1 / 16

An Incredible Invention

An Incredible Invention. Photography: 1837-1918. Types of Photographic Images. Daguerreotypes Ambrotypes Tintypes Albumens (CDVS, cabinet cards) Real photo postcards. Daguerreotypes (1837-1860). Invented by a French chemist named Louis Daguerre

topaz
Download Presentation

An Incredible Invention

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. An Incredible Invention Photography: 1837-1918

  2. Types of Photographic Images • Daguerreotypes • Ambrotypes • Tintypes • Albumens (CDVS, cabinet cards) • Real photo postcards

  3. Daguerreotypes (1837-1860) • Invented by a French chemist named Louis Daguerre • The first photo ever taken was a street scene in Paris • The daguerreotype was made on a copper plate coated with polished silver • It took approximately 3-4 minutes for the image to be burned onto the plate (longer if the lighting was poor) • The sitter had a neck brace to keep them still • Studios had huge skylights to let in as much light as possible.

  4. Portraits of people are the most common

  5. Portraits of animals and outdoor images are rare

  6. Ambrotypes (1854-1865) • Ambrotypes were really just daguerreotypes done on glass. • They were much cheaper to produce and cheaper to make • They are really a negative image on a glass plate backed with black paint or black fabric to make them into a “positive”

  7. Why do you think the ambrotype was not popular for very long?

  8. Tintypes (1854-1900)

  9. Tintypes replaced ambrotypes and daguerreotypes because they were much more durable and cheaper to produce. • They were made on a thin plate of sheet iron coated with a thin black varnish

  10. Images on paper • Albumens, Carte de visites ( CDVs), and Cabinet Cards • A glass negative was used to produce numerous paper “positives” • The paper was coated with egg whites and other chemicals • Very popular because you could leave the photographers studio with more than one image. You could also write messages on them and give them away

  11. Do you recognize these two famous personalities both taken in cdv format?

  12. Rare cdv of a locomotive in Pennsylvania

  13. Examples of Rare Cabinet Cards

  14. Real Photo Postcards This was a gimmick that became very popular: Have a picture taken of yourself and send it off to someone you love as a postcard!

  15. Post Mortem Photography • Post mortems were a part of 19th century culture. For some, this was the only picture they may have of a loved one.

More Related