History of Photography Midterm Flashcards

Study for the History of Photography in a smart manner with these flashcards and revise the concepts related to it. Learn the important terms, definitions, and much more briefly with these flashcards quizzes.

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Photographer: Niepce
Date: 1826-27
Support for light-sensitive emulsion: pewter plate
Process: Heliograph
Historical Significance: Worlds first photograph
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Photographer: Daguerre
Date: 1839
Support for light-sensitive emulsion: Copper Plate
Historical Significance: Worlds first practical photographic process. Developing out Process, discovery of mercury vapor decreased exposure time.
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Photographer: Talbot
Date: 1844
Support for light-sensitive emulsion: Salted Paper
Process: Calotype
Historical Significance: Neg/Pos, Could be copied(but not good quality so many people still preferred the detail of the Daguerreotype.
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Photographer: Hill and Anderson
Date: 1840-45
Process:
Calotype
Historical Significance: Proof you could make a portrait with a Calotype
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Photographer:Unknown
Date: 1850's
Process: Collodion "Wet Plate Process"
Historical Significance: Best of dag. and Calo.
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Photographer: Disderi
Date: 1860
Process: Collodion- Carte-De-Visite
Historical Significance: lowered price of portraits
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Photographer: Fenton
Date: 1855
Process: Collodion
Historical Significance: Introduced a new photographic standard of depicting reality
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Photographer: Gardner
Date: 1863
Process: Collodion
Historical Significance: set up-very controversial
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Photographer: Reijlander
Date: 1857
Process: Collodion
Historical Significance: combination print- 30 nagatives
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Photographer: Robinson
Date: 1858
Process: Collodion
Historical Significance: combination print-5 neg. The girl wasn't really dying, she was a model, but peopel believed it was a true photograph. But people believed this photo to be immoral because she was "dying".
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Photographer: Cameron
Date: 18667
Process: Collodion
Historical Significance: Soft lens was used, a pic of sir john herchel, gave a spiritual feel to it
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Photographer: Frith
Date: 1862
Process: Collodion
Historical Significance: First mass produced photography
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Photographer: Thompson
Date: 1877
Process: Collodion
Historical Significance: Photography that helped social reform
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Photographer: Watkins
Date: 1860's
Process: Collodion
Historical Significance: Believed that the landscape was a symbol of spiritual idealism. Helped yellow stone become a national park
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Photographer: Russell
Date: 1869
Process: Collodion
Historical Significance: Easy for manifest destiny