What is photography’s “true genius”?
Photography always transforms what it describes, amd art of photography is to control that transformation. Photography can delight us, moved us, also disappoint us, but what is most important it intrigue us. The true genius of photography is that photography showed us secrets of our own appearances, and secrets of the surrounding us world.
Name a proto-photographer.
Henry Fox Talbot.
In the 19th century, what term was associated with the daguerreotype?
‘Mirror with memory’ for me this method gives the feeling of ghost trapped in the mirror.
What is the vernacular?
The Vernacular is an every day genre of photography, it contains scientific photography, journalistic, etc. So actually all uses of photography that are not considered as an art.
How do you “Fix the Shadows”?
By fixing shadows we mean stopping image from exposing using specific darkroom chemistry
What is the “carte de visite”?
It was a type of photography that was taking 8 different pictures of a person, and was later used for promotional and commercial purposes.
Who was Nadar and why was he so successful?
Gaspard-Felix Tournachon known as Nadar became successful as he revolutionalized the world of portraiture photography. His revolution showed no specific decorations, and created a more 'natural' like portraits of celebrities.
What is pictorialism?
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