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

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

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 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

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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.