History of PhotographyNotes # 3

1850’s-1890’s

Callotype

1850’s- Samual Morse

• Brought photography to America• Inventor of telegraph –rapid long distance

communication –MORSE CODE-

Documentary Images 1840-1860’s

Photographs of actual reality– Landscapes– Nature Scenes– Architecture - help to preserve – Exotic people- Natives Indians– Wars

Julia Margaret CameronPhotographer

• Discovered Hypo• Proposed glass plates to make negatives• At age 49 she decided to become a photographer• She was interested in the inner soul• Was criticized that her technique was not as good because portions of the image

were out of focus

Julia Margaret Cameron

Timothy O’Sullivan & Mathew Brady1861-1865 Documented Civil War for 4 years

Shot over 7,000 negatives of the war

Photographic Van

O’Sullivan at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 1-3“A Harvest of Death”

George Eastman/Kodak-1888Celluloid film- specially coated negative film that would roll on a spool inside a camera

First Point and Shoot Camera

Wood Camera Boxweighed 22oz.

F-stop =F91900 – Browniew camera came out-light weight and more compact

George Eastman with brownie camera

NadarFlamboyant French Photographer

• Interested in shooting from hot air balloons• Shot aerial views of Paris• 1858- first time in history that a photographer shot from an

aerial view• He was a portraitist• First to use artificial light for interior scenes

Flash Powder Photography

Nadar, “Workmen in the Paris Catacombs buried under tunnels”

Flash powder photography- created light to use as a flash. Used cartridges in guns.