Henri Le Secq

Artist of Paris
Henri Le Secq
1851

Henri Le Secq was a French painter who learned photography and the wax paper negative process from his friend Gustave Le Gray. The wax paper process produced a negative with a thin coat of wax to make it smooth and giving the photographer the option to make as many prints of one photo as he chose.
In 1851 Le Secq was one of the founding members of the first photographic organizations of the world, the Societe Heliographique. Around the same time he and five other photographers were sent throughout France to document arcitectual monuments, mostly cathedrals, with photographs. He used cameras capable of producing large format pictures in the size of 51cm by 74cm to capture his work.
Henri gave up photography sometime after 1856 but he always believed photography was a tool for the painter and would use photographs to prepare for paintings. Sometime around 1870 he feared his photographs were starting to fade and so he began reprinting his famous photos in cyanotype to preserve them.
I find it interesting how a painter and sculptor who used photography as prep work for his art could take such amazing pictures of French architect and just abruptly give it up and go back to painting. In just a few short years he left his mark on the world with his photographs and made sure to preserve them even years later. He was a true artist in my optinion.



Thanks!!!
Angi

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and
leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

John Thomson

Title: A Pagoda on an Island in the Estuary if the Min River

Artist: Thomson, John

Medium: n/a

Year: 1870-71



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John was one of the first photographers to document the people, landscapes, and the artifacts of the eastern culture traveling to the Far East. He became a High Society in Mayfair in 1881. Thomson inspired by Henri Mouhot’s embarked on his major photographic expeditions the first of many. John Thomson was a very talented photographer in many different areas. With his legacy of a outstanding quality and breadth of coverage. In some of his work he was seem as a photojournalism of the people in the streets of London. Photographs with words made him a innovator with this combination.







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I really enjoyed John’s Landscaping and Architectural photography the most of what I saw when doing my research. These photos just seem so natural and not set up to look that way. They are the way he is seeing them with his own eyes. The ones with people in the outdoor scenes are just like he took them without the people knowing he was. In the photos I like the best of John Thomson are these ones that are without the people even caring if they are in the photo they are doing what they doing normally. The landscaping ones look so unique but not set up. John has a wide variety of different specialty scenes that he is very great at taking photographs.







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John Thomson

John Thomson
Scottish Photographer
1837-1921
　
　
　
John Thomson traveled 5,000 miles with his wooden camera and fragile glass plates to reveal a world most people had never seen. His photographs of Asian Countries included, Cambodia, China, Thailand, and Taiwan. During his time there he brought back all these different cultures with his photographs. 700 of his original glass negatives are now in display at the Wellcome Library in London.
The reason I chose John Thomson was because of his travel to Asia. What really got my attention was when he traveled to Cambodia, and was the first to photograph the temples of Angkor. This summer I went to visit Cambodia with my family and had the opportunity to visit Angkor Wat.
　
　
　
　
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Clarence White

Title: Morning
Artist: Clarence White
Medium: Photogravure print
Year: 1908

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Clarence White was a photographer and a founding member of the Photo-Secession movement. During his lifetime he was widely recognized as a master of the art form for his consummate sentimental, pictorial portraits and for his excellence as a teacher of photography. Near the end of his career he founded the Clarence H. White School of Photography, which produced many of the best-known photographers of the 20th century including, Paul Outerbridge, Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange and, Ralph Steiner.


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His portraits and landscapes show a particular interest in chiaroscuro. None of his pictures have heavy shadows or dark tones; he specialized in light, delicate pictures. White was one of the photographers promoted by Stieglitz as the 'Photo-Secession', exhibiting his work in their exhibitions and publishing it in Camera Work - including a whole issue in 1908. His pictures are characterized by his use of light, often creating a virtual glow from the highlights. He experimented widely with printing processes, including platinum and gum dichromate.


Name (please only include if it is ok to publish on blog): Rachel Desalegne

Anna Atkins

Title: Cyantype photogram

Artist: Anna Atkins

Medium: cyantype photograms

Year: 1850



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I chose to write my report on Anna because she is a women and I feel that it would have been harder for a women to have been taken seriously in a man environment .Anna’s maiden name was Children, she was born on March 16, 1799 and died on June 9, 1871.Anna’s father taught her to be independent because he had to raise her, because her mother died before she was 1 year due to complications of child birth. Anna studied botany she had a great love for plants. Anna married in 1825 to John Atkins and he helped her to travel and see the world and with doing this it helped her to develop her love for photography. Anna combined both her love of botany and photography by developing the cyantype photograms. Anna published a book illustrating photographic images some people say she was the first person to create a photograph. 1850 Anna produced three presentations album of cyantype photograms.





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I feel that she was inspiring to all women and young girls to go after your dreams and to not be afraid to experiment with new ideas. Anna had a rough start in life by having her mother die at such a young age .The pictures them self were so new and innovative . Most People would have taken photo’s of family members or places that they had traveled to, but she chose to take them of plants.







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The Clarence White School of Photography

Title: Study of a Dancer

Artist: Clarence H. White and Doris Ulmann

Medium: Photograph

Year: 1910



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The Clarence H. White School of Photography, which produced many of the best-known photographers of the Twentieth century including Margaret Bourke-White, Ralph Steiner, Dorothea Lange, and Paul Outerbridge, was founded in 1914. Clarence White, who also colaberated with Alfred Steiglitz to co-found the Photo-Secession, an elite group dedicated to furthering photography as an art form, Founded the school and became one of the first instructors at the school.







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The White School was the first in America to teach photography as an art form and to integrate design into its curriculum. The school was dedicated to imbuing the craft of photography with the values and principles of art. The curriculum emphasized pictorial construction based on pattern and brought abstract design into photography.





Name: Joe Ulwelling

Clarence White

Title: Ring Toss
Artist: Clarence White
Medium:
Year: 1899

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Clarence is an American photographer, he was born on April 8, 1871. He started off as a painter until his teen years and that's when he started to photograph. Clarence is significant to the history of photography because he founded the Clarence H. White School for Photography. Clarence also became a teacher and taught photography at Columbia University.


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I liked how Clarence quit his accounting job, so he can do what he loved and that was photography. The picture I choose was three little girls playing ring toss and I think this picture is interesting because it shows what kids did for fun back in the 1800s. The picture also shows what kids wore back in those days to.



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Pinhole Photography

Title: The Massive National Archives
Artist: Scott Speck
Medium: Unknown
Year: Unknown

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A pinhole camera is a box, with a tiny hole at one end and film or photographic paper at the other. Pinhole photography is lensless photography. A tiny hole replaces the lens. Light passes through the hole; an image is formed in the camera. Pinhole cameras are used for fun, for art, and for science. Some images that you take with a pinhole camera can't be produced by a regular camera.


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I think it is interesting that you can create this pinhole camera yourself and that you can take pictures from it that you wouldn't be able to take from a regular film camera and the picture turn out the same. I think the pinhole camera is very creative. I think that it's interesting that this camera can be made out of sea shells or even and oatmeal box. How cool is that?


Name (please only include if it is ok to publish on blog):Katlin

Frank Jay Haynes

Title: Lower falls of the Yellowstone seen from Red Rock
Artist: Frank Jay Haynes
Medium:
Year: 1887

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Frank Jay Haynes known as F. Jay or the Professor, to almost all that knew him. He was a professional photographer, publisher and entrepreneur from Minnesota who played a major role in documenting through photographs, the settlement and early history of the great Northwest. He became both the official photographer of the Northern Pacific Railway and of Yellowstone National Park as well as operating early transportation concessions in the park. His photographs were widely published in articles, journals, and books and turned into stereographs and postcards in the late 19th and early 20th century.

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What's interesting about his work is that he captures the beauty of Yellowstone Park. The thing I like about him is that he got to travel and do the thing he likes to do, taking pictures. The detail in the picture and the sharpness of the photograph is unbelievable awesome. The picture itself is amazing and beautiful.



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Henri Le Secq

Title: Windmills

Artist: Henri Le Secq

Medium: n/a

Year: ca. 1850



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When the French Government made the Daguerreotype process free to the world was very fast at making this work for them in using photography. The government first actions were to conduct a survey of monuments and buildings of architectural significance. Henri Le Sescq was one of the photographers selected to do this.

Le Secq's photographs include reveals him to have been an artist of considerable delicacy.

In the 1850s the French government commissioned several photographers to document historical buildings. Working with cameras making photographs as large as 20 by 29 inches (51 by 74 cm), Henri Le Secq produced remarkable calotypes of the cathedrals of Notre-Dame (Paris), Chartres, and Amiens, as well as other structures.

By 1851 Le Secq was considered one of the best architectural photographers in France and was a founder of the Société Héliographique.





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The Windmill photography I picked one of Henri Le Secq was not one of his most famous ones. It still to me shows how he viewed these buildings at a unique point of view. This one from the back to show how all the things that are hidden in the back are still important and make a picture look truly put together. This shows the environment that it is built in and tries to show what these windmill are use for. Here at this point of view also it shows how big the panels are that the wind has to move to make them work. I really like the way he takes the imperfections and makes them into an amazing picture.







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Henry Peach Robinson

Title: Fading Away
Artist: Henry Peach Robinson
Medium: N/A
Year: 1858

Give a brief description of the movement, photographer, or term you researched. How are they significant to the history of photography (50-75 words)? Henry Peach Robinson was an English Pictorialist who furthered Oscar Gustave Rejilander. At that time photography had major limits imposed on it by technology and equipment. To create an accurate portrayal of the subject Robinson focused most of his time on combination printing. Here multiple negatives would be spliced together to create a more realistic picture. This is most evident in his work when he includes both a sky and subject into one picture.



Write a short personal reaction to the movement, photographer or term you researched. What is interesting or not interesting about the work (50 – 75 words). Robinson's most famous work, Fading Away, was a combination of five different negatives. Various critics chastised his work stating that photography, unlike painting, was not an art. Emerson, one of his critics, stated that his work was "inane, flat, and vapid." During his lifetime Robinson pushed for the acceptance of photography as an art form. He was a supporter of the Photographic Convention of the United Kingdom and president of the Royal Photographic Society. He stated in an article that "any dodge, trick, and conjuration of any kind is open to the photographers's use." Additionally he added, "A great deal can be done and very beautiful picots made, by a mixture of the real and artificial in a picture."




Name (please only include if it is ok to publish on blog): Blaine Wm. Anderson

Edweard Muybridge

Title:
Artist:Edweard muybridge
Medium:
Year:1878
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Edweard Muybridge was a vary important photographer for his time he gained worldwide fame by taking photographs of animal and human in motion.
There was an argument about if all four horse hooves were off the ground at the same time in a gallop or not. Edweard Muybridge used photos by using 12 cameras at the same time to capture the images . He proved that the horses hooves at a time were all off the ground witch gave him even ganed him more publicity.
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What I got from Edweard Muybridge is he did a lot of experimenting with photography not just with one camera but multiple cameras and as photographers (if I can call my self that)we need to do more experimenting with our images so maybe we as photographers may be known world wide as a pioneer in photograpy.
Name (please only include if it is ok to publish on blog):Jeremy

Title: An advertisement for the Photo-Secession
Artist: Edward Steichen

Medium: Unavailable

Year: 1906



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The Photo-Secession was a movement in the early 20th century that promoted photography. The movement helped people become more aware of what photography can do and raise standards of art photography. It changed the way people looked at photography since all they have seen was pictures of Royal Photographic Society. There was some controversy about what pictures to display and what was appropriate. The differences got pushed aside and they were allowed to display what they wanted, and proved a point all at the same time.





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My reaction to this movement is very positive. I believe that photography is a way of art and art is to be expressed however someone feels it should. The movement proved that photography doesn't just go one way, but it can range from a million different images. I also think that it's awesome because they didn't even mean to change the way people thought of photography, but they did.





Name (please only include if it is ok to publish on blog): Haley

Arnold Genthe

Title: San Francisco Earthquake
Artist: Arnold Genthe
Medium: Color Photography
Year: 1895

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Arnold Genthe moved to San Francisco from Berlin Russia and was very important in history because he was the last person to take photographs of San Francisco before a earthquake destroyed a large percent of the city. If it wasn't for him, all that history would have never been seen again.



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Arnold Genthe was not very popular at all when he lived in San Francisco. He would take pictures of people by hiding his camera and this created a revolt against him. The people living there simply just didn't want to have their pictures taken but Arnold continued to do so and made history because of it.



Name (please only include if it is ok to publish on blog): David Mozina

Gustav LeGray

Title:

Artist: GUSTAVE LE GRAY

Medium: albumen print

Year: 1856



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Combination Printing is the technique of combining two (or more) differently exposed images into one finished image, first suggested by Hippolyte Bayard. By combining the images, the photographer could correctly expose all parts of the image, even though the dynamic range of the film was not high enough to do so. This was often used for showing both the sky and the land, but could be used for detail in shadows, or anywhere that there is light and dark.







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Combination Printing is interesting because of the controversy over it when it first appeared; Many felt it destroyed the value of photography because it was no longer the picture exactly as taken, but rather 'a lie or untruth.' Combination printing is also interesting because in many ways, it is the same as HDR photography today; the photographer takes a series of photographs varying the exposure, then is able to show detail in all parts of the photo, both light and dark.









Name (please only include if it is ok to publish on blog): Andrew Benson

Kinetoscope

Title: W. K. L. Dickson's Kinetoscope

Artist: Poyej

Medium: Schematic drawing

Year: Mid 1890's



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The Kinetoscope is an early motion picture exhibition device. First described in conceptual terms by U.S. inventor Thomas Edison in 1888, it was largely developed by his employee William Kennedy Laurie Dickson between 1889 and 1892. On May 20, 1891, the first public demonstration of a prototype Kinetoscope was given. A little movie, approximately three seconds long, now referred to as Dickson Greeting, saw a man who bowed and smiled and waved its hands and took off its hat with the most perfect naturalness and grace. The man was Dickson. On April 14, 1894, a public Kinetoscope parlor was opened in New York City, the first commercial motion picture house. The venue had ten machines, set up in parallel rows of five, each showing a different movie. For 25 cents a viewer could see all the films in either row, half a dollar gave access to the entire bill.





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Though the kinetoscope was very important to the development of moving pictures, the most interesting thing to me was the positioning and claims of different groups of inventors to fight for patent rights and to be first to show the device. Also, it was interesting to note that almost immediately after it debuted as a moving picture device, a San Francisco exhibitor was arrested for a Kinetoscope operation "alleged to be indecent."





Name: Joe Ulwelling

Hill and Adamson

Title: Unknown
Artist: David Hill and Robert Adamson
Medium: Unknown
Year: 1843
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Lady Elizabeth Eastlake was always fond of drawing since she was young and continued to study art until her twenties. In 1857 she would publish an essay on the relationship between art and photography, showing she was knowledgeable about the new and mysterious art and discussing its strengths and weaknesses. Elizabeth married Sir Charles Eastlake president of the Royal Academy, Director of the National Gallery, and first President of the Royal Photographic Society. She became an author and critic and in 1857 she published groundbreaking article photography one of the first histories of the medium that also championed photography as a fine art.


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I think that is very interesting that she didn't marry until she was fourty and that the traveled and did their work. I also am interested in how since a young age she has loved drawing and then she decided to study art until her twenties. I like how she combined writing and critic and how she published a groundbreaking article in photography as one of the first histories of the medium, that championed photography as an art. I was very interested in that and how she became who she is today.



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Lady Elizabeth Eastlake

Title:

Artist: Lady Elizabeth Eastlake

Medium:

Year: 17 November 1809 – 2 October 1893



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Lady Elizabeth was an author, art critic and art historian. She is considered a pioneer of female journalism and was the first woman to write on a regular basis to Quarterly Review. From a very young age she demonstrated interest in drawing and later on went to write about the relationship between art and photography. At the age of 40 married painter, Sir Charles Eastlake whom later became one of the first presidents of the London Photographic Society. Elizabeth wrote about the importance of photography as communication. She was very interested on German art history and was also attracted to Italian Art.



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I think it's awesome that she is considered one of the first female journalists. I liked that she was invited to write for the Quarterly Review and was not afraid to be a critic in the art world. I hope someday I am able to travel over Europe and other countries like she did and get the chance to visit some fine art galleries.







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Claudia Fullerton

Oscar Gustave Rejlander

Title: Hard Times

Artist: Oscar Gustave Rejlander

Medium: albumen print 13.3 x 19.6 cm.

Year: 1860



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Rejlander undertook many experiments to perfect his photography, including combination printing from around 1853, which it is possible he may have invented. He moved his studio to Malden Road, London around 1862 and further experimented with double exposure, photomontage, and photographic manipulation and retouching. He became a leading expert in photographic techniques, lecturing and publishing widely, and sold portfolios of work through bookshops and art dealers. He also found subject-matter in London, photographing homeless London street children to produce popular 'social-protest' pictures such as "Poor Joe" and "Homeless". His Charlotte Baker series remains notorious along with his best-known allegorical work, The Two Ways of Life. Rejlander's ideas and techniques were taken up by other photographers and this, to some extent, justifies labeling him as the father of art photography.



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A number of his pictures were bought by Prince Albert. However, Rejlander remained in poverty. In 1859 he wrote: "I am tired of photography-for-the-public, particularly composite photographs, for there can be no gain and there is no honour, only cavil and misrepresentation." He eventually returned to painting, but to little gain, and died in poverty. After reading this about Oscar I have the most upmost respect for the man. He wasn't into photography for the publicity but more for the meaning of the photos he took.



Name (please only include if it is ok to publish on blog): Rachel Desalegne

Kodak

Title: Kodak Logo History

Artist: NA

Medium: NA

Year: NA



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Kodak, the now world wide corporation, was started in the state of New York by a man named George Eastman. It was originally called the Eastman Dry Plate Company, but with the help a fellow photographer, David Houston, the name was changed. They wanted a name that was short, could be mispronounced, and would not be associated with anything but it’s self: Kodak. They have innovated such ideas as KodaCrome film, which is a color reversal film, but unfortunately, is no longer produced today.









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I found it interesting that this well known company was started here in the United States over a hundred years ago, and is still going strong. Even though the company has posted recent losses in revenue, they are still a major competitor in digital photography and digital printing. Over the tenure of their company, they have merged and bought out several smaller companies along the way including Scitex Digital Printing, ENCAD Inc, among others. Overall, to me, it is impressive to see a company created a just a one American man over a hundred years ago, to become a large corporation known world wide today







Name (please only include if it is ok to publish on blog): Brandon Johnson

Stereo Photography

(Stereoscope)

Title: Danny in Stero

Artist: Travis Shinn

Medium:

Year: 2007

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Steroscopes refers to two pictures, viewed at the same time. The two photos are nearly identical, but just slightly differnt. How ever, when the two photos are viewed at the same time, typiucally through a stero-lense, the two images apear to make one solid picture, usually creating an appearane of dept of view. Steroscopes were the first use of a '3D' image. Even in modern american film, the use of 3D is used commonly, especially in children's movies.

　

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I persoannly love steroscopes, and '3D' movies that are being produced today. I remember using the Steroscope toy as a child, view photos of the Bambi, and other classic Disney films. In the photo is a member of modern rock band Tool. I picked the photo because it shows that sterogram are still being used today. Altough the images are better viewed with the glasses, it still shows a great feel of dept of field. With the glasses, pictures like these have a sense to 'pop', unlike most normal photo graphs.

　

　

　

　

Name (please only include if it is ok to publish on blog): Brandon Johnson

John Thomson

Title: Street Life in London

Artist: John Thomson

Medium:

Year: 1877/78

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British photographer John Thomson was one of the first to photograph a few different people, places, and things around the world in the 19th century. A few things he was able to be the first to take pictures were some of the natives around Singapore, the Ancient city of Angkor and its jungle-clad temples, and the King of Siam. There wasn't much that he didn't photograph. He was able to capture a picture of the common taking of tea in Hong Kong. He photographed villagers as well as important rulers, landscapes, city streets, machine guns, brides, and the list continues! For about ten years he set up base in Singapore, where is where he did much of his photography. Thomson returned to Britain with his photographs and published them and lectured for a year. His camera and lectures brought the Far East to life for Britain. It was a world unlike anything they had ever known. In 1870, Thomson made a trip to Foochow, a port on the river min. He had made a huge pictorial record of the landscape, architecture and people in the area. Using these photos, he was able to publish a limited edition book called "Foochow and the River Min" in 1873. Forty-six copies have been believed to be printed.

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What's interesting to me about his work is that he was able to have such a huge part in so many different things in the world of photography. There's very little now-a-days that a photographer can say that they were the first to be a part of. At least, I think so.. I also found out that there was an auction on his book "Foochow and the River Min." The book was only expected to bring in about $50,000 to $70,000; but instead, sold for $180,000. That's a lot of money for a book..

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Wet Plate Process

Title: Wet Plate Process

Artist: Julia Margaret

Medium: Glass negatives

Year: 1850s through 1880s


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The wet plane process was invented in 1851. It marked an end to using eggs whites because it reduced exposure time, was grainless and colorless, and allowed for the first time a high quality duplication process or negative. It produced a very detailed print and made it easier to reproduce the prints. This was the way prints were taken for nearly 30 years. The process required a skilled hand and photographers many times used a portable dark room.




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The exposure would often take 15 to 30 seconds. Since people had to stay still for that long photographers usually requested a somber face. Some used special props, tables, and iron clamps in the studio to keep the person still. In the field many photographers wanted their clients to lean against a pole or other solid object in order to produce a non-blurry picture.




Name (please only include if it is ok to publish on blog): Blaine Wm. Anderson

Mathew Brady

Title: On the Antietam Battlefield

Artist: Matthew Brady

Medium:

Year: 1862



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Matthew Brady is an American photographer, best known for documenting the Civil War. By bring his photographic studio right to the battlefield is what earned his place in history. Among his first pictures captured where at the Battle of Antietam. Also his is credited with being the father of photojournalism.



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The thing I find interesting about Matthew Brady's pictures is that he captured the destruction of war very well, the pictures of dead corps, wounded men, and stills of the leaders of both Union and Confederates sides. The expressions he captures on the soldiers faces, and the destruction to towns and cities.





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Anna Atkins

Title: Photographer
Artist: Anna Atkins (1799-1871)
Medium: Photography
Year:
Anna Atkins was one of the earliest women photographers, some argued she was the first. As a botanist she used photography to record specimens. Although she had a camera she used cyanotype process for her work simular to a blue print.
In 1839 Anna Atkins was one of the few female scientist to become a member of the Botanical Society of London. In October 1843 she became the first person to print and publish a book. British Algae: Cyanotype Impression. This book contained 424 illustrated pictures. Many of Anna Atkins drawing are in the British Museum today.
　
　
　
　
Anna's work grabbed my attention because of being the first female photographer. Also her blue and white cyanotype drawings to be in such details for the 1800s.
I learned the blue print was invented in the 1800s.
　
Name (please only include if it is ok to publish on blog): Joe Rhodes

Thomas Annan

Title: Glasgow archive

Artist: Thomas Annan

Medium: photogravure

Year:1872



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Thomas Annan was born in 1829 in Dairsie, Fife. He had and apprenticeship with a lithographer in Cupar, but then he moved to Glasgow. In 1857 Thomas established the photogravure process. While he was in Glasgow he was the first person to take photographs of the poor housing conditions that poor people had. He was then hired by the Glasgow City Improvement Trust to take pictures of the slum areas of Glasgow.





Write a short personal reaction to the movement, photographer or term you researched. What is interesting or not interesting about the work (50 – 75 words).

The thing I thought was interesting is how he was the first person to start taking pictures of slum areas. I liked how he did that because then people knew how bad housing was in that area. The picture that I saw made me sad because I can’t see how people can live in those conditions.







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Edward Curtis

Title: Canyon De Chelley
Artist: Edward S. Curtis

Medium: Unknown

Year: 1904



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The Canyon De Chelly Monument was established in northeastern Arizona on April 1, 1931. It is in the boundries of the Navajo Nation and preserves ruins of the tribes that lived in that area. It is one of the most unique parks because it consists only of Navajo Tribal Land which is still owned by them. They are significant to the history of photography because of how many different photographers go there to get pictures.





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I had no idea that this even exists. I knew that there was plenty of land owned by the Indian tribes, but not like this. They don't charge people to come in and see their land, and they take very good care of it. I think the way that this photographer shot this is really nice. It gives us an idea of how big it really is because of the people on horses. I love the lighting of this picture as well, there are so many different shadows that make it really interesting.







Name (please only include if it is ok to publish on blog): Haley

Dr. Hugh Welch Diamond

Title: Photographic Society
Artist: Dr. Hugh Welch Diamond
 
Medium: Calotypes
Year: 1809-1886
 
Give a brief description of the movement, photographer, or term you researched. How are they significant to the history of photography (50-75 words)?
 
Dr. Hugh Welch Diamond was one of the first finders of the Photographic Society and was one of the first doctors to use photography to help treat mental disorders. He would take pictures of these patients and said that they helped the patient but there was no evidence that proved he was right.
 
 
 
 
Write a short personal reaction to the movement, photographer or term you researched. What is interesting or not interesting about the work (50 – 75 words).
 
Even though there was no proof that Diamond's work was helping the patients at all, it later turned into better methods such as X-rays. His pictures of the patients are really haunting and yet very interesting at the same time. He is also known for making Photography popular during that time era.
 
 
Name (please only include if it is ok to publish on blog): David Mozina

Anna Atkins

Title:
Artist:  Anna Atkins
Medium:  Cyanotype
Year:  1843
 
Give a brief description of the movement, photographer, or term you researched. How are they significant to the history of photography (50-75 words)?
 
Anna Atkins was raised by her father, John G Children, a scientist who taught her much about science, leading her to a hobby of botany.  Later, a friend introduced her to photogenic drawing where objects are placed over a light sensitized paper, then exposed to the sun; similar to a photogram.  Anna created images of seaweed which she published in 'Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions,' the first book illustrated with photographic images
 
 
Write a short personal reaction to the movement, photographer or term you researched. What is interesting or not interesting about the work (50 – 75 words).
 
 
Anna Atkins' work is interesting because it is some of the first photographic work, and I find it especially interesting because of the scientific content of her works.  They are also some of the most interesting photographs from the time period as they are quite detailed compared to the vast majority of old pictures. 
 
 
 
Name (please only include if it is ok to publish on blog): Andrew Benson

Wet Plate Collodion Process

Title: Wet Plate Process- Sample Image
Artist: Michael Shindler
Medium: Wet Plate Process
Year: 1851-present day
 
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            Frederick Scott Archer invented the Wet Plate Collodion Process in 1851. This is one of the first photographic processes invented. The process consists of either black or clear glass. First, the glass is cut to 11 by 14 plates. Next, the glass is "deburred" or sanded at the edges so that nobody cuts their hands on the sharp edges. After that, the glass plate is cleaned. It must be clean so that the emulsion or collodion won't peel away from the plate. The next step is called "flowing" the plate. Here, the collodion is actually poured onto the plate, and spread over the entire piece. Then, the plate must be sensitized once the collodion has set, or dried. It is put in silver nitrate for 3-4 min. After all of this preparation is complete, the plate is exposed, sometimes only for seconds, other times many minutes depending on lighting. When developing the plate, it usually only takes about 15 seconds. It is possible to over and under develop a plate. The glass plate is then fixed with potassium cyanide. The image will appear right on the glass.
            This process is somewhat of a long lost art. It is seldom used in the present day, although those who do still use this process really take it seriously.
 
 
 
Write a short personal reaction to the movement, photographer or term you researched. What is interesting or not interesting about the work (50 – 75 words).
 
            I researched a present-day photographer who still uses the process of Wet Plate Collodion. It was really interesting. I thought it was really neat how the negative and the print are all on one sheet of glass. If I ever get the chance to try the process, I would not pass it up. The images are all really sharp and I really liked the way the there isn't a true white in his images, but I think this makes them more compelling overall.
 
 
 Name (please only include if it is ok to publish on blog): Shannon Benson

John Plumbe

Give a brief description of the movement, photographer, or term you researched. How are they significant to the history of photography (50-75 words)?
 
John Plumbe, Jr was an entrepreneurial photographer. He was also an early advocate of American transcontinental railroad in the mid 19th century. He established a franchise of photography studios in the 1840's in the U.S.  He created a lithographic process for reproducing photographic images called "plumbeotype"
 
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I like that he created a lithographic process for reproducing photographic images. Most of his images I see on the site are portraits of people which is ok but I like pictures of nothing that are just interesting to look at more.
 
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Albumen Print

Title: Italian Venice
Artist: unknown
Medium: silver chloride printing-out paper is coated with salted egg white and sensitized with silver nitrate
Year: 1850
 
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            Silver chloride printing-out paper is coated with salted egg white and sensitized with silver nitrate. Albumenized paper was made from 1855, and sold ready sensitized after 1872. Albumen prints present a fine, warm-brown hued image on a thin paper base, toning with gold chloride gives an aubergine-black image color and prevents the paper from ruining and from residual sulphur compounds in the egg-white coating and is also called albumen silver print. Blanquart Évrard invented the paper.
 
 
Write a short personal reaction to the movement, photographer or term you researched. What is interesting or not interesting about the work (50 – 75 words).
Albumenized paper is made in a process that starts with 100% cotton and is pressed and sealed into paper. The process in making in the photo paper is so amazing to me because it’s so random. Almost like it could have been a mistake to know that putting cotton  in egg white would make a photo paper.
 
 
 
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Death of a Rebel Sharpshooter

 Title: Confederate Dead at Devil's Den Gettysburg
Artist: Alexander Gardner
Medium: 1 negative: glass, wet collodion
Year: June- July 1863
 
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Gardner was born in Scotland in 1821, and moved to New York in 1856.  He decided to stay in New York for a while because a lot of those who were close to him were either near death or dying of tuberculosis.  Matthew Brady got him interested in photography, and so later Gardner moved to Washington D.C. to work at Brady's gallery there.  This sparked his interest even more, and at the time was surrounded by the political side of the war, thus being in Washington D.C.  His photograph that I've researched was taken during Gettysburg, along with many of his other photographs.  He was fascinated with war, and so many of his pictures reflect that.
 
 
 
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My reaction to this picture was that it doesn't interest me very much, although Gardner's background was very interesting. I find his work beautiful, but it just isn't something that I would find myself wanting to take pictures of.  It is very important that we know what happened during that war, and I believe that a picture is worth a thousand words especially this one.
 
 
Name (please only include if it is ok to publish on blog): Haley

Andre Disderi

Title: Caricature of the artist
Artist: André Disdéri
Medium: daguerreotypist
Year: 1861
 
Give a brief description of the movement, photographer, or term you researched. How are they significant to the history of photography (50-75 words)?
            Andre Disderi is a French photographer who was born in 1819.  He also created the carte de visite also known as the “visiting card.”  Also, he invented the twin-lens reflex camera.  The visiting cards were made with four lenses and a sliding plate holder which is called the stereoscopic camera.  Disderi died in 1889 in a mentally ill facility called Hôpital Ste. Anne in Paris.
 
Write a short personal reaction to the movement, photographer or term you researched. What is interesting or not interesting about the work (50 – 75 words).
            The picture I choose is him and also by him, it’s called the Caricature of the artist.  One of the things that I thought was interesting is it kind of looks like a picture you would find in a comic book because he looks like a cartoon in the picture because he is bigger than everyone else and like the comics that have to do with Obama, he also has a big head.  I also like how the people look amazed or at least I think they look amazed. 
 
 
 
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Mungo Ponton

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He is significant to history of photography because he was the first to create a method of permanent photography. Before his invention, Photographers had to take pictures that didn't finish for about ten minutes. When taking a picture, the people in front of the camera couldn't do any movements at all and so they had to close their eyes to make sure they wouldn't blink. Without Mungo, it would have taken a lot longer to create the method.
 
 
Write a short personal reaction to the movement, photographer or term you researched. What is interesting or not interesting about the work (50 – 75 words).
 
It is interesting to me because when someone takes a picture with a camera and don't understand how much work has gone into it. It would be funny to see if we would be using different technology today if he hadn't discovered the method of using sodium dichromate to make a permanent picture.
 
 
 
Name (please only include if it is ok to publish on blog): David Mozina

Alexander Gardner

Title: Alexander Gardner (1821-1882), US American photographer    
Artist: Unknown
Medium:
Year: 1860
 
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Alexander was born in Scotland in 1821. He was born Oct 17th 1821 and died in Dec 10th 1882. He was a Scottish photographer that moved to the United States in 1856 when he developed his profession. He is best known for taking pictures of the civil war and of the American president Abraham Lincoln and the execution of the conspirators to Lincolns Assassination.
 
 
Write a short personal reaction to the movement, photographer or term you researched. What is interesting or not interesting about the work (50 – 75 words).
 
 
I think it's interesting how he mostly photographed the civil war and Abraham Lincoln. He took really good shots but my question is why he shot a lot of pictures of Abraham Lincoln and of dead people during the civil war. I don't think it's interesting that he shot photographs of a lot of dead people just laying there.
 
 
Name (please only include if it is ok to publish on blog):Katlin Sievers

Sprint Chemistry MSDS Information - Lori Schrafel

1. What are some of the health and safety concerns with using Sprint's Standard Film Developer? What should you do if you get chemistry on your eyes or skin or ingest the chemistry?

Pregnant women should consult their doctors for health risks due to darkroom chemicals. Inhalation, eyes, ingestion, and skin. It also causes allergies due to sulfates. If chemicals get in the eyes wash eyes out with water, wash skin with soap and water, if ingested give 3-4 glasses of water and do not induce vomiting seek medical help. If inhaled remove them to fresh air.

2. What are some of the health and safety concerns with using Sprint's Quick Silver Print Developer? What should you do if you get chemistry on your eyes or skin or ingest the chemistry?

Inhalation, eyes, ingestion, and skin. For inhalation remove to fresh air, if having trouble breathing give oxygen, call for emergency medical help. If it gets in eyes wash eyes out for 15 minutes with water and hold eye open and remove contacts. If ingested give 3-4 glasses of water and do not induce vomiting. If chemicals get on skin wash with soap and water for several minutes.

3. What are some of the health and safety concerns with using Sprint's Block Stop Bath? What should you do if you get chemistry on your eyes or skin or ingest the chemistry?

Inhalation, eyes, skin contact, ingestion. For inhalation take person to fresh air give an oxygen mask when possible because could cause life-threatening asthma. Wash eyes thoroughly for several minutes and remove contacts. If ingested drink 3-4 glasses of water do not induce vomiting and seek emergency medical help. If skin becomes exposed wash with soap and water for several minutes.

4. What are some of the health and safety concerns with using Sprint's Record Speed Fix? What should you do if you get chemistry on your eyes or skin or ingest the chemistry?

Concerns are inhalation, eye exposure, skin contact, and ingestion. Special concerns are that it is a carcinogen. If ingested could cause kidney damage and cause life-threatening asthma. If inhaled get to fresh air immediately. If chemical gets in eyes wash for several minutes, remove contacts, and hold eye open. If ingested drink 3-4 glasses of water and do not induce vomiting and call EMS as soon as possible. Wash skin for several minutes with soap and water.

5. What are some of the health and safety concerns with using Sprint's Archive Fix Remover? What should you do if you get chemistry on your eyes or skin or ingest the chemistry?

Inhalation, skin, eye, ingestion. Treatments for these would be wash skin thoroughly, rinse eyes immediately for several minutes remove contacts and hold eye open. Drink 3-4 glasses of water and do not induce vomiting if ingested. Get to fresh air, give oxygen, and call EMS if inhaled. Other concerns are kidney damage, toxic to embryos, and causes life-threatening asthma. This is a carcinogen.

6. Where are the material safety data sheets located in our darkroom?

Go into the first room to the right hanging on the right side of the cabinet in a red folder.

7. Is it ok for me to post your name on the class blog if I post your answers to these questions?

Yes

Roger Fenton

Give a brief description of the movement, photographer, or term you researched. How are they significant to the history of photography (50-75 words)?
            Roger Fenton was a pioneering British photographer. He was also one of the first war photographers. He studied law, and then decided to study painting. Several years down the road, he began to be interested in photography. He set up The Photographic Society, with himself as its founder in 1853. In 1855, he went to the Crimean War to photograph the troops. He was sent there as the first official war photographer at the insistence of Prince Albert. Fenton avoided making pictures of dead, injured, or mutilated soldiers. He was only able to take pictures of unmoving objects, or posed pictures. He also photographed landscapes. "The Valley of the Shadow of Death" was taken while under fire, and was considered to be a seminal piece of war photography.
 
 
Write a short personal reaction to the movement, photographer or term you researched. What is interesting or not interesting about the work (50 – 75 words).
            I'm usually not interested in anything that has to do with war or history, but when I saw the photograph "The Shadow of the Valley of Death", something really intrigued me. I'm not quite sure what it was, and then I read a little bit more about it, and I thought it was actually quite interesting learning about Roger Fenton. I found it interesting that in the beginning of his studies he was going to college for law, and then wound up doing something that is a ways away from law. I also have respect for the fact that he did not take pictures of dying/injured soldiers. I feel like many people back then would have taken those pictures in hopes of spreading news. I'm not really sure though. I would say that the only parts of the reading that were not interesting to me was his family life. Example : marriage, siblings, etc. Even though I'm sure that was a pretty big part of his life, but I enjoyed the photography aspect of it more.

The Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter

 Title: The Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter
Artist: Alexander Gardner
Medium:
Year: 1863

Give a brief description of the movement, photographer, or term you researched. How are they significant to the history of photography (50-75 words)?

In July of 1863, Lee's army retreated from Gettysburg leaving behind them dead and wounded soldiers along with abandoned artillery. Alexander Gardner came upon the scene of a dead sharpshooter lying in his lonely shooting barracks. I think this photograph is specifically significant to the history of photography because it really depicted the downside of the war. This photo and others depicting the war were a staple of the time and really documented a dark part of America's history.

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The first thing that really stuck out in this photograph to me was the idea that the sharpshooter died all alone and no one really knows how long he was laying there after he sustained his wounds before he died. What makes the photograph so successful was that the photographer made the sharpshooter the center of the piece and focused only on his immediate surroundings instead of elaborating more on location. The way the photograph is set up makes it almost hard to look at anything else but the soldier which really makes you think more about him and who he might have been.

Name (please only include if it is ok to publish on blog): Chellie Miller

Web Work 2

Mathew Brady

Title:  Elkhorn chair presented by Seth Kinman to President Lincoln

Artist:  Photo by Mathew Brady

Medium:  Carte de visite

Year:  1864

This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired in the United States and those countries with a copyright term of no more than the life of the author plus 100 years.

 

Give a brief description of the movement, photographer, or term you researched. How are they significant to the history of photography (50-75 words)?

 

Carte de visite:

Carte de visite is a type of small photograph usually made of an albumen print, which was a thin paper photograph mounted on a thicker paper card. The size of a carte de visite is 2? × 3½ inches mounted on a card sized 2½ × 4 inches.  It was patented in Paris, France by photographer André Adolphe Eugène Disdéri in 1854.  It was made popular in 1859 in Europe, and 1860 in the United States. The new invention was so popular it was known as "cardomania" and eventually spread throughout the world.

 

 

 

Write a short personal reaction to the movement, photographer or term you researched. What is interesting or not interesting about the work (50 – 75 words).

 

The carte de visite popularized photography by giving it an immensely growing market to the general public.  It led to many ways to use photographs including religious figures,  important people, burial cards, and even baseball cards.  There are many collections of these today, many from the civil war.

 

 

 

Name (please only include if it is ok to publish on blog):  Joe Ulwelling

 

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Hippolyte Bayard

 

Title: Self-Portrait as a Drowned Man

Artist: Hippolyte Bayard

Medium: Photography using direct positive printing

Year: 1840

 

Give a brief description of the movement, photographer, or term you researched. How are they significant to the history of photography (50-75 words)?

Hippolyte Bayard was born in 1807. He invented a photography process called direct positive printing. The process started by exposing silver chloride paper to light to turn it black. It was then soaked in potassium iodide and then exposed in the camera and then it was washed in hyposulfite. Because the paper was such low quality, the camera picture would take up to 12 minutes to properly expose. He died in 1887.

 

 

Write a short personal reaction to the movement, photographer or term you researched. What is interesting or not interesting about the work (50 – 75 words).

I like the work, self-portrait as a drowned man, because of the message it portrays. It shows an artistic way of expressing the feeling felt by Bayard in regards to the betrayal from his friend. The note on the back added to the overall message.

 

 

Name (please only include if it is ok to publish on blog): David L

Gustave Le Gray

Title: "Grande Vague, Sète" and "Beech Tree Fontainebleau"
Artist: Gustave Le Gray
Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative; 33.7 x 41.4 cm (13 1/4 x 16 5/16 in.), andAlbumen silver print 12 7/16 x 16 1/4 in. 84.XM.637.22
Year: 1857and 1956
 
Give a brief description of the movement, photographer, or term you researched. How are they significant to the history of photography (50-75 words)?
 
Gustave Le Gray has been called "The most important French photographer of the 19th century" because of his technical innovations in the still new medium of photography, his role as the teacher of other noted photographers, and the extraordinary imagination he brought to picture making". He was also the official photographer of Napoleon III. In October 1999, a Le Gray print "Beech Tree, Fontainebleau" sold for £419,500, which was a world record for most expensive single photograph ever sold at auction, to an anonymous buyer. Later that day at the same auction, however, an albumen print of "Grande Vague, Sète" ("The Great Wave, Sète") also by Le Gray was sold for a new world record price of  $840,370 to "the same anonymous buyer" who was later revealed to be Sheik Saud Al-Thani of Qatar. The record stood until May 2003.
 
Write a short personal reaction to the movement, photographer or term you researched. What is interesting or not interesting about the work (50 – 75 words).
 
Wow. I've seen some of his work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan New York but I didn't know exactly who he was at the time. After finding out who he is I am very impressed by his artwork and amused by the life he lived. He did a lot within his 54 years on earth, a lot of traveling, socialized with other important people; he just seems so free spirited.
 
 
Name (please only include if it is ok to publish on blog): Rachel Desalegne

Post-Mortem Photography

Title: Post-Mortem Portraits
Artist: Stanley Burns
Medium: Google, website: Mental Floss
Year: This image dates to c. 1890-1905

Give a brief description of the movement, photographer, or term you researched. How are they significant to the history of photography (50-75 words)?

The post-mortem movement of photography was unique in its kind during the 18th-19th century.It's significant in the history of photography because it became very popular more than any kind of picture during the Victorian Era. From there a few styles of photography came about: "Spirit photography" in which double exposures where used to make the image look theatrical or ghostly in appearance. Also staged photography where the bodies would be posed to look alive sometimes using props. Post- mortem portraits became "accepted" if you will; that family members would get extra copies of the portraits to send to relatives, wear them on their lockets and hang them in their homes.


Write a short personal reaction to the movement, photographer or term you researched. What is interesting or not interesting about the work (50 – 75 words).

Post-mortem photography caught my attention since growing up my dad worked in the morgue. He would explain to us that death is an event that is part of life just like any other and we should not be afraid of it, therefore I grew up seeing dead bodies and the smell of formaldehyde used to preserve the bodies after all the organs would be taken out. (Sorry maybe T.M.I. too much info) It also reminded me of the movie with Nicole Kidman ("The others") where there are a couple of scenes where she finds a book with post-mortem photographs. It is an interesting form of art, having lost 7 pregnancies I can understand how you would want to preserve a memory of something so special to you and your family. I wouldn't have the courage to be able to have a photograph of my diseased infants, let alone look at it without losing my sanity.


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Title: Brig in the moonlight
Artist: Gustave Le Gray
Medium:
Year: between 1856 and 1857

Give a brief description of the movement, photographer, or term you researched. How are they significant to the history of photography (50-75 words)?
Gustave le Gray was originally trained as a painter, but he then transformed into a photographer. He was not only a famous photographer he also taught photography to students. His most famous work dates from this period, 1856 to 1858, especially his seascapes. He made improvements of paper negatives, and combining printing, creating his seascapes by using one negative for the water and one negative for the sky.

Write a short personal reaction to the movement, photographer or term you researched. What is interesting or not interesting about the work (50 – 75 words).
The piece I chose to research is the "Brig in the moonlight." This picture is not a typical seascape. There's so little to focus on. The ocean is so wide and goes on forever, while the sky is full of puffy, white clouds. While all of the scenery is beautiful, my eye seems to attract to the little boat in the middle of the water, it's such a small piece of the photo, but without that boat the photo wouldn't be as interesting or even that excellent.

Name (please only include if it is ok to publish on blog): Kate Rud.