History of Photography-Notes #1



History of Photography-Notes #1The beginnings of Photgraphy were from 1827-1844.It started with Joseph Niepce in 1814. Niepce was a frustrated artist and began to experiment with a camera (CHAMBER) obscura (DARK). The camera was used for tracing and sketching images. The mirror caught the light inside and reflected the image upside down onto the top of the camera.Photography was started in France and England in 1839.Photography was considered an art form as well as scientific it had both aspects.Camera obscura was a camera with out film in it. The hole was the lens which allowed light to come in.In France1826: First Permanent ImageFrench inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce uses a camera obscura to burn a permanent image of the countryside at his Le Gras, France, estate onto a chemical-coated pewter plate. He names his technique "heliography," meaning "sun drawing."Helio-sun and graph-writing. The black-and-white exposure takes eight hours and fades significantly, but an image is still visible on the plate today.1826, Niepce, “View from window at Le Gras “, 8 hour exposure1839: Daguerre: Still life reduced exposure from 8 hours to 1 hour1839: First Photo of a PersonIn early 1839, French painter, stage designer and chemist Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre photographs a Paris street scene from his apartment window using a camera obscura and his newly invented daguerreotype process. The long exposure time (20 minutes) means moving objects like pedestrians and carriages don't appear in the photo. But an unidentified man who stops for a shoeshine remains still long enough to unwittingly become the first person ever photographed.1839: Daguerre: “Boulivard de Temple, Paris” 20 minute exposureDaguerretype- image recorded on a metal plate coated with light sensitive chemicals making negatives that records as a a positive. In January 7, 1839 Dagurre went before the French academy when photo process went public.In EnglandEnglish scientist and frustrated painter, William Henry Fox Talbot began to research on how to photo process. He produced a photographic image that was earlier than Daguerre called “Of a window “in 1835 the earliest negative recorded.Photogenic process- botanical specimenPhotogram – photographic image exposed to light and sensitized to sensitive to lightIn Jan. 31st Talbot goes before royal society and grants him the first photographic process over Daguerre. Daguerre’s process although stunningly beautiful died out by photographers after 1865. Talbot's negative/positive process eventually succeeded as the basis for almost all 19th and 20th century photographyTalbot made his photos on specifically coated paper. In 1841 2 yrs. later the process was called Collotype.Collotype- produced in the camera exposed to the paper developed it was still a negative image then transferred to positive. ................
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