History of Photograph photos
Gustave Le Gray, Forest of Fontainebleau, 1856 Albumen silver print from glass negative • Using artistic manipuation of photo to draw certain emotions • Approaching photo in artistic way
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Talbot, Calotype negative and salted, c. 1840. • Calotype - new procedure, iodized paper, for making negatives • A scene captured by camera obscura projected onto paper coated with silver salt = securing black/white reproduction of it • Inverse images • Quickly replaced Daguerreotype because of cost
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W.H.F. Talbot, Nelson's Column under Construction, Trafalgar Square, London, April 1844 • 5 years after initial development of Calotype • intersection of religious and secular, historic and present-day • marks the beginning of a new, photographic way of seeing - idea of the picturesque
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