Από τη camera obscura μέχρι σήμερα, ή γιατί η φωτογραφία είναι μια τέχνη συνεχούς επανεφεύρεσης.
Από τις τεχνικές καινοτομίες, όπως την cyanotype ( # 12 ), την έλευση του χρώματος ( # 23 ), την Polaroid ( # 84 ), τις κινούμενες εικόνες ( # 20 ) με παραδείγματα όπως το φωτορεπορτάζ ( # 66 ) και την κατασκευή ( # 93 ) σε νέες τρόπους θεώρησης του κόσμου, όπως αεροφωτογραφίες ( # 54 ) , μικρο / μακρο ( # 55 ) κλπ
IDEA # 1: THE CAMERA OBSCURA
When Christian Gobrecht illustrated the workings of a camera obscura for Abraham Rees’s The Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature (1805-22), he was careful to show how the device created an inverted image.
IDEA # 2: THE LATENT IMAGE
The latent image was coaxed from the daguerreotype plate by being exposed to mercury fumes in a so-called ‘bath’ like this one.
IDEA # 4: NEGATIVE/POSITIVE
The negative formed the basis of photography until the digital age. It is based on the reversal of dark and light tone.
IDEA # 9: THE LENS
Specially designed weights or impromptu inventions were attached to the shutter to create timed lens exposures.
IDEA # 12: CYANOTYPE
The cyanotype allowed builders and engineers to create durable and detailed drawings.
IDEA # 12: CYANOTYPE
Anna Atkins was one of the first scientists to use the cyanotype to record delicate specimens, as in Himanthalia lorea, from her 1843 book on algae.
IDEA # 13: COLLODION
Photographers who used the collodion process had to process their glass plates before and after exposure. They brought a portable darkroom and sometimes employed assistants to help.
IDEA # 27: CARTES DE VISITE
Disdéri’s multiple portraits of a ballet dancer is entitled Petipa (c. 1862), for the renowned French dance master and choreographer. Performers and public figures often had cartes de visite made in great numbers, which they either gave away or sold.
IDEA # 46: PROJECTION
In 1925, the French children’s magazine Le Petit Inventeur captured the wonder of projected images.
IDEA # 56: THE PEOPLE’S ART
For the cover of a 1929 issue of the German publication The Worker Photographer, Ernst Thormann chose a close-up of a Roma child.
IDEA # 56: THE PEOPLE’S ART
In this anonymous early Kodak snapshot from about 1888, the maker’s shadow is clearly visible on the lower left side.
IDEA # 77: THE SELF-PORTRAIT
In her 1896 Self-Portrait (as New Woman) successful Washington, D.C. photographer and business owner, Frances Benjamin Johnston, poses cross-legged, as a man might do, while holding a cigarette and a beer stein.
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