Exam format: essay
Albumen
Ambrotype
Cabinet card
Calotype
Camera obscura
Carte de visite
Daguerreotype
Heliograph
Lantern slides
Silver salts
Tintype
Wet-plate Collodion process
Louis Daguerre
Niecephore Niepce
William Henry Fox Talbot
Matthew Brady
Napolen Sarony
Nadar
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Edgar Allen Poe
Sarah Bernhardt
Edwin Booth
Oscar Wilde
Bonfils family
Maxime Du Camp
Henri Le Secq
Francis Frith
Timothy O’Sullivan
Carleton Watkins
“The burden of representation”
copyright and intellectual property issues
Daguerrean studio
Egyptology
Fixing an image
“Hausmannization” of Paris
Imperialism and colonialism
Itenerant photographers
Keystone View Company
Manifest destiny
Middle class
Mission heliographique
Negative/positive
Phrenology
Rise of public culture/mass media
Stereograph
Transparency of the photographic image
Know the basics of the primary source readings
The evolution of technologies (know the basic differences between processes, but don’t worry about the specific names chemicals used)
The different kinds of people who become photographers
The history of the portrait & its spread
The early uses of landscape views
Early reactions to experiencing the daguerreotype and the stereo view
The history of the stereo view and its uses
For this exam, there is not a specific list of images to memorize; however, you should be fairly familiar with the images in the book (from the pages of assigned readings) and that we have reviewed in class. Questions will be posed as either single slides or pairs of slides (with their vital statistics provided). Your task will be to write an analysis of why the image is important or what place it has in photo history, or what the comparison reveals about photo history; these slides may or may not be previously seen photographs. The goal here is that you are able to apply the terms and concepts that we have learned in this class to a range of images.