COMM 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Silver Nitrate, Silver Chloride, Multiple Exposure
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Technology based on silver salts (silver chloride and silver nitrate) darkened in light. Print = judea hardens in light, unhardened and washed away, acid etches image, coated with ink. Charles daguerre: father of photography: daguerreotype. Nadar: photography has different functions (1850s: artistic, historical (self-portrait, revealing (catacombs) Early photography: realistic (david hill, fantastic (felix bonfils) double exposure. Mis-en-scene (placed in scene: the way things are placed in the frame. Props (or absence of props), lighting, setting: significance in scene/image. From static image to movement: photography is static. Gives illusion of movement: how it works: First noted in 1820s as a scientific phenomenon. Fluid film = 16 frames per second. Normal movie is 24 frames per second. Thomas edison found that 46 frames per second allowed for no flicker. Projector technology: camera obscura (lens technology, magic lantern (projector) came out in the early 1890s, photographic gun (capture flight of birds, thomas varmat (vitascope, lumiere brothers (hand crank, first sold tickets)
