Week 2

The following week we learned about old photography.  Daguerrotypes and more, the people who made photography grow into what it is today is who we learned about.  

This photograph was done in 1850 by J.T. Zealy.  This is a Daguerrotype that is 3 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches long.  These were some of the first photographs that were called ethnographs.  People wanted to have a typology of African people.  At first the photographs were taken with their clothes on and then over time they made them take their clothes off.  These were then known as the first erotic photographs in the sense that the photographer or people who hired the photographers had other intentions for these portraits and people.

This is a portrait done by Julia Margaret Cameron of Julia Jackson in 1867.  Cameron focused on finding the true identity of women and showed allegorical lessons.  She also photographed men but preferred women.  She wanted people to look natural as they wanted to be and she would find the right position and time to take the photograph.  Her photographs are romantic and done with natural light with simple backgrounds to make the focus more on the subject then of their surroundings.

This was done by Henry Peach Robinson in 1858.  This was the world's first photomontage in which he combined multiple negatives to form an image.  This photograph is called "Fading Away," and was five negatives into one.  

 

This photograph is done by Louis Ducos du Hauron in 1872.  This is the oldest known color photograph and it is a view of Angouleme in Southern France.