Flashcards and Answers – History of Photography
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camera obscura
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a darkened enclosure in which images of outside objects are projected through a small aperture or lens onto a facing surface
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camera lucida
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an optical device consisting of an attachment that enables an observer to view simultaneously the image and a drawing surface for sketching it
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phantasmagoria
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Illuminated by the Argand Oil Lamp, it was an advanced magic lantern that created rear-screen image projections of ghosts, skeletons, and celebrities in a semidarkened theatre. Special effects of lightning, thunder, and smoke enhanced the eerie atmosphere.
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View from His Window at Le Gras - Joseph Nicephore Nipce
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Heliograph
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View of Boulevard du Temple - Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre
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Daguerreotype
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William Henry Fox Talbot
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Latticed Window at Lacock Abbey 1835(Description on photo) English inventor, produced a positive image on a paper negative in 1835. This was the first positive/negative process closest to what we do now with film. Multiple images could be made from the same negative.
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Anna Atkins
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botanist (1799 - 1871) She was a botanist and was also the first woman photographer.
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Hippolyte Bayard
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invented the first direct positive process; first self-portrait. Self Portrait as a Drowned Man 1840
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Carl Ferdinand Stelzner
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Mother Alberts, The Family Vegetable Woman. Daguerreotype. Photography democratized portraiture by making it economically feasible for ordinary working people to have their likeness memorialized.
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Théodore Maurisset
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Fantasies: La Daguerreotypomanie. Hand-colored Lithograph
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Henry Fitz, JR
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Self-Portrait with Eyes Closed. Ninth plate daguerreotype.
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John Plumbe, JR
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Portrait of a Man Reading a Newspaper
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Southworth & Hawes
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Whole plate daguerreotype
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Augustus Washington
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Portrait of abolitionist John Brown, holding one hand up next to white flag. African American photographer.
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Platt D. Babbitt
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Tourists Viewing Niagra Falls from Prospect Point. Whole plate daguerreotype with applied color.
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John Whipple
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The Moon Quarter plate daguerreotype.
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William Henry Fox Talbot
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The Open Door. Broom against door jamb. English inventor and pioneer in photography who published the first book illustrated with photographs (1800-1877)
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David Octavius Hill and Roert Adamson
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Lady Elizabeth Eastlake (Miss Rigby) Lady sitting next to a table with figurines on it. White dress, eyes closed.
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Philip H. Delamotte
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Building Up the Colossi of Abbo Simbel. Huge feet statues, construction site.
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Thomas Sutton
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Jersey, 1856. Calotype negative. Castle looking building.
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Gustave Le Gray
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The Sun at Zenith, Normandy 1855. Albumen print from paper negative. Sunset over oceanlike water.
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Charles Negre
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Man standing on balcony of a building next to a gargoyle.
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Henri Le Secq
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Cathedral at Laon, France. Calotype. Twin towers, circular window.
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Edouard Baldus
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Took a photo of shown image: The Louvre, Colbert Pavilion
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Charles Marville
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Took a photo of shown image: La Porte Rouge, Notre Dame de Paris
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Andre-Adolphe-Eugene-Disderi
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Photo of a clown in eight images together. Albumen Print Paul Legrand (Clown in White Face) 1860-1865
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John E. Mayall
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Death of Prince Albert Montage.
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J. E. Whitney Studio, St. Paul, MN
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Photograph of an Indian dressed man. Murderer ad. Cut Nose, 1862
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Mathew Brady Studio
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Abraham Lincoln 1863
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Andre-Adolphe-Eugene-Disderi
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Supplicies (Louis Napoleon Album, Heads of Executed Men)
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Nadar
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Portrait of a woman in an aphgan thing. 1877
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Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon
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Alphonse Karr from Galerie Contemporaine. Back view of a balding man wearing mostly black
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Napoleon Sarony
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Adah Isaacs Menkin as Mazeppa 1866 Woman lying on side with hat
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Antoine Claudet
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Double Image : Portrait of Claudet Family 1855
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George N. Barnard
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Fire in the Ames Mills Oswego NY Burning BARN
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Roger Fenton
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Photo minus all the edited crap in it. The Valley of the Shadow of Death was a pioneering British photographer, one of the first war photographers; he photographed the Crimean war
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Felice Beato
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Interior of Fort Taku in North China Immediately after Capture. Ladders Dead bodies scattered on ground.
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Alexander Gardner
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Rocks, guy dead on ground, rifle propped on rocks. \"Death of a Rebel Sharp Shooter\" -this photo was slightly manipulated for composition -photographed Civil War, Lincoln -Scottish
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John Reekie
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A Burial Party, Cold Harbor, VA Black guy sitting next to pile of skulls.
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Timothy H. O'Sullivan
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A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, PA Dead bodies scattered in a field.
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Andrew J. Russell
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Stone Wall, Rear of Fredericksburg Ditch with Dead bodies and rifles lined up by each body.
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William Bell
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Gunshot Wound Middle Third of Left Femur. Guy standing in shirt next to mirror with messed up looking thigh.
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William Lake Price
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Lady Clementina Hawarden
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Photographic Study. Girl along starry wallpaper
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Lady Filmer
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Untitled. Photos of portraits and flower and butterfly drawings.
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Lewis Carroll
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Irene MacDonald. Girl laying on her side in a rounded vignette in pillows and sheets
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Oscar G Rejander
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Two Ways of Life Two sides of a photos, two men looking at opposite situations. nudes curtains classical looking
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Richard Cockle Lucas
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A Necromancer from studies of expression. Guy standing with walking stick against a tree wearing ratty clothes looking into distance
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Henry Peach Robinson
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Fading Away , Girl dying from disease in bed with two women and a man looking out window. Set up image. started photography in 1852; became the leader of a so-called High Art movement which advocated beauty and artisitic effect no matter how it was obtained
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Julia Margaret Cameron
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Sir John Herchel- Crazy looking eyes, looks like old woman with babushka on. One of the first photographers in the history of photography. Took portraits of close and famous friends and had very close portrait compositions that would only show upper torso or head. used natural light really well with her portraits
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Dr. Hugh Welch Diamond
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Mental Patient. Self-Explainatory.
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Dr. Thomas John Barnardo
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NO. 27 Once a Little Vagrant Cards
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Maxime Du Camp
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Egyptian thing. The Colossus of Abu-Simbel.
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John Beasly Greene
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Bank of Nile at Thebes. Bland Image of Water and a sprout of trees in one far area of the image.
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Auguste Salzmann
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Jerusalem. City, castle looking, landscape image
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Francis Frith
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The Sphinx and Great Pyramid Geezah. Egyptian things. Pyramid and Sphinx
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Robert Macpherson
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Horse and Chariot Statue.
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Fratelli Alinari
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ll Portico Degli Uffixi E II Palazzo. View down small street.
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Auguste- Rosalie Bisson
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Ascension of Mont-Blanc. Rocks with a bunch of little figurines.
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Philip H. Delamonte
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Stuffed Animals and Ethographic Figures. Bull being pulled by the horns.
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Robert Howlett
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Big Ship. Leviathan.
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Camille Silvy
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River Scene Circular vignette
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Samuel Bourne
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The Viceroy's Elephants.
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LaLa Deen Dayal
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Water Palace Deeg
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John Thomson
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The Crawlers. Old woman holding small baby sitting in the street.
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Thomas Annan
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Close no. 31 Saltmarket. Alley view. he photographed reality of industrial cities
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Thomas M. Easterly
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Na-che-ninga, Chief of the Iowas. Native American with earings and such.
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Andrew J. Russell
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Trestle work
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Carleton E. Watkins
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El-Eachas or Three brothers Three points off a mountain
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Timothy O' Sullivan
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Shoshone Falls, Idaho. Waterfall
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william henry jackson
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The Mountain of the holy cross.
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Eadweard J Muybridge
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Clouds Rest, valley of the yosemite
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Eadweard J Muybridge
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Galloping horse. Series of running horse.
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Thomas Eakins
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Jesse Godley walking man.
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Eadweard Muybridge
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Woman walking around with cloth
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Etienne Jules Marey
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Man Pole Vaulting
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Ottomar Anshutz
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Storks
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R. K. Albright
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descending vesuvius. Complete circle vignette.
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Emile Zola
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The Universal Exposition. Eiffel Tower.
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Paul Nadar
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The art of living a hundred years. three photos of two old men.
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Levi L HILL
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Landscape with Farmhouse
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Fred Payne Clatworthly
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Indian Chief, color. In sun, facing right.
