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Photo History
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Photography
Undergraduate 3
10/02/2011

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Cabinet Photograph
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Usually a portrait, mounted on a stiff card
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Bromoil Process
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A variation of the oil-pigment procell. It was exposed to a negative than bleached to eliminate the silver image and leaving an image in relief that will accept lithographic inc
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Carbon Print
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A shhet of paper or tissue is coated with gelatin containing a pigment and potassium bichromate. Rich brown or black color
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Autochrome
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a positive, color transparency on glass
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calotype
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an improved variation of fox talkbots salted paper process, it requires less exposure than salted paper but had to be chemically developed
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camera work
Definition
photographic journal, founded by stieglitz. went through 50 issues. most reproductions were printed separately on fine papers and hand-tipped into the magazine
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chromogenic print
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a color print made from transparencies or negatives onto a paper that has three emulsion layers.
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cibachrome print
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for making positive prints from color transparencies
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Cliche verre
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glass negative. it is as simple as drawing or etching upon a perpared peie of glass and using it as a negative to make a print on light sensitive material.
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collodion process
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a negative process on a glass plate. It is a substance that dries to a tough skin-like quality. Dries fast so has to by coated, sensitized, exposed and devoloped before it dries
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variations of collodion process
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ambrotype, tintype, carte-de-viste
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ambrotype
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Collodion positive on glass. an underexposed or specially bleached collodion negative was found to appear positive when framed with a backing of black velvet.
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tintype
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a collodion photograph made on a piece of iron painted black
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carte-de-viste
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an albumen print made from a collodion glass negative and mounted on a stiff board
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Collotype
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for making multiple prints from a photographic nagative. Specialized processing resulted in a relief image on the glass that could be inked and printed
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combination print
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merging of two or more negatives into a single print
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continous-tone
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describes a photograph that displays and incrememnt of tonal change from the darkest possible tone to the lightest possible tone-a gradation of grays bewteen black and white
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cyanotype
Definition
paper is coated with a solution of ferric ammonium citrate and potassium ferricandide. The dried paper is exposed to the sun in contact with a negative. A deep prussian blue is produced.
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decisive moment
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associated with 35mm street photography. associated with henri cartier-bresson.
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daguerreotype
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one-of-a-kind, direct positive image on a metal plate. The latent image is developed with heated mercury vapor. the image is laterally reversed and has a highly reflective surface.
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depth of field
Definition
the area in front and behind the plane of critical focus in a photograph that is acceptably sharp.
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detective camera
Definition
a common name given to small hand-held cameras in the late 19th century that utilized dry plates and were frequently designed to be concealed in clothing, a book, satchels, walking sticks even guns
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types of digital imaging
Definition
film recorders, ink jet print, thermal wax print, dye-sublimation print, electrostatic/laser printers, silver halide printer
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film recorders
Definition
use cathode ray tubes to expose digital images from the computer onto conventional film.
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ink jet print
Definition
colored ink is sprayed out from up to 128 separate nozzles for better resolution
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thermal wax print
Definition
excellent for producing non-photographic illustrations, but can't delived photographic quality. Low cost
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dye-sublimation print
Definition
300 dots per inch appear quite smooth adn continuous on these.
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electrostatic/laser printers
Definition
four separate toner cartridges
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silver halide printer
Definition
some digital printers can output to conventional photo papers using fiber optics. the paper can then be processed with traditional photographic chemistry
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diorama
Definition
large translucent painting lit from the front and behind. by moving a spectator through a variety of such painted backdrops, the illusion of reality was achieved.
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direct positive print
Definition
silver chloride paper was exposed to light until it turned black. there is no negative
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documentary photography
Definition
photographs made to record or interpret a subject, often with a preconceived veiwpoint or purpose in mind.
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equivalent
Definition
a term first used by stieglitz referring to a photograph used as a visual metaphor. showing one thing by symbolizing another.
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family of man
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organized by edward steichen in moma. 500 photographs from sixty country. wanted to illustrate the "essential oneness of mankind throughout the world"
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farm security administration
Definition
they hired photographers to document the people and land affected by the depression
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film und foto
Definition
FIFO, concieved by laszlo moholy-nagy. Focused on modernist european and american photography and included examples of avant-garde work, fashion, film stills, scientific and industrial photography
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focal length
Definition
the distance from the center of a lens to the point where light passing through the lens come into focus
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gelatin dry plates
Definition
glass was coated wiht an emilsion consisting of light-sensitve silver halides suspended in gelatin. they were usable when dry and needed mush less light than collodion to effect and exposure
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gelatin silver print
Definition
standard black and white photographic print
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ghost
Definition
when exposure times were long, if a person or anything moved during the exposure a faint blurred impression was captured on a negative.
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gravure (photogravure)
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an etching process modified to reproduce photographs.
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group f/64
Definition
group of photographers including eward weston, ansel adams, that prefered sharp focus. The name f64 was takedn from the smalled sperture avaiable on large format view cameras and resulted in images of great clarity and depth of field
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gum bichromate print
Definition
diffuse and show little resolution and detail, sometimes resemble crayon or charcoal drawing
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halftone
Definition
a photographic reproduction (newspaper or magazine) created on a printing press from a metal plate
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heliography
Definition
niepce, a pewter plate is coated with a form of ashpalt that hardens when exposed to light.
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latent image
Definition
the invisible image created when light strikes photographic film or paper
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linked ring brotherhood
Definition
a group of pictorialist photographers who broke away from the photographic society. made photography fine art.
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luminism
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term applied to the wprk of american landscape painters
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manesium flash
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provided illumination for indoor or night photography
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Naturalistic photography
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emerson- nothing in nature is in sharp focus
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new objectivity
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realistic figurative style
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new vision
Definition
any type of experimentation photography
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new york school
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an unorganized group of photographers working in new york b/t the 2 world wars and in the fifties
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oil-pigment process
Definition
granular, uneven tone. pictorialist used this process due to its painterly qualities
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orthochromatic
Definition
photographic material that is only sensitive to ble and green light
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orotone
Definition
a negative printed on a glass plate covered with a gelatin-silver emulsion.
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panchromatic
Definition
black and white photographic material that is sensitive to all colors of the visible spectrum
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photogenic drawing
Definition
talkbot, made negative prints wusing opaque items. as a process photogenic drawing paper is the same as salted paper
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photo-secession
Definition
a group of photographers organized by stieglitz who promoted photography as art
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physionotrace
Definition
combined silhouette with engraving
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pictorialist
Definition
photographers who though of themselves as artists using photography as a means of making rather than taking pictures
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platinum print
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also called platinotype a non-silver process using platinum and iron salts.
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postmodernism
Definition
this art is not illustrated by a particular style but rather by a collection o f ideas about how art funtions within the contemporary culture
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postvisualization
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a photographic approach by jerry uelsman a darkroom is "a visual reserach lab; a place for discovery, ovservation and meditation"
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salt print
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infinite number of copies could be made from each negative
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solarization
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occurs when photographic film recieves an extreme overexposure that results in a reversal of tones after development
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spirit photography
Definition
ghostly impression in an image
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straight photography
Definition
non-photographic manipulations
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stereograph
Definition
consists of a pair of photographs of a sibgle sunject mounted on a horizontal card.
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vortograph
Definition
alvin langdon coburn's abstract photographs made using three mirrors aranged like those found in a kaleidoscope beneath the lens of a photographic enlarger
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waxed paper
Definition
by gustave le gray and improvement of the calotype process. greather translucency and sharper
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zone system
Definition
a method of exposure and film development. involves analizing the muminances of significan areas of the subject.
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