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EARLY 19TH CENT. PHOTOGRAPHY

1. Positivism2. Camera

obscura3. Daguerreoty

pe4. Calotype5. Value6. Aperture

FIND AND DEFINE

1. You have 5 minutes to study/quiz each other over the 6

previous vocabulary words.

2. We will take a pop-quiz immediately after this. Let’s test

your short-term memory…

AT YOUR TABLES…

VALUE

VIVACIOUS

IMPASTO

DAGUERROTYPE

CALOTYPE

POSITIVISM

PHOTOGRAPHY

PARIS, FRANCE

APERTURE

Working individually, take 5 minutes and write the definitions of

the following in your own words. Put your name on the paper, and

turn it into me.VALUE CAMERA OBSCURA CALOTYPE

APERTURE DAGUERROTYPEPOSITIVISM

Independently, read each paragraph beginning at “Early Photography in Europe.” Stop reading at “New Materials

and Technology in Arch…”

Upon completion, go back and write 2 defining sentences for each paragraph. You are only allowed to write two sentences. You will need to go back through the book.

When you are finished, you can either:

1. Flip through the book, not on your phone.

2. Sit quietly and wait, not on your phone.

3. Go back and add an additional sentence to each paragraph. ✔

READ PGS 964 – 966, INCLUDING “TECHNIQUE”

Emerged around 1840

Joseph Niépce made first photographs of view from

windows

Camera obscura: darkened room or box with a lens

through which light passes

Value: the darkness or lightness of a color or shade.

Daguerrotype: positive print on copperplate

Calotype: first photographic process using a negative plate

and positive paper prints.

EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY

DAGUERRE, THE ARTIST’S STUDIO, 1837

WILLIAM FOX-TALBOT, THE OPEN DOOR, 1843

OSCAR REJLANDER, THE TWO PATHS OF LIFE, 1857

Question?

In your opinion, do you think Photography is a genuine form of art? Why or why not?

Critiques in 19th century believed photography wasn’t a “high art” because

“mechanical contrivances” could not produce works of art.

THINK!