Photography In The Early Nineteenth Century

Photography is a word derived from the Greek words photos light and to draw. A scientist called Sir John F.W. Herschel, which was in 1839, first used the word. It was a method which was all about recording images by using light or radiation on a sensitive material. The first known camera was created by Alhazen also known as who lived around 100AD he invented the first pinhole camera this camera was used to capture the movement of the sun. Photography was explained to be the science and art of documenting photographs by capturing light on a light sensitive material which included film or an electronic sensor. Light could be reflected from objects which could expose a chemical or electronic material during a timed exposure which is typically used through a camera which can store the information chemically or electronically. The first photograph was take in 1827 taken by Joseph Nicephore Niepce who made the first photograph

The 1930’s were filled an enormous sense of vulnerability and angst because of the horrifying events of the Great Depression and its impact that it had on the society and economy of the United States of America. People of all classes, races, genders, and heritages were struck by the tragedies of the Great Depression. However, with new advancements in the technology of photography came a new hope and outlook for the future of Americans. The introduction of colored photography along with organized photographic groups and their impact took the World by storm as the realization of normal citizens being impacted by the Great Depression set in.

Have you ever read Louis Sachar’s book Holes? If so, have you ever noticed characters going through struggles or hardships, but, they keep persevering? The main character Stanley perseveres through the situations his family’s curse gets him in, and the author shows his perseverance by using symbolism and hyperbole. In addition, the author uses symbolism to show that Stanley keeps persevering through the situations his family’s curse gets him into.

Henry Peach Robinson was an English photographer whose Pictorialism photographs made him one of the most influential photographers of the 19th century. Photography was his passion, that in 1857, he opened a Photographic studio in Leamington, England. (The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica). Where he began to produce photographs that imitated the themes and compositions popular at the time. He also encouraged many photographers to produce images that looked like paintings. He practiced a technique called combination printing in which he combined separate negatives into a composite picture.

Sense the invention of the camera in 1826 photography has been used to document everything from family portraits, social injustice, sporting events, world news, expressions of joy and sorrow, and hundreds of monumental moments. The camera has given man the power to reveal the truth visually. Throughout history photographs have made enormous impacts on social consciousness and ultimately shaped public opinion on many pressing issues in society. Although photography is often considered a casual pastime, the invention of the camera has contributed to many aspects of history, science, and other important pieces of todays world.

Cameras in the 1890s and 1900s were unwieldy, massive and difficult at best to move around. They did not have the technology we have today to move large cameras or use lighter cameras to film. Méliès’ use of movement was spectacular for someone who did not have access to easily mobile cameras. One must also remember that the first camera Méliès used was not a “professional” camera made by the Lumiere brothers or the later companies that made film equipment. The Lumiere brothers, believing film would only be a short-lived novelty, refused to sell Méliès a camera.

The general notion on 19th century fashion photography is that it did not exist. This is consider a falsity, since the contribution of Parisian fashion photographers dates back to 1881. Perhaps this misbelief its fueled by the general assumption that Americans were first in line when it came to fashion photography, due primarily to Edward Steichen’s statement that he was the first fashion photographer (quote another book*****), and the general understanding that Baron Adolph de Meyer was the first photographer to depict fashion. Both of this statements place Americans in the forefront, when in fact Paris was the first city to truly shone a light on fashion photography. First as a document, then as a commodity and ultimately as an expression.

Painting is a workmanship that has existed since 16th century. Different spots leads by Philadelphia have the accumulations of craftsmanship painting that reflects occasions that have occurred, individuals and society. All work of art shows impact from the general public in which the specialists live, the materials accessible to them, and also the innovation of their times. Ancient man utilized cavern dividers as ground and shades produced using ocher, and his topic was impacted by superstition and nature. Throughout the history of Philadelphia, painting as an art has advanced and there are plenty of collections of gallery artistic pictures belonging to most peculiar artists such as Charles Willson Peale and Benjamin West.

Photography is the art of taking and processing pictures from a camera. The word “photography” comes from the Greek word “photos” (light) and “graphein” (to draw). I personally chose this topic, because I find photographs very interesting. One of the things I find interesting about it is that, several people could be looking at the same photograph, yet everyone has a different perspective on a certain picture. Now I don’t know much about photography, so I’ll be learning as much as you are based on my research. I never even thought that photography could be related to chemistry in so many ways. Silver and Sunlight had been the main objects needed for earlier photography, it was also a modern innovation during the Industrial Revolution.

In 1888, George Eastman made the first light and portable camera under the company name Kodak (Graham 28). These cameras gave people the ability to take a photo almost anywhere. The cameras had to be sent back to the factory so the photographs could be printed. Twenty years after Kodak’s first camera, they produced an improved camera, called “Brownie”. The Brownie was simple to use, making the art of photography boom. Flash cameras did not appear until the 1930s, letting people take pictures in areas with dim or little lighting. In 1947, Edwin Land invented the instant camera. Land got the idea after his daughter asked to see her picture after he took her photo. The next step in improving the camera was by making it digital, which was done in 1975 by a Kodak employee. As the camera gets smaller and simpler to use, the quality of the photographs it produces gets better.

The first photographic image was made in 1827 by a French inventor Nicéphore Niépce, who worked with Louis-Jacques Mande Daguerre, a French painter, late on in his career (Photography). He called his first image “View from the Window at Gras”. Niépce’s first photographic image was a view outside of an upstairs window, which he used a camera obscura to make (Easby). The camera obscura led to the invention of photography and also to the invention of the camera. It consists of a box with a hole on one side, while light from an outside source passes through the hole and strikes the surface inside. The light is then reproduced and rotated 180 degrees and projected onto a piece of paper. When Niépce was creating this photograph, it took 8 hours to produce (Easby). Niépce used a copper plate coated in silver and pewter, a gray mixture of tin with copper and antimony. However, this led to the resolution of the image to be very grainy and hard to see (Easby). Multiple photographs of Niépce’s turned out to be black from this expose to light.

Leading up to the 19th century portrait painting had been a practice only for the noble or exceptionally wealthy. Overtime portraits were becoming more available to the greater public through miniatures, silhouettes, and camera lucida drawings. Then the invention of the camera came in the 19th century and portraits would become available to anyone. As more people entered the photography world a new profession began called portrait photography. Portrait photography uses the aesthetic guidelines set by portrait painters to set up their portraits. On the other hand painters would use photographs or negatives as a way to keep exactitude while painting. The artist would sometimes team up to work in studios like Albert Sands Southworth and

Art critic Robert Hughes once said, “People inscribe their histories, beliefs, attitudes, desires and dreams in the images they make.” When discussing the mediums of photography and cinema, this belief of Hughes is not very hard to process and understand. Images, whether they be still or moving, can transform their audiences to places they have either never been before or which they long to return to. Images have been transporting audiences for centuries thanks to both the mediums of photography and cinema and together they gone through many changes and developments. When careful consideration is given to these two mediums, it is acceptable to say that they will forever be intertwined, and that they have been interrelated forms of

It is likely that many artists will have used a camera obscura to aid them in drawing, but because of the stories of the occult, or because they felt it was "cheating" in some way not many people would admit to using one. In 1764, the lens was being developed. The name lens comes from

The Digital Image is relatively new in the large scheme of things, with the advancement of technology also came the evolution of this medium. The first instance of digital imaging came with the invention of the camera. Photography as we know it today is usually considered to have begun in 1839 when Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre released the Daguerreotype image. Photography would remain from this point a relatively expensive and crude medium that would slowly progress through the years. In 1877 Eadweard Muybridge created a fast shutter that was capable of capturing motion. This in itself was iconic and Eadweard would later be considered a pioneer for the digital image due to his work on locomotion (famously the galloping horse). Photography