Study Guide - Photography

Camera Lucida- artist saw at the same time both the subject and the drawing paper. His pencil was guided by the virtual image.

Camera Lucida was VERY portable and did not require a mirror nor a dark room. While the camera obscura needed darkness &/or a mirror – even when it became portable.

camera obscura (Latin words meaning "dark room"). Dark box or room with a pinhole. An image is formed upside down on a wall from the pinhole on the opposite wall.

“Home of a rebel sharp-shooter” ~ Mathew Brady

Kodak Brownie Camera by Eastman, To get the film developed you had to return the camera to the Eastman Dry Plate Company in Rochester, New York. For $10.00 they would develop the photographs, put more film in your camera and mail everything back to you.

Collodion is known as the Wet Plate Process.

Convenient b/c it was more sensitive to light &reduced exposure times.

Inconvenient b/c you had to have a portable darkroom.

Calotype provided the first practical method of producing “prints” on paper from a negative. THE FIRST NEGATIVE.

Another collodian process that became very popular due to the cheap output process was the Tintype.

Kodachrome was the first color film that had more than one layer of film

The first color plates were invented in 1907 by Auguste and Louis Lumiere. They named it Autochrome.

A film sensitive to all colors called "panchromatic film”. You had to take three separate negatives and then use a special viewer so you could see all three slides laid on top of each other.

Oscar Barnack invented a camera with sprockets, the first 35mm film. The camera was a Leica.

Jan Vermeer paintings are known for their "camera-like" detail and quality – he supposedly used a camera obscura.

"View of Delft"Vermeer

The problem with a single view of the CO, is you are limited to the field of view in front of the glass. . . which is not always clear or sharp. By introducing 2 lenses to the equation, the angle of view could be made narrow or wide for portrait or landscape work.

A.Adams – “Mount Williamson”

Dorothea Lange ~ ”Tractored out Childress County Texas”

“Afghan Girl” ~ Steve McCurry

Uelsmann ~ “untitled 1980”

Jerry Uelsmann created unique images with composite photographs.

Dorothea Lange took photographs during the Great Depression.

Robert Capa has taken many famous war-time photographs.

Ansel Adams shot stunning landscape dynamic range photography.

E.Weston ~ “Artichoke Halved”

Thomas Wedgewood created sun prints with leaves on leather treated with silver salts. Daguerre was able to FIX the exposure process by washing off the excess silver iodide with warm water & table salt.