HAA 0105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Nicéphore Niépce, Henry Fox Talbot, Silver Iodide
5 Apr 2018
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Daguerreotype: first photographic technology, invented by jacques mande daguerre in. Camera obscura (dark room: not a sharp image. Joseph nicephore niepce used a photosensitive substance (bitisun) Silver iodide is extremely light sensitive and put it in a camera obscura. Busiest street in paris in the middle of the day. People did(cid:374)"t stay lo(cid:374)g e(cid:374)ough to (cid:373)ake a(cid:374) i(cid:373)pri(cid:374)t i(cid:374) the photo. Less popular because talbot got a patent for it. Rise of photography also ran with the rise of imperialist expansion. Treat the conquered place, their people and objects, are viewed as specimens to be observed. Spain is a dying empire that america acquired much land from them in the spanish american. Books were made of photographs of this war. Announcement of surrender: allowed themselves to be photographed, sitting bull 1881, cetshwayo 1883. Member of colonial class in south africa. The ones taking photographs are of higher class (imperial rulers)
