing, which was a negative image on paper but not as detailed
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| In 1856 he announced his own oxymel process which allowed collodion negatives to be preserved over many days. |
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| invented by Llewelyn, allowed collodion negatives to be preserved over many days |
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| was Astronomer Royal for Scotland from 1846 to 1888, well known for many innovations in astronomy and his pyramidological and metrological studies of the Great Pyramid of Giza |
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| was a Canadian inventor, engraver and businessperson. He is noted for co-inventing the half-tone engraver with George-Édouard Desbarats. He had several patents to his name, including leggotyping and granulated photography. |
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| Antoine Hercule Romuald Florence |
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| was a French-Brazilian painter and inventor, known as the isolate inventor of photography in Brazil, three years before Daguerre, using the matrix negative/positive, still in use. |
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| published the first illustrated book (on algae) |
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| photographer. French. Self portrait as a drowned man. Independantly hybridized the daguerrotype to be printed on paper. |
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| invented the cyanotype, which was good for photogram |
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| was faster than the daguerrotype for exposure and could offer more detail but required very still subjects. Required lots of cumbersome equipment. images were made on glass. |
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| allowed for up to eight miniature portraits to be printed on the same negative. Emphasized the dress and comportment of the gentleman rather than the features. Status symbol. 2x4. |
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| two images of the same subject taken slightly apart and pasted side by side on a card presents a 3D image. |
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| took up photography in middle age, and created a large body of work for aesthetic reasons. Used it as an art form rather than for documentation. |
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| was a mostly artistic endeavour but technically advanced. Nationalist. Contained big names. They had a journal but it fizzled out, unlike the English counterpart La Lumiere |
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| was an innovative photographer, who helped further the wet collation process and was concerned with landscapes and the inimmediacy of photography. Did the first photoshopping with clouds. |
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| François Jean Dominique Arago (1786-1853) |
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- Director of the Paris observatory
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- Permanent Secretary, Académie des Sciences |
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| the perceived distance from subjects in the foreground to the background |
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| allowing too little light to hit the sensor (making the image too dark) |
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| allowing too much light to hit the sensor (making the image too bright) |
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| English photographer, known for his animal locomotion shots and his zoopraxiscope, a device for projecting motion pictures that pre-dated the flexible perforated film strip used in cinematography. |
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| patented the London panorama in 1787 |
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| opened by Daguerre in Paris in 1822. |
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| means dark room, invented around 1540, properties known for longer. the thing you use to see an eclipse. |
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| instrument designed to trace a person's general appearance |
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| dark tinted mirror used to enhance the colours of landscape, making the scene more painterly |
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| dark tinted mirror used to enhance the colours of landscape, making the scene more painterly |
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| first photograph view from his window at Le Gras, super long exposure on a pewter plate coated with asphalt-like substance |
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| Whole, half, quarter, sixth, ninth. |
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| Who took the first carte de visite photos of Queen Victoria? |
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| improved the sensitizing process by using chlorine in addition to iodine, thus gaining greater rapidity. also invented the dark-room light. |
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| early photographic process where negatives were made using paper coated with silver iodide. could be reproduced. |
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| Who presented the world's first public photograph exhibition? |
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| inventor of wet collodian |
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| grey/beige image of negative on glass backed with black something (varnish, cloth, paper) to produce a unique positive. |
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| 16 exposures on 1 plate, thin and able to be cut. used wet collodian. made of japanned iron. |
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| American civil war photographer. father of photojournalism. |
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| first to manufacture chemicals for daguerrotypes in the states, pioneered astronomical and night photography. first to produce images of the stars. |
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| first successful aerial photographer |
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| Italian–British photographer. He was one of the first people to take photographs in East Asia and one of the first war photographers. He is noted for his genre works, portraits, and views and panoramas of the architecture and landscapes of Asia and the Mediterranean region. Beato's travels gave him the opportunity to create images of countries, people, and events that were unfamiliar and remote to most people in Europe and North America. His work provides images of such events as the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and the Second Opium War, and represents the first substantial oeuvre of photojournalism. |
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| took the first photograph of the moon |
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| John and William Langenheim |
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| Brothers William and Frederick Langenheim became two of the first successful commercial photographers in America. They not only ran a successful portrait studio but also helped pioneer several photographic advancements in the United States: the use of glass negatives and positives to make prints and projections, and the calotype process to make stereo images. They were the first photographers to travel around the United States making and selling popular tourist views. |
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| Claude-Joseph-Désiré Charnay |
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commissioned by the French government in 1857 and spent four years collecting relics in Mexico and compiling a photographic archive
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- later expeditions to Madagascar (1863), North America (1867–70), South America (1875), and Australia and Oceania (1878).
o •Le Mexique, souvenirs et impressions de voyage (1863), his personal report on the expedition of 1857-1861 |
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| invented a device which allowed the sun to be mapped through photography |
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| It used the albumen found in egg whites to bind the photographic chemicals to the paper and became the dominant form of photographic positives |
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| E. & H. T. Anthony & Company |
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| was the largest supplier and distributors of photographic supplies in the United States during the 19th century |
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| Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne |
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| took photos of crazy people |
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| famous for their photographs of motion studies |
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| female writer and photographer |
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| art critic. said things like, "A revengeful God has given ear to the prayers of this multitude. Daguerre was his Messiah. And now the faithful says to himself: “Since photography gives us every guarantee of exactitude that we could desire (they really believe that, the mad fools!), then photography and Art are the same thing:’ From that moment our squalid society rushed, Narcissus to a man, to gaze at its trivial image on a scrap of metal. A madness..." |
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| artist and designer who took photographs during his visit with writer, Stephens, to the Yucatan. Wrote books titled Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatán, and Incidents of Travel in Yucatán. |
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