Also known as a previous commercial artist, Louis Daguerre invented the ability for cameras to capture fleeting images accurately . Louis Daguerre was born in November 18, 1787, in Cormeilles, France. His first job wasn’t a photographer, but it was Daguerre’s first step in getting attracted by the way lighting and reproducing accurate scenes work. Daguerre wasn’t a photographer, or an inventor from the beginning of his life. “By 1825, Daguerre was a successful commercial artist in Paris; creator, proprietor, and promoter of a giant illusionistic theater called the Diorama” (Nelson). The Diorama is a spectacle featuring theatrical paintings and lighting effects, along with huge paintings (Daniel). Daguerre was able to simulate various scenes by illustrating accurate reproductions (Nelson). “He knew the camera obscura and used it to make sketches from nature for creating an illusion of reality in his Diorama” (“History of Photography: Daguerre Pictures”). Through his prior knowledge for cameras, Daguerre was able to create the Diorama then go further into the world of photography. Louis Daguerre, known as one of the father of photography, influences many photographers with his daguerreotype, even today.
Louis Daguerre influenced numerous photographers by inventing a photographic process called the daguerreotype. Daguerreotype is remarkable detailed, highly polished on a silver-plated copper that seemed magical to many people (Daniel). The daguerreotype well captured the society’s lifestyle in a striking yet realistic way (Nelson). This would’ve been the most attractive point about the daguerreotype; the clarity of the pictures were probably very eye-catching. He had a determined goal, and this goal was his one and only. Daguerre wan...
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... photographs today. If daguerreotype wasn’t created successfully and wasn’t known to the world, people today wouldn’t have their abilities to take accurate pictures of a scenery they might admire. In conclusion, modern cameras won’t be existed, or wouldn’t have been this highly develops unless it was the daguerreotypes; this was the first step of developing our photographic world today.
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To be named one of the top photographers of the 20th Century is a substantial credit on its own, but to do so with no formal training or background in the art is remarkable, yet accomplished by Philippe Halsman. It all started at the young age of fifteen, when Philippe would photograph friends and family with his father’s 9x12-cm view camera, developing the glass plate “miracles” in the family’s bathroom sink. Even in these early years, using rudimentary equipment, it was evident Halsman had a gift and would leave a definitive mark on the photographic industry. With his ability to capture the true spirit of the subject and his advanced technical abilities, his career was destined to be nothing short of successful (B. Johnson 180).
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The first type of using light to make a picture was the daguerreotype. Both Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre and Nicephore Niepce, who passed away before the public was introduced to the daguerreotype, founded this type of picture taking. However, before this Louis Daguerre made a "theater without actors." Beaumont Newhall explains that this was an illusion made by extraordinary lighting effects that made the 45 ½ foot by 71 ½ foot pictures appear to change as one looked at them (2).
Question 2: Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre made the Louis Daguerre in 1838, which was made with a camera obscura but had no color in it. The Daguerreotype manuals went around the world a year later and begin studies on the process. Historical it was the first photograph and changed the art world view on images because it was just so perfectly designed.
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A major social condition that contributed to the emergence of Realism was the Industrial Revolution. With its mass machinery production of products, the Industrial Revolution not only created an explosion of railroads and cities but also an explosion of wealthy middle class and poor working class. The discovery of photography in 1839 by Daguerre and others also resulted in a growing trend to copy everyday life, which in turn sprouted the appeal of realism in art. Buser (2006) noted that during the Industrial Revolution the rules of life were the fundamental ideas of technology, science and practical business sense. Buser (2006) further theorized “Since progress in these...
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Photogenic drawing is an invention which is an early photographic procedure made by William Henry Fox Talbot. According to Malcolm Daniel his invention, which was made during the industrial revolution, opened up a whole different world for photography (Malcolm Daniel, William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877) and the Invention of Photography, Metmuseum.org). Moreover, Talbot’s innovation became the foundation of 19th and 20th century photography. The photogenic drawing concept led through many impacts on modern world.
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Cinematography is a relatively new job, with photography invented in the nineteenth century and major film studios popping up in the early 1900s. A French man by the name of Louis Daguerre is credited with the first uses of photography, beginning in the 1830s. Daguerre’s method took anywhere from five to forty minutes to develop a permanent image. In the 1840s, Josef M. Petzval, a Hungarian, was able to cut down on this time, as well as produce a clearer image. George Eastman was able to develop a “lightweight, inexpensive” (Digital History) camera, Kodak, and paper film wound on rollers (Digital History).
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