Week five

Today the class was based on History of Photography.

• Light Writing(Sir John Herschel 1839)
• Camera Obscura (dark room) Leonardo Da Vinci 1519 pinhole camera

Enter the chemists

• Robert Boyle "silver chloride 1600`s"
• Angelo Sala "powered silver nitrate 1700`s"
• Johanu Heinrich Schulz "light not heat"
• Thomas Wedgwood "successful images,but no survival"

First Photographs

• The july 1827 Joseph Nicephore Niepe "took 8 hours to expose"
• 1829 Niepce goes into partnership with Louis Daguerra
• 1835 exposure time reduced to 3 minutes.

Snap!

• 1839 Daguerre accidentlly take first picture of a man.

Daguerreomania

• Requires no knowledge of drawing.
• Anyone may succeed and perform as well as another of the invention.

Other prophesied

• Painting will cease to exist

The problem

• No copies possible

• The Pencil of Nature by William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877). A revolutionary work in terms of the processes used to produce the images, the artistic composition of each frame is equally impressive.

Towards mass production

• 1871 Dr Richard Maddox use gelatin instead of papaer