history of photography notes # 3 1850’s-1890’s callotype
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History of PhotographyNotes # 3
1850’s-1890’s
Callotype
1850’s- Samual Morse
• Brought photography to America• Inventor of telegraph –rapid long distance
communication –MORSE CODE-
Documentary Images 1840-1860’s
Photographs of actual reality– Landscapes– Nature Scenes– Architecture - help to preserve – Exotic people- Natives Indians– Wars
Julia Margaret CameronPhotographer
• Discovered Hypo• Proposed glass plates to make negatives• At age 49 she decided to become a photographer• She was interested in the inner soul• Was criticized that her technique was not as good because portions of the image
were out of focus
Julia Margaret Cameron
Timothy O’Sullivan & Mathew Brady1861-1865 Documented Civil War for 4 years
Shot over 7,000 negatives of the war
Photographic Van
O’Sullivan at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 1-3“A Harvest of Death”
George Eastman/Kodak-1888Celluloid film- specially coated negative film that would roll on a spool inside a camera
First Point and Shoot Camera
Wood Camera Boxweighed 22oz.
F-stop =F91900 – Browniew camera came out-light weight and more compact
George Eastman with brownie camera
NadarFlamboyant French Photographer
• Interested in shooting from hot air balloons• Shot aerial views of Paris• 1858- first time in history that a photographer shot from an
aerial view• He was a portraitist• First to use artificial light for interior scenes
Flash Powder Photography
Nadar, “Workmen in the Paris Catacombs buried under tunnels”
Flash powder photography- created light to use as a flash. Used cartridges in guns.