SLGY 3233 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Nude Photography, French Postcards, View-Master
21 Mar 2017
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Early photography posing yet that took several minutes of posing to capture (thus few smiles) Oldest surviving photograph view from the window at la gras 1826 or 1827. Photography was invented in early 1800s but not available till 1839 with daguerreotype cameras. By 1840s- photographs pf naked women emerge. First nude photographers were in paris and first models were prostitutes. These early photos showed women who just sat passively had not developed choreography of. Daguerreotype photos were expensive (costing a week"s salary) Stereoscopy as a precursor to the view master, was invented in 1840s giving a 3d quality to. Calotype photography was invented which produced negatives, thus allowing for mass. Eventually many photographs were made into post cards which the british called french. Magic of photograph was that it was not of an imaginary person sketched on paper but a real.
