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History of photography (part 2):documenting the world
CS 178, Spring 2009
Marc LevoyComputer Science DepartmentStanford University
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Outline
✦ everyday scenes
✦ architecture and archaeology
✦ wonders of the industrial age
✦ notable events
✦ the beginning of photojournalism
✦ wet plate photography
✦ Matthew Brady and the Civil War
✦ surveying the West
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Everyday scenes
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Porta della Ripetta, Rome, 1846(photograph by Calvert Jones)
(Rosenblum)
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Everyday scenes
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Banks of the Seine at Sèvres, 1851(photograph by Victor Regnault)
(Rosenblum)
Harbor of La Rochelle, 1851(painting by Corot)
(Gardner)
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Architecture and archaeology
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The Parthenon, 1869(photograph by William James Stillman)
(Newhall)
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Architecture and archaeology
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Notre Dame cathedral, 1851(photograph by Charles Negre)
(Newhall)
(Marc Levoy)
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Wonders of the industrial age
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The Crystal Palace, London, c. 1853(photograph by Philip Henry Delamotte)
(Rosenblum)
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Wonders of the industrial age
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The Great Eastern being launched, 1858(photographer unknown)
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Isambard Brunel,Builder of the Great Eastern (photograph by Robert Howlett)
(Newhall)
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Notable events
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Meeting of the Rails, 1869(photograph by Andrew J. Russell)
(Newhall)
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The beginnings of photojournalism
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(Rosenblum)
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The beginnings of photojournalism
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Execution of the co-conspirators, 1865(photograph by Alexander Gardner)
(Rosenblum)
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The beginnings of photojournalism
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Abraham Lincoln, 1865(photograph by Alexander Gardner)
John Wilkes Booth
(Rosenblum)(Library of Congress)
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Wet-plate collodion photography
✦ developed in 1851 by Frederick Scott Archer• clean the glass plate (extremely well)• flow the glass plate with "salted" (iodide/bromide) collodion• immerse the plate in a silver nitrate bath (for 3-5 minutes)• expose the plate (from one second to several minutes)• develop the plate (using an ferrous sulfate based developer)• fix the plate (with potassium cyanide or sodium thiosulfate)
✦ any number of prints can be made
✦ exposure must immediately follow silvering,so requires a traveling darkroom
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Matthew Brady (1822-1896)
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a wet plate photographer at work, circa 1877(illustrator unknown)
(wikipedia)
(Rosenblum)
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Matthew Brady and the Civil War
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Colonels of the 164th New York Cavalry
(Garrison)
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Camp life
(Garrison)
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Artillery
(Garrison)
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Matthew Brady and the Civil War
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Fortifications
(Garrison)
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Matthew Brady and the Civil War
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Lincoln visiting Antietam, 1862
(archives.gov)
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Dead at Antietam, 1862(photograph by Alexander Gardner)
• bloodiest battlein American history(23,000 casualties)
• this photograph was probably posed
(Garrison)
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Matthew Brady and the Civil War
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The Ruins of Charleston, South Carolina, 1865
(Garrison)
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Matthew Brady and the Civil War
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Surveying the West
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The Hayden Survey, 1870(photographed by William Henry Jackson)
(Rosenblum)
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Hayden Survey map of Colorado and Utah, 1874 (USGS)
route of Prof. Levoy’s1984 bicycle tour
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The founding of Yellowstone Park
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Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, 1871(photographed by William Henry Jackson)
(NPS)
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Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, 1872(watercolor by Thomas Moran)
(NPS)
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Slide credits✦ Newhall, B., The History of Photography, Little, Brown & Co., 1982.
✦ Rosenblum, N., A World History of Photography (4th ed.), Abbeville Press, 2007.
✦ Garrison, W., Brady’s Civil War, The Lyons Press, 2000.
✦ Tanser and Kleiner, Gardner’s Art Through the Ages (10th ed.), Harcourt Brace, 1996.
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