Printable Flash Cards

Silhouette of Benjamin Franklin - Silhouettes were cheap/popular ways to make copies/likenesses of people- the profile view was unique per person

Physionotrace Portrait - combined the silhouette and the engraving - profile was traced by stylus onto glass. the stylus was connected to an engraving tool that traced onto copper plate- easily reproduced in numbers.

Lucida Drawing of Villa Melzi - Fox Talbot --- Talbot traced this scene of Lake Como, Italy from a reflected image on paper via Camera Lucida

Niepce - View from Window at Gras - "Heliograph" - considered the first successful photograph made with a camera obscura. - exp. time was 8 hours, the sun moved from horizon to horizon almost obliterating the image

Daguerre - Boulevard du Temple, Paris -- Samuel Morse met Daguerre in Paris when he came to get a patent for his telegraph - Daguerre showed Morse this image. They both began as painters but Morse couldn't "fix" his images when trying photography. --- The shoeshine man was the only thing in focus because he was still during the exposure-- traffic was moving too fast

Fox Talbot - Botanical Specimen -- Photogenic Drawing

Fox Talbot - Latticed Window (negative)

Fox Talbot - paper negative process developed by Talbot - notice the brushstrokes and irregular application of emulsion

Hyppolyte Bayard - Self Portrait as a Drowned Man - Could be the first fictional or staged photograph - Bayard took advantage of the photograph being seen as fact and wanted to trick the viewer into believing that he had killed himself. He was angry that the french government and public did not acknowledge him as an inventor of photography

"Dorothy Draper" by John Draper - (Daguerreotype) - Draper put flour on the face of his sister to increase reflectiveness and reduce exposure time

Portrait of Frederick Douglass - (Daguerreotype)

An early Dagguerrean Portrait - Less expensive studios sacrificed professional lighting - the lighting here is completely different on each person and only half of the man's face is lit. The painter Grant Wood is said to have referrenced portraits like this before painting his famous American Gothic

anonymous dagguerreotype - in the 19th century the photograph was seen as a surrogate for that which is represents

Thomas Easterly - Family Group with Nanny - (dagguerreotype) - the mother is missing (dead) and the nanny is included to show her importance in the family - the lighting is even and the perspective is frontal

Hill and Adamson - James Linton - Redding the Line)

Three Sisters Portrait, Berlin - dagguereotype

two ladies - (tintype) - the collodian emulsion has peeled off the tintype

hill and adamson - the misses benni and miss munro - the girls are drawn to something beyond the frame. Hill has tried retouching the tripod that keeps the girl from moving

hill and adamson - professor james miller. the skull = momento mori (reminder of mortality) and a reference to his profession as a surgeon. hill has relied on direct sunlight to get a circular composition - the look beyond the frame is very hill and adamsony

Julia Margaret Cameron - "Enid (emily peacock)"

the light is difused and glowy because she turned her greenhouse/chicken coop into a studio

William England - "niagara suspension bridge"

isambard kingdom brunel in front of some chains he made - he dug tunnels for england at age 20 and became rich eventually - he built a huge steam ship " the great eastern"