PhotographyPhotography

Camera (room) Obscura (dark)

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/museum/images/cameraobscura.jpg

First Photograph: 1827 Niepce

http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/p/images/photo_niepce.lg.jpg

Daguerreotype (1839)

Daguerre

Positive images

Copper plate coated w/ silver

Each one was original

Calotype (1839)

Talbot

Negative images

Paper treated with silver nitrate and KI

Many prints could be made from original

http://www.daguerre.org/gallery/mk/mk_intro.htmlhttp://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/hillandadamson/calo.html

Wet Collodion Process

1851

Dissolved ether, gun cotton and KI was applied to a plate w/silver nitrate

Messy

Short exposure time

Dry Collodion Process

1871

Used plates coated with gelatin

Neat

Long exposure time

Made photography widely available

http://cottongenomics.tamu.edu/images/cottonboll.jpg

http://www.2ndamendment.com/Images/Rifle223.jpeg

http://tonova.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/jello.jpg

Photographic Prints1. Salted paper

http://albumen.stanford.edu/

http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/photography/processframe.php?processid=pr002

2. Albumen : salted egg whites and silver nitrate.

3. Gelatin silver prints: more silver

http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/photography/process.php?processid=pr011&row=2

Europeans were initially hostile towards photography!

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Americans welcomed photography!

http://www.punchstock.com/image/rubberball/7356444/comp/c4_00.jpghttp://www.cajunimages.com/images/American%20Flag.jpg

http://metalkings.ru/reviews/hostile-breed/hostile-breed-02.jpg

Eventually, photography caused painting to become generally less realistic and more expressive.

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