CAS AH 295 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Combination Printing, Peter Henry Emerson, Aestheticism
3 Apr 2016
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Interest in paintings and imagery of landscapes and pleasant things. Interest in scientific inquiry and waiting to record things. Photography took this one step further in desire to capture reality. Camera lucida - simple drawing device that projected a landscape onto a paper. Talbot wanted to find a better solution to create and fix images. Phantasmagoria - magic lantern slide shows that were projected in theaters. 1816 - began experimenting with photography, goal was to copy art. View from his window at le gras, c. 1827. Louis jacques mande daguerre - painter that made stage sets and dioramas, wrote to niepce to collaborate. Involved reproduction of image on a copper plate, and development of image in mercury. Process disseminated through manuals distributed by the french government. Process spread to us and across europe. John plumbe - learned daguerreotyping in europe, became established daguerreotypist in the. John adams whipple - interested in manufacturing chemicals.
