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The camera obscura
(Gregory)
(Gustavson)
Philip Steadmans model (1995) Vermeer, The Music Lesson (c. 1665)
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The camera obscura
Philip Steadmans model (1995) Vermeer, The Music Lesson (c. 1665)
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Nicphore Nipce (1765-1833)
first photographic image
bitumen on
pewter plate
8-hour
exposure
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Diorama in Regents Park, London, 1823 Marc Levoy
Louis Daguerre (1787-1851)
silver halide on
polished metal
no negative, so
cannot reproduce
tone reversal
unless lit carefully
(Newhall)
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Still life, 1837 Marc Levoy
Louis Daguerre (1787-1851)
the daguerreotype
silver halide on
polished metal
no negative, so
cannot reproduce
tone reversal
unless lit carefully
(Newhall)
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Still life, 1837 Marc Levoy
William Talbot (1800-1877)
the calotype
name photography
suggested by F. W. Herschel
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Latticed window at Lacock Abbey, 1835 Marc Levoy
The daguerreotype portrait
(Rosenblum)
hands clenched to
avoid movement
(Rosenblum)
father of modern
meteorology
inventor of telegraph
(and Morse code)
painter
mathematician and
photograph by author of childrens books
Lewis Caroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
of Alice Lidell
(1858)
albumen paper print
made from wet-plate
collodion negative
Lewis Caroll, 1863 (from here on)
(photograph by Oscar Rejlander)
(Rosenblum)
Rosenblum, N., A World History of Photography (4th ed.), Abbeville Press, 2007.
Gregory, R., et al., The Artful Eye, Oxford University Press, 1995.
http://wikipedia.org
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