Assignment 4

Assignment 4

Visual Journal

Due January 26, 2009

Assignment 4

The European Invention of Photography and 19th Century British Applications

Due Tuesday October 7th
The Pencil of Nature, TR57 P66 1990 [VHS]
The Magic Mirror, TR 646 M334 1991 [VHS]
The Eye of the Empire, TR 775 E94 1989 [VHS]
William Henry Fox Talbot, TR 140 T3 W55 2003 [DVD] (Optional)
Daguerre and the Photo Camera, TR 140 D3 D34 2004 [DVD] (Optional)
Answer the following questions from information presented in the 3 videos in class. If you use other sources, please cite them.

What one essential technological difference separated the photographic inventions of Niépce and Daguerre from that of Fox Talbot?
What occupations and social class seemed to characterize most of the early practitioners of photography within Britain?
What characterized their approach to photography? How did they view the new medium?
Describe how photography was used to support the British conception of the 19th century world order?
Describe how the use of photography developed in tandem with the
new social science of anthropology.