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On the second day of Christmas, photography gave to me – the first photograph.
To better understand the complex history of photography this series is divided into chapters. Each chapter focuses on a key photographic process and includes inspiring examples of the process. The first is Niépce’s heliograph: View From A Window at Le Gras, commonly attributed as the “first photograph”, it was made nearly 200 years ago and still exists to this day. The documentary series also focuses on photography’s fascinating array of inventors. Louise Daguerre, a Parisian showman, created the first commercially successful photographic process, the Daguerreotype. The world hasn’t been the same since. If you found this video informative and worth sharing, please share it 🙂 – Matt & Jess A note from the filmmakers: Sir John Hershcel was both an accomplished inventor and intriguing historic figure. As Mark Osterman asserts, “He’s the person who could have invented photography if he’d been bothered to”. It was Herschel who advised Talbot on how to ‘fix’ his images permanently. Herschel’s cyanotype process was unique in that it was a non-silver-based process and contains both the qualities of a Printing Out process as well as a Developing Out process. One of the highlights of the entire series is demonstrating how a cyanotype print comes to life in a bath of plain old water. Unlike other processes, the cyanotype process found new life through amateur photographic printing and architectural implementation well into the 21st century. A note from the filmmakers: Not only did the collodion process produce a precise negative, it was also used in two popular direct positive processes, the tintype and the ambrotype. Getting your portrait done, which previously was affordable only for the wealthy, became inexpensive enough for everyone. The processes ushered in a romanticized era of the mobile horse-drawn laboratories that would make tintypes of soldiers during the Civil War. |
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