Hear what the experts have to say about crucial issues such as whether or not the images we take today will last the test of time, and if so, how? When material is covered this skillfully, "concise is no compromise. The Concise Focal Encyclopedia of Photography is packed with useful information, compelling ideas, and - best of all - pure pleasure. Download or read Forget Photography book by clicking button below to visit the book download website. Why we must forget photography and reject the frame of reality it prescribes and delineates.
The central paradox this book explores is that at the moment of photography's replacement by the algorithm and data flow, photographic cultures proliferate as never before. The afterlife of photography, residual as it may technically be, maintains a powerful cultural and representational hold on reality, which is important to understand in relationship to the new conditions. Forgetting photography is a strategy to reveal the redundant historicity of the photographic constellation and the cultural immobility of its epicenter.
It attempts to liberate the image from these historic shackles, forged by art history and photographic theory. More important, perhaps, forgetting photography also entails rejecting the frame of reality it prescribes and delineates, and in doing so opens up other relationships between bodies, times, events, materials, memory, representation and the image. Forgetting photography attempts to develop a systematic method for revealing the limits and prescriptions of thinking with photography, which no amount of revisionism of post-photographic theory can get beyond.
The world urgently needs to unthink photography and go beyond it in order to understand the present constitution of the image as well as the reality or world it shows. Forgetting photography will require a different way of organizing knowledge about the visual in culture that involves crossing different knowledges of visual culture, technologies, and mediums.
It will also involve thinking differently about routine and creative labor and its knowledge practices within the institutions and organization of visual reproduction. Download or read Capturing the Light book by clicking button below to visit the book download website. An intimate look at the journeys of two men—a gentleman scientist and a visionary artist—as they struggled to capture the world around them, and in the process invented modern photography During the s, in an atmosphere of intense scientific enquiry fostered by the industrial revolution, two quite different men—one in France, one in England—developed their own dramatically different photographic processes in total ignorance of each other's work.
These two lone geniuses—Henry Fox Talbot in the seclusion of his English country estate at Lacock Abbey and Louis Daguerre in the heart of post-revolutionary Paris—through diligence, disappointment and sheer hard work overcame extraordinary odds to achieve the one thing man had for centuries been trying to do—to solve the ancient puzzle of how to capture the light and in so doing make nature 'paint its own portrait'.
With the creation of their two radically different processes—the Daguerreotype and the Talbotype—these two giants of early photography changed the world and how we see it. Drawing on a wide range of original, contemporary sources and featuring plates in colour, sepia and black and white, many of them rare or previously unseen, Capturing the Light by Roger Watson and Helen Rappaport charts an extraordinary tale of genius, rivalry and human resourcefulness in the quest to produce the world's first photograph.
Download or read Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography, 3-Volume Set book by clicking button below to visit the book download website. The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography explores the vast international scope of twentieth-century photography and explains that history with a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary manner.
This unique approach covers the aesthetic history of photography as an evolving art and documentary form, while also recognizing it as a developing technology and cultural force. This Encyclopedia presents the important developments, movements, photographers, photographic institutions, and theoretical aspects of the field along with information about equipment, techniques, and practical applications of photography. To bring this history alive for the reader, the set is illustrated in black and white throughout, and each volume contains a color plate section.
A useful glossary of terms is also included. Download or read Singular Images, Failed Copies book by clicking button below to visit the book download website. Focusing on early nineteenth-century England? Singular Images, Failed Copies historicizes the conceptualization of photography in that era as part of a major historical change.
Instead, she points to material, formal, and conceptual differences between those two types of images by considering the philosophical and aesthetic premises linked with early photography.
In Singular Images, Failed Copies, Maimon shows that the perception of the photographic image in the s and s was in fact symptomatic of a crisis in the epistemological framework that had informed philosophical, scientific, and aesthetic thought for two centuries.
Download or read Light and Photomedia book by clicking button below to visit the book download website. There is no silver in this process: the image is formed by a pigment dispersed in gelatin and the operating principle has nothing to do with silver salts. The light-sensitive substance is impregnated in gelatin chromium salts, which hardens and retains the pigment in the gripped areas exposed to sunlight; the gelatin does not harden the unexposed areas but dissolves it in water.
The pigment may be carbon powder, or any other color; The designation, which was generalized "proven coal", was given to the first pigment. It was used precisely in the coal dust. They were evidence 58 www. Still, the public only moderately adhered to this new process, much expensive and difficult to implement than printing on albumin. Its achievement required a great skill to manage the printer once it was necessary to make a transfer of the image in gelatin to another paper support.
Coal papers were marketed in the three degrees of contrast and the most common colors were brown and black. This process was also called Permanent Photography and Cromotipia and has been practiced since the s to about Colors 59 www.
The evidence in coal are common in landscapes and monuments albums of art pictures and portraits of famous people. In England, the carbon paper was produced under the trade name of Autotype and was marketed until mid-twentieth century. In Lisbon, at least one studio, the Popular Photography, printed portraits in charcoal paper, the business card formats and others.
Printing on platinum paper 61 www. Willis was able to use the light sensitivity of iron salts, had known to reduce a compound of platinum and create from there photographic images of very good quality. After exposed to sunlight the negative proof was revealed, forming the neutral color image and then fixed in an acid bath. Willis improved several times the process and reached good results which gave the possibility to start an industrial production of this paper: Platinotype Company was based in London manufactured since platinum paper in three types of surfaces textured, smooth and matte medium also in various colors.
Other inventors have announced variations to this 62 www. In the last decade of the nineteenth century, printing in platinum gains popularity and other manufacturers enter the market, including the Ilford, Hesekiel in England and Gevaert in Belgium. In the United States, platinum role was produced by Aristotype Co. In the Company manufactured a Platinotype paper silver and platinum designated Satista. The popularity of platinum paper grew, reaching its peak this decade.
However, at the beginning of the First World War, the rising price of platinum made it impractical; Kodak stopped the production of this paper in ; 63 www. The platinum paper could also be prepared by the photographer from writing paper of good quality and chemicals.
This is how some artists practice this process today. The platinum evidence has excellent image quality, neutral color, dull and a rich palette of gray with numerous shades and subtle tonal variations. Their contemplation is a real pleasure. Furthermore, a very stable image. The appearance of this paper was so different that operated a small revolution in photographic tastes of the public accustomed to over 40 years of warm color and shiny surface of albumin evidence.
It was a sign of prosperity and 64 www. Professionals offered their customers the choice of printing in platinum as a luxury item. In the early twentieth century, the artistic and literary medium, the platinum paper, have contributed significantly to the creation of a new aesthetic establish photography as an art form.
Shooting halls in that time, with the evidence in platinum, was frequent and very well priced. Taking advantage of the public interest in evidence of neutral color and dull, manufacturers have developed other papers silver based with platinum paper characteristics at a lower price 66 www.
Negatives dry collodion glass The drawbacks of the wet collodion process led photographers trying to change. That would facilitate the process of implementation and disclosed awareness and revelation at the time of photographing. They have been trying numerous variations to keep the wet collodion longer. Some very familiar included substances such as honey, sugar, resin and albumin, which were added to the collodion.
One of the best successful variations, suggested by Norris, was covering wet collodion layer with gelatin already sensitized. The first dry collodion plates, were half the sensitivity of wet plates.
These innovations have allowed the industrial preparation of dry collodion plates. In appeared extra quick plates, with similar sensitivity of the wet sensitive collodion retained for one year. Despite these major innovations, the process of wet collodion continued to be used. Gelatin is now universally used in the suspension of silver salts, silver grains or dyes in all contemporary photographic processes.
English Maddox was the first making practical its use in Maddox spread on the glass a solution gelatin with various silver salts, which were dominant silver bromide salts, forming a thin film which was termed as emulsion this is actually a suspension. After drying, the emulsion remained firmly clutching to the glass and remained unchanged for a long time. When the plate was processed, the gelatin swelled, opened pores and allowed the penetration and 70 www.
After drying, the gelatin returned to its initial state. In addition, this process brought to photography other big news: the use of a light-sensitive emulsion. The processes until then were sawed not using the emulsion, the substance was applied at the end of the preparation of the paper or glass, by means of a bath. The use of an emulsion was an important step forward to allow the industrial production of photographic plates, nevertheless, there was still, a long way along until reaching the perfection of today's photography.
This evolution was the work of several researchers. Improvements in the process Among the enhancements operated in the initial process of Maddox, who led us 71 www.
The process of ripping discovered by Bennett and Swan, which consists in heating the gelatin and silver crystals for some time at a moderate temperature. Silver bromide crystals grow in gelatin and its light sensitivity, also grows. The use of alkaline developers, gave better results with gelatin emulsion.
The 73 www. This process of increased sensitivity has opened doors to new ways of using it. Enabled to record the movement of people and objects and allowed the invention of cinema.
Gelatin plates were sold in various forms during the decade of In appears on the market a liquid emulsion of gelatin, written by Burgess for photographers to covering their own plates. In the same year, Richard Kennett emulsion marketed in the form of gelatin films, which should be diluted in hot water before coating the plates.
Small negative manufacturers of glass and gelatin began to emerge in this 74 www. Amateurs promptly joined this new process, much more practical and sensitive to light than the last one. Professionals had reluctance to changes, because they were used to working with slower emulsions. Some rejected the "excessive" sensitivity of the plates, which resulted in negative over- exposed or hidden. It was necessary to improve the shutter to achieve strict exposure times of fractions of a second; the system was withdrawing for a few seconds the lens cover for the exhibition, it did not work with negative gelatin.
In the early s, all the photographers were already 75 www. The last 20 years of the nineteenth century were of great changes for the photography itself. We find evidence in paper dull, bright or too bright, textured or not, even stained paper with pink or blue shades. Among these varieties the shiny surface of paper was highlighted and very bright, being the most used in portrait.
Nowadays is very current in photo collections and family albums. In these tests the baryte layer was very thick resulted from the overlap successive layers and totally concealing the fibers and other paper irregularities, achieving perfectly smooth surfaces; the very bright surfaces are a characteristic of collodion papers.
Generally, in English, these roles are nominated Printing Paper-Out, or Paper on which the image is formed by the action of light. Kodak kept the production of the last direct role of gelatin, Studio Proof until ; it was intended by proof choice of pictures, which were delivered to customers free of charge; as they were not fixed, they had a finite life.
This direct role in industrial production, appeared on the market in the early s and quickly became the 79 www. Reference to this paper is mandatory not only because of the quantities consumed, as well as the exceptional quality of its evidence: have neutral color, deep blacks, one excellent tonal reproduction and wealth of detail in the lighter areas; the surface has no luster since the baryte layer, very thin perceive leaves irregularities on the surface of the paper.
Its neutral color results from the double turning recommended by the manufacturer, first gold and then platinum. This neutral color and mate surface was inspired by the platinum paper manufacturers trying to get cheaper processes.
The turning gold 80 www. This paper produced images of such good quality and so stable that even today, it was not overtaken by other silver papers. Your image does not fade or turn yellow, even in adverse conditions. The specimens we find today, about years old, are generally in excellent condition and we highlight the evidence in other cases the same time.
Period of negatives film and evidence on paper of revelation 1. Negatives film 83 www. The glass is a voluminous material, heavy, very fragile and it could only be used on individual plates, which made the operation very difficult to photograph.
A flexible film strip, wrapped in a small roll, could produce many negatives, it was easily portable and does not weigh much. At the end of the nineteenth century photography was aimed by the general public and the simplification of process was inevitable.
The glass was undoubtedly one of the obstacles to remove. George Eastman produced and marketed in a photographic film of the emulsion of gelatin and silver bromide relied on a paper strip. In this first film roll, the paper support was 84 www.
After being exposed and processed, the negatives were impregnated in castor oil Ricinus communi or castor oil plant , to give greater transparency to the paper in print. With W. Walker, Eastman marketed a charger that allowed use your roll in any camera large format. This system was in some ways a return to the old calotype Talbot: in both cases, negative fibers in paper leave some grain in the final test and show the tonal range of glass negatives.
The scroll was later replaced by Eastman American Film, produced between ? And to overcome the inconvenience of granulated image. In 85 www. After exposed and processed the photographic film, paper was detached from the emulsion with hot water to dissolve the layer gelatin buffer and applied new gelatin layer to reinforce the structure of final negative. The obtained support was free from graininess. It was this film that equipped the first Kodak machines, Kodak and Kodak 1 2, circular image.
Cellulose nitrate film In it was launched the first film with plastic support, the cellulose nitrate. It was a flammable and chemically unstable material, which promised a lot 87 www.
The manufacturer had come to be called Eastman Kodak Company and its development is associated with the growth of the consumer market and the production of cameras small size and also to the film industry. The negative with cellulose nitrate support were marketed from until the beginning of the s were produced Rolls in 35 mm format, , , and others, sheets of various formats were also sold in packages; the Film Pack, from up to this was a practical system which allowed to expose the various plates machine without removing the package and without the use of darkroom.
Until , a large portion of film 35 mm photography was produced in medium cellulose nitrate; the rigid film sheet was 88 www. The last year of Kodak medium cellulose nitrate medium production was in for the X-ray film; to the film roll of 35 mm photographic; for plates portrait and commercial photography; to the plate for aerial photography; to the rollers , , , ; to the reels of 35 mm film.
Cameras for amateurs In Eastman has launched another product that would open the doors of photography to a much larger audience: a camera, which he called Kodak No. This camera, very simple to use, with focus and exposure fixed, allowed anyone, even a layman, shooting. The roll was included in the chamber and then exposed, the machine was sent to the factory with the roll for the negative be revealed and printed on paper.
A new roll was placed on the machine by the manufacturer and the set was sent again to the client, with the evidence and the processed negatives. The amateur photographer has to learn darkroom, chemicals and printing paper to be able to do photography. Amateur photographers multiplied. Later support roller role has plastic support roller. Sales of cameras has grown rapidly: The Kodak No.
The price of the cameras was lowering as they became more simple. In Kodak introduced the Brownie, a camera for children with a roll of 6 photos at the price of 1 dollar, selling in one year machines. Improvements in the process In the early twentieth century, the process black and white was very similar to what it is today. In the nineties, its evolution occurred towards obtaining more stable materials, more sensitive to light, sensitive to all colors.
New plastic supports 93 www. It was not easy to replace the cellulose nitrate to other plastic of better quality. Only in was released the film in cellulose diacetate, designated safety because it does not burn as easily as nitrate. Was produced in sheet and roll up to about The diacetate is also unstable; therefore, unable to replace nitrate in various uses, particularly in films for 35 mm film in appeared film of cellulose triacetate, more robust, replacing the cellulose nitrate in all applications.
This support remains in production today. Although more stable than nitrate, cellulose triacetate and 96 www. Other plastics family of acetates were also used as film support, such as cellulose acetate propionate between and and cellulose acetate butyrate from till today.
In the s finally emerges polyester, plastic support better quality and stability, far superior to any of the then existing holders. It was introduced in the photographic industry in as a support art graphic film and X-rays, since then its use has been increasing. Among its current applications were the art graphic film, aerial photography, X-ray and even the rolls of microfilm, some rolls 35mm with special applications have polyester support.
Extension of chromatic sensitivity 97 www. The daguerreotypes, photographic plates and the first wet collodion gelatin plates produced before , were sensitive only to blue light and ultraviolet radiation; they were blind to red and green.
For example, in the picture of someone dressed in blue, with red tie, we will have the blue clear and the tie dark. Once the crystals of silver chloride are colorless, they are only sensitive to ultraviolet radiation; silver bromide crystals, which are pale yellow, are also sensitive to violet and blue.
All emulsions used in the nineteenth century were unable to register the red and green and without them would be impossible any color process. The extent of this sensitivity to other colors was produced artificially. The German scientist Vogel discovered in , that it is possible to extend the chromatic sensitivity of silver salts by adding dyes photographic emulsion.
Among the tested dyes including the beet, able to sensitize the green light and chlorophyll able to sensitize the red 99 www. Those plates appeared in the market in It represented considerable progress once the vegetation photography has to be played in more detail. The disclosure of printing paper The photographic printing paper in black and white for revelation came in the market in the s and its use has grown in the latest nineteenth century. Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help!
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