Sunday, September 29, 2013

Assignment 3 Fall 2013


Visual Journal
due Monday  October 14, 2013 The European Invention of Photography and 19th Century British Applications


The Pencil of Nature, TR57 P66 1990 [VHS] (required)
The Eye of the Empire, TR 775 E94 1989 [VHS] (required)

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

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

The Magic Mirror, TR 646 M334 1991 [VHS]




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 many of the early practitioners of photography within Britain?



What characterized their approach to photography? How did they view this new medium, photography?



What would you say was the relationship between painting and photography in Victorian England, as presented in the videos?



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.

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