Media, Information and Technoculture 2000F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Louis Daguerre, Mathew Brady, Dry Plate
22 Dec 2016
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Louis daguerre came up with the first type of photography. See the spread of photographic studios, can only shoot indoors. Unique image can only make one unique image (non-producible), (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t (cid:271)e repli(cid:272)ated (limitation. Same as being an artist and drawing a piece of art) Web plate collodion process, 1850s: multiple print from single glass negative (multiple copies, cheaper, more mobile, user friendly, labour intensive, slow, lets you shoot outdoors. Might shoot a lot and only be able to use one: had to have all the wet chemicals, so the dry plate was invented, needed a portable darkroom. Became more mobile, starts to see more travel type photos (exploration) No more portable darkrooms: did not need all the chemicals. Allo(cid:449)ed people like george da(cid:449)so(cid:374) (cid:894)(cid:373)ap (cid:373)aker(cid:895) (cid:862)geologi(cid:272)al ur(cid:448)ey of ca(cid:374)ada(cid:863) brought photography along with geography. In his studio he often did portraits with celebrities, politicians, Mathew brady famous photographer in the u. s. Portraiture embodies nation history, model of citizenships.
