Assignment 3

ART 170Z Photography as an Art Name:________________

Spring Quarter 2008

Randy Nelson

Visual Journal

Assignment 3

The European Invention of Photography and 19^th Century British Applications

Due Monday May 5th

The Pencil of Nature, TR57 P66 1990 [VHS] (Optional)

The Eye of the Empire, TR 775 E94 1989 [VHS]

William Henry Fox Talbot, TR 140 T3 W55 2003 [DVD]

Daguerre and the Photo Camera, TR 140 D3 D34 2004 [DVD]

Answer the following questions from information presented in the 4 videos in class. If you use other sources, please cite them.

1. What one essential technological difference separated the photographic inventions of Niépce and Daguerre from that of Fox Talbot?

2. What occupations and social class seemed to characterize most of the early practitioners of photography within Britain?

3. What characterized their approach to photography? How did they view the new medium?

4. Describe how photography was used to support the British conception of the 19^th century world order?

5. Describe how the use of photography developed in tandem with the

new social science of anthropology.