Early 19 th cent. photography

1. Early 19th cent. photography Pgs. 964-966

2. Find and define • Positivism • Camera obscura • Daguerreotype • Calotype • Value • Aperture

3. At your tables… • You have 5 minutes to study/quiz each other over the 6 previous vocabulary words. • We will take a pop-quiz immediately after this. Let’s test your short-term memory…

4. VALUE • VIVACIOUS • IMPASTO

5. DAGUERROTYPE • CALOTYPE • POSITIVISM

6. PHOTOGRAPHY • PARIS, FRANCE • APERTURE

7. 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 DAGUERROTYPE • POSITIVISM

8. Read pgs 964 – 966, including “technique” • 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: • Flip through the book, not on your phone. • Sit quietly and wait, not on your phone. • Go back and add an additional sentence to each paragraph. ✔

9. Early Photography • 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.

10. Daguerre, The Artist’s Studio, 1837

11. William Fox-talbot, The open door, 1843

12. Oscar rejlander, The two paths of life, 1857

14. Think! • 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.