Minisode 7: Early Photography

Listen to the episode HERE on Soundcloud or visit the podcast on iTunes, either through the Podcasts App (just search for “Stuff about Things Art History”) or by clicking HERE. Happy listening!

Please check back around 12/11 for a more complete page. I only got the basics done before having to leave on a jet plane. -Lindsay

Sources:

The Art of Photography – Video about the Camera Obscura
Niepce House Museum – Video about Bitumen Varnish
Niepce House Museum – Video about iodine treatment
Niepce House Museum – Video about revealing the image
The Victoria & Albert Museum – How was it made? The Daguerrotype
The Victoria & Albert Museum – How was it made? Calotypes
The George Eastman Museum – The Photographic Process Series – Chapter 5 of 12 (The Wet Collodion Process)

Images:

A camera obscura with a mirror, resulting in an upright image (rather than an inverse image) [image source: Wikipedia]

Nicéphore Niépce, *A view from Le Gras, France*, 1827 — the first ever fixed photograph [image source: Castelbianco via Wikipedia]

Jean-Baptiste Sabatier-Blot, *Daguerrotype Portrait of Louis Daguerre*, 1844 [image source: Wikipedia]

1839 Susse Frères Daguerreotype Camera, the very kind Daguerre developed and used [image source: Wikipedia]

Diagram showing the process of contact printing [image source: TPub]

Louis Daguerre, *Paris Boulevard (*or *View of the Boulevard du Temple),* 1839, daguerreotype. Notice the vague figure of a man in the lower lefthand corner [image source: Smart History]

-Please check back again on 12/11!

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