Daguerreotype

jewelry cases. He was on his way to Albany for reasons unknown when he met William Page, a painter, who introduced him to Samuel Morse. It was Samuel Morse who taught him how to take daguerreotypes, a type of photography in which you create a mirror image on a silver-surfaced copper plate. After he had mastered daguerreotypes he opened his own miniature gallery to show off his photographs. It was a successful gallery. He had won medals every year from 1844-1850. He had also begun photographing famous

People, every day, are surrounded by architecture. Architecture is the careful planning, designing, and construction of buildings (REF). Usually the architecture of a building accurately displays the culture in which the building is located in. Although they are cultural symbols, they can also be perceived as works of art. This perceived notion of art attracted artists of all different fields. Since the start of photography, architectural photography was always a very common practice(REF). Three

The words from the song Flash Bang Wallop which featured in the 1963 musical Half a Sixpence. Not quite historically correct, though the idea of cameras and photography did exist some five hundred years before the birth of Christ. The word “photography” from the Greek works phos meaning light and graphein, to write – wasn’t coined, however, until the mid19th century by Sire John Frederick William Herschel. Two figures in particular were key to its development – Frenchman Louise Daguerre and British

Born of Irish immigrants in 1823 in a little place called Warren County, New York; Mathew Brady is known as “The Father of Photojournalism.” While a student of Samuel Morse and a friend of Louis Daguerre (inventor of the “Daguerreotype,” a method of photography that the image is developed straight onto a metal coated surface), in which he had met while under the study of Morse, Brady took up his interest in photography in the year of 1839, while only seventeen years of age. Brady took what he had

Prompt One: I take pictures with my cell phone on a daily basis. I gave birth to my daughter in February and I take a few photos of her every day. I use these to update my family on her growth and new milestones. I devote a fair amount of attention to composition, lighting, and arrangement in my photos. I am definitely not a professional photographer but I could definitely improve my photos by spending more time with lighting, arrangement, and angles. How much attention do you devote to composition

‘Lilliputians crawl over the body of this giant, maybe not even knowing that they're on a giant until they fall into a nostril or trip over beard stub- ble…’ Chuck Close uses this metaphor from Gulliver’s Travels to describe the experience of viewing his large scale portraits. From far away they look like identical reproductions of a photograph blown up so large that the information within it becomes overwhelming. The closer you get to it, the more it abstracts itself and becomes unrecognizable

David Burnett is an American photojournalist born on the 7th of September 1946, in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. He is based in Washington D.C. He first launched his photogenic career in 1976 as an intern at Time Magazine. He was also also studying at Colorado College for his political science degree. He graduated from Colorado College in 1968 with his political science degree and began working as a freelance photographer for Time and Life, first in the United States and later in Vietnam. He became

Today I am going to be talking about how to take beautiful and excellent looking snapshots. All photographers strive to get the best picture they possibly can, and they want it to look perfect. There are many ways and aspects to getting your snapshot looking excellent, professional, and vivid. I am going to be talking about each of the traits and their qualities. Some people may not realize it, but there is so much more to just snapping a picture. That's not what it's all about. One of the

It all started in with a photographer named Edward Muybridge. He was a bright photographer who gained recognition by photographing animals and humans in movement. He was hired by a rail road baron in 1872 to prove that there is a certain point in a horse’s gallop, when all of the horse’s hooves are off the ground. From his success with this project he went to produce many more movement studies as he worked at the University of Pennsylvania. Muybridge used a process called freeze frame to create this

An American portrait photographer, Philippe Halsman, in the mid 1900’s once said, “A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the Testimony of how this person looked and what kind of human being he was.” He provides a good point, as he gives his opinion that portraits are a representation of an individual, to show the memory of their soul through artwork even if it’s photographs, paintings, drawings, or sculptures. Whether it is to remember the past or present, portraits tell their