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    Photography is an art though the process involves science. Fundamentally speaking‚ science is associated with this art; it is an art but with technological advancements and invention of digital camera. In the time to come‚ it is expected that this art of photography would function with the support of science and many artists would continue to do the art work in this field of photography. Ever since 1839‚ photography has become an essential means of communication and expression. As stated by Beaumont

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    and developing process for her photography originates in 1850‚ in the photographic process that replaced the daguerreotype. The method she uses is the Ambrotype process. The Ambrotype was advertised as a faster and cheaper alternative. Ambrotypes were also enclosed in a decorative case but the image was formed on glass‚ which does not have the highly reflective quality of the daguerreotype. The tintype‚ or ferrotype‚ was derived from the ambrotype process but created its image on a thin sheet of

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    Therefore‚ the young Brady began his love for photography through Morse. Brady began to study the standards of this new and exciting art form. It took Brady several years to acquire the skill needed to take off in to the world and business of daguerreotype. Yet‚ in 1844 his professional photographer career began. Mathew was a respected photographer before even the thought of a civil war. He was very devoted to his work with the photographs. Many people did not consider photography an art form

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    In The Body and the Archive‚ Sekula takes us through the progression of the function and uses of photography‚ dating back to the time of the daguerreotypes. He first centers the article on the idea that photography in the late 1700s is the manifestation of modernity run riot. Throughout the article‚ Sekula focuses on a variety of points that delve deep and unwrap the implementation of photography in the criminal sphere. Sekula points out in the beginning of the article that Talbot‚ considered to

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    The American Project is a contest of taking pictures of famous people. Mathew won tons of awards for his photos. He was one of the first people to use sky light as part of photography equipment. Later he produced a type of photography called daguerreotype . Mathew started to go blind so his chief assistant was put in charge. When the Civil War started Mathew sent out 100 camera men . He provided them with their own dark rooms so they could get the collidion plates on the spot .Mathew didn’t

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    documented although unsuccessful attempt. In the mid-1820s‚ Nicéphore Niépce succeeded‚ but several days of exposure in the camera were required and the earliest results were very crude. Niépce ’s associate Louis Daguerre went on to develop the daguerreotype process‚ the first publicly announced photographic process‚ which required only minutes of exposure in the camera and produced clear‚ finely detailed results. It was commercially introduced in 1839‚ a date generally accepted as the birth year of

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    business manufacturing jewelry cases. After working a short time in Albany with William Page‚ he accompanied the painter to New York. He studied under Samuel F.B Morse‚ who had recently introduced photography to America. He was learning the new Daguerreotype process‚ which was the first practicable method of obtaining permanent images with a camera. This process was an image that was made directly on a sheet of copper that was plated with silver‚ then polished and exposed to iodine vapor so that the

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    Portrait photography is a type of photography where a person or a group of people express feelings‚ emotions and mood etc. In the photo‚ the main focus of the picture is to capture the persons face although background and the entire body may also be included. Portrait photography can entertain any age. □ UNITY: Unity is achieved by the use of balance and repetition‚ unity simply meaning that everything belongs together when compared by two separate things. □ BALANCE: Can be symmetrical

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    While it is easy to make comparisons between the pupil of the eye and the f-stop of a camera or between the retina of the eye and photographic film‚ once we get past the basic similarities of the optics of the two systems‚ comparisons begin to rapidly break down. The eye is not only much more complex than a camera and its film‚ but the two imaging devices function by different chemical mechanisms. The photographer (or the automatic exposure system of the camera) regulates the f-stop opening and time

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    Mackensie Archibald History of Photography October 15th‚ 2012 Portraiture‚ expressing people since photography was born Before discussing what portraiture is and the history of it‚ what first needs to occur is to understand the true meaning of portraiture. Unlike several other areas of photography‚ portraiture is a personal experience. It is based on the interaction between the subject and photographer. Portrait photography is an act which involves both the photographer and the subject to reveal

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