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Title of Photo
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Daguerre
Boulevard du Temple
1838
1st photo known to include humans |
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Talbot
The Haystack
1844
Shows much detail that an artist would normally spend hours doing |
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| Significant Activities of Nöel Paymal Lerebours |
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1. Commisioned artists to record wonders of the world
2. Complied books of them - allowed everyone to see them
3. Reproduced Daguerreotypes with ink methods |
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Fenton
Valley of the Shadow of Death
1855
Unpeopled alien landscape, wet-colidon process, in the line of fire |
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Hill and Adamson
Sandy (or James) Linton, his Boat, and Bairns
1843-46
Documented everyday life of fishermen,
Alcohol process |
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Diamond
Melancholia Passing into Mania
1851
Portrait of woman from an asylum, thought photos could be used to diagnose and treat patients |
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Le Gray
The Forest of Fontainebleau
1855
Study of how light passes through trees, wax paper negative process |
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| The technical improvements needed to make the Daguerreotype practical |
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| - F3.6 allowed for a shorter shutter speed |
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| Talbot envisioned this use for photography |
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| The reproduction of an image |
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| The significance for photography at the Great Exhibition of 1851 |
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| The 770 photographs demonstrated just how important the medium was becoming |
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| Floral studies for wallpaper |
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Le Gray
The Great Wave, Sète
1856-59
Took two photos in varying light conditions and put them together to compensate for the sensitivity to the color blue |
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Nadar
Sarah Bernhardt
c. 1864
Taken before she was famous, used directional lighting |
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Carroll
Alice Liddell as "The Beggar Maid"
c. 1859
The girl who inspired his books, Alice in Wonderland, etc. |
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Rejlander
Two Ways of Life
1857
A compilation of 30 negatives to create the controversial image |
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Cameron
Beatrice
1866
Made her a character in the play "The Cenci" (her last name), Woman was hung for arranging for her abusive father to be killed |
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| How were artistic practitioners distinguished from commercial operators? |
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- composition and lighting
- printing and processing techniques |
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| Two characteristics of carte de visite |
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- 8 different small pictures taken on 1 plate
-size of a calling card |
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| British photographers who used children and young women as their models |
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- Lewis Carroll
- Lady Clementina Hawarden |
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| a print made from multiple negatives |
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Frith
The Pyramids of Dashoor, from the East
1858
most ambitious for time, largest book with the largest unenlarged prints |
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Watkins
Agassiz Rock and Yosimite Falls, from Union Point
c. 1878
Shows grand scale and tiny detail, used a camera able to make "mamouth" negatives (18x22)
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Beato
Samurai of the Satsuma Clan
1868-69
Taken at a crucial moment in the transition in Japan's leadership |
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Bertillon
Synoptic Table of the Forms of the Nose
c.1893
Part of the system of photos that introduced this way of recording criminals to the police procedure |
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| A device through which two near-identical images are viewed, giving the illusion of 3D space |
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| Two subjects of stereo photographs |
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| Compare the influences of Tim O'Sullivan and William Henry |
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Tim - influenced by people outside the team
William - influenced by a painter on the team that did landscapes |
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Muybridge
Leland Stanford, Jr. on his pony "Gypsy"
1879
Scientific value, proved horse had 4 feet off the ground @ once, part of the experiment |
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Riis
Lodgers in Bayard Street Tenement, Five Cents a Spot
1889
Part of his influencial book "How the Other Half Lives", used a newly invented flashlight to light it in the middle of the night |
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Church
George Eastman on Board SS Gallia
1890
Epitomizes the sort of person the Kodak camera was marketed at, taken by his pattent attorney |
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Emerson
Rowing Home the Schoof-Stuff
1886
His photos focus on the land, its conditions, its inhabitants and its weather and light conditions |
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| Purpose of John H. Lamprey's Grid |
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| Made it easier to measure features of the body, so that the differences in physique could be recorded |
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Date of the 1st achievement of an x-ray photograph
Reason why they were associated with spiritualism and the occult |
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1895
It had the power to reveal the invisable |
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| Why the Kodak was different from previous versions of hand-held cameras |
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| It was merely the 1st stage in a complete system of amateur photography |
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| The truthful representation of "natural objects [without] trick, device or subterfuge" |
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Steichen
The Pond - Moonrise
1904
In an attempt to create a color print, Steichen applied Prussian Blue and calcium based white pigment to suggest the color of the light. |
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Stieglitz
The Steerage
1907
Interested in the shapes that were in the frame, used the only negative he had prepared on the ship to take the image |
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Fredrick Evans
A Sea of Steps
1903
"The balance and proportion and, ultimately, the minimalism and abstraction of its composition, a flattened perspective using a telephoto lens"
"record emotion rather than a piece of typography" |
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Stieglitz
Equilvalent, Set C2, No. 5
c. 1929
in search of the same purity and abstraction that music provoked |
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Höch
Cut With the Kitchen Knife
1919-20
Composition evokes poltical and social upheaval that shattered the German Republic after the war.
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Rodchenko
Osip Brik
1924
Eyes command attention; no longer 'windows to the soul" |
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Lissitzky
The Constructor (Self-Portait)
1924
Most famous realization of darkroom techniques; encompasses rational and technical sides of Russian Construction |
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Moholy-Nagy
From the Radio Tower, Berlin
1928
Cuts off rest of scene and makes it abstract |
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Ruge + Tschicholds
'Film and Foto' Eshibition Poster
1929
Championed a revolutionary role for the camera that is powerfully conveyed in the poster |
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Sander
Young Farmers
1914
Full length format lends a sense of objectivity and regularity, part of a series |
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Capa
Death of a Loyalist Militiaman
1936
Became the defining image of the Spainish Civil War |
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Atget
Carbaret at the Sign of the Armed Man, XVth
1900
From his series of images based on the changes going on in the city in the 1860s |
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| 2 movements in art and design that influenced styles of fashion photography |
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| Decade when a fully formed vocabulary for street photography was developed |
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| Surrealist influences on Cartier-Bresson's street photographs |
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| Arresting Juxtaposition or unanticipated compsitional tension |
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Walker Evans
Penny Picture Display
1936
unites commercial marketability of inexpensive studio portraits with interests of fine are photography |
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Abbott
"El," Second and Third Avenue Lines
1936
Still uses 8x10 view camera
Documents changes in city and the combination of old and new |
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Lange
Migrant Mother
1936
Perhaps the best known photo produced by the FSA during the Great Depression |
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| The cause that Lewis Hines worked for in the early 20th century and the format in which his photographs appeared |
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Progressivist Movement
On Posters, in Bulletins and in Journals |
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| Why the FSA established a historical section |
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| To document its activities and advocate for government aid |
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Capa
Omaha Beach
1944
1 of 11 photos that was not ruined in a darkroom error |
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Sudek
February (From the Window of my Studio)
1948
More about atmosphere that what is outside the window |
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Avedon
Dovima with Elephants
1955
Photo of opposites (juxtaposition), of one of the first evening gowns designed by Dior, Avedon had a vision of a dreamlike scene he could create in this space |
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Frank
Trolley - New Orleans
1955
Assumed to be a social critique |
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| What was provided to photographers accepted into the Magnum Photos Cooporative |
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| Independance from Magazines |
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| Similarities between Minor White and Alfred Stieglitz |
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- Interest in Abstract Photography
- believed that abstract forms could metaphorically reveal inner states of mind and emotions |
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Gary Winogrand
Central Park Zoo, NYC
1967
A message about racial discrimation |
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William Eggleston
Untitled (Memphis)
1970
Depicted ordinary things with the color that was, at the time, reserved for advertising and magazines |
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Bernd + Hilla Becher
Framework Houses
1959-73
A catalog of similar architectural detail on different houses photographed at a similar vantage point |
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| 3 photographers from the exhibition "New Documents" and why their photographic documents where considered "new" |
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1. Diane Arbus
2. Gary Winogrand
3. Lee Friedlander |
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