Early Photography
Exercise
1. What is the difference between Camera Lucida and Camera Obscura?
Camera Lucida is portable, and Camera Obscura is used in a dark room.
2.Both a daguerrotype and a calotype are a type of photograph but what differentiates them?
A daguerrotype photograph is on a sheet of metal, and the picture can rub off very easily.
3. During the renaissance, artists became increasingly interested in exploring and representing the reality of nature. An instrument called the camera obscura was used in a dark room which an inverted image was projected onto a surface. As technology developed, smaller and more controllable apparatus' were developed such as the camera Lucida.
In 1827 Joseph Niepce was successful in fixing an image of his view. Louis Daguerre worked with Niepce in is quest to fix the projected image. In 1839, Daguerre announced the invention of the Daguerrotype, a type of photograph that was printed on a metal plate. Around the same time as the invention of the Daguerrotype, an English scientist named William Henry Fox Talbot developed another type of photo named the calotype, unlike the Daguerrotype, i could be duplicated.
In the early years many photographers were concerned with documentation and continued to focus on traditional fine art themes such as landscape and portraiture. Over time this changed as photographers started to assert their own identity, separate to that of contemporary artists.
Camera Lucida is portable, and Camera Obscura is used in a dark room.
2.Both a daguerrotype and a calotype are a type of photograph but what differentiates them?
A daguerrotype photograph is on a sheet of metal, and the picture can rub off very easily.
3. During the renaissance, artists became increasingly interested in exploring and representing the reality of nature. An instrument called the camera obscura was used in a dark room which an inverted image was projected onto a surface. As technology developed, smaller and more controllable apparatus' were developed such as the camera Lucida.
In 1827 Joseph Niepce was successful in fixing an image of his view. Louis Daguerre worked with Niepce in is quest to fix the projected image. In 1839, Daguerre announced the invention of the Daguerrotype, a type of photograph that was printed on a metal plate. Around the same time as the invention of the Daguerrotype, an English scientist named William Henry Fox Talbot developed another type of photo named the calotype, unlike the Daguerrotype, i could be duplicated.
In the early years many photographers were concerned with documentation and continued to focus on traditional fine art themes such as landscape and portraiture. Over time this changed as photographers started to assert their own identity, separate to that of contemporary artists.