American realist
painter,
photographer,
sculptor, and fine
arts educator
Widely acknowledged
to be one of the most
important artists in
American art history
Peter Henry
Emerson
(1856-1936)
A Winter's
Morning (1887)
British writer
and
photographer
Known for taking
photographs that
displayed natural settings
and for his disputes with
the photographic
establishment about the
purpose and meaning of
photography
1887 –
Celluloid
film base
introduced
1888 – The Kodak n°1
box camera, the first
easy-to-use camera is
introduced
1888 – Louis Le
Prince makes
Roundhay Garden
Scene, believed to
be the first
motion picture on
film ever made
1898 – Kodak
introduces the
Folding Pocket
Kodak
1860-1879
Timothy H.
O'Sullivan
(1840-1882)
The Harvest of Death' (1863)
Known for his
work related to the
American Civil
War and the
Western United
States
Eadweard
Muybridge
(1830-1904)
English photographer
important for his
pioneering work in
photographic studies of
motion, and early work
in motion-picture
projection
Wanted to prove a horse lifted 4 feet when it trotted
Phases of a Stride by a
Pony While Cantering
(1879)
André
Adolphe-Eugène
Disdéri (1819–1889)
Carte de Visite (Cdv)
November 1854
Annotations:
French
Portraits photographed
8 times in a rapid
sequence by a camera
with 8 lens'
8 poses in the space
of a few minutes
Small, and sent in
the post - Turned
photography into a
true industry
French photographer
who started his
photographic career as a
daguerreotypist but
gained greater fame for
patenting his version of
the carte de visite, a
small photographic
image which was
mounted on a card
1871-1878
- Dry
Plates
American Civil
War - 1861 to
1865
1871 – The gelatin
emulsion is invented
by Richard Maddox
1839-1859
Louis Daguerre
(1787–1851)
Annotations:
Discovered his own method of fixing the shadows.
Fixed his images on a mirrored metal plate.
The images made, were one-off prints: Dagurreotype - described as "mirrored memory" in the 19th century. Unique visual experience
Fixing the
shadows
1839
French artist and
photographer,
recognized for his
invention of the
daguerreotype process
of photography
Boulevard du Temple
(1838)
Daguerreotype
Annotations:
Images were fixed on a mirrored metal plate, and they were one off images.
Willliam Henry Fox
Talbot (1800–1877)
British scientist,
inventor and
photography pioneer
who invented the
salted paper and
calotype processes
Talbot invented the
first process for
creating reasonably
light-fast and
permanent
photographs that was
made available to the
public
Nelson's Column under
construction - 1844
Camera Obscura
Optical device that led
to photography and
the photographic
camera
Annotations:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_obscura
The device consists of a box or room with a hole in one side. Light from an external scene passes through the hole and strikes a surface inside, where it is reproduced, inverted (thus upside-down), but with color and perspective preserved. The image can be projected onto paper, and can then be traced to produce a highly accurate representation
The
Wet-Collodion
Process - 1851
1848 – Edmond
Becquerel makes the
first full-color
photographs, but they
are only laboratory
curiosities
French photographer
and painter - known for
his photographs of
automobile races, planes
and Parisian fashion
female models
Edward Steichen
(1879-1973)
Brooklyn Bridge. (1903)
Luxembourgish
American
photographer,
painter, and art
gallery and
museum curator
Robert
Demachy
(1859–1936)
'Speed' (1904)
French
Pictorial
photographer
known for his
intensely
manipulated
prints that
display a
distinct
painterly
quality.
1900 - Kodak introduced
the "Brownie" camera, a
very inexpensive
user-reloadable
point-and-shoot box
camera
1907 – The Autochrome
plate is introduced and
becomes the first
commercially successful
color photography
product
WW! 1914-1918
1917 - The
Russian
Revolution
and
communism
Alvin Langdon Coburn
(1882 - 1966)
Ezra Pound (1917)
Photographer who became a key
figure in the development of
American pictorialism. He became
the first key photographer to
emphasize the visual potential of
elevated viewpoints and later made
some of the first completely
abstract photographs.