http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma02/volpe/theater/theater/sarony.html
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Napoleon Sarony
Sarony was a lithogrpher and budding photographer recognized the opportunity presented by the ascent of theater in society and the innovations in modern photography and launched a sudio on broadway in 1866. Over the next 30 years he photographed almost every star of the New York Stage. Up to his death it is shown that he had more than 40,000 negatives of show business personalities in his possession. He developed a rapport with the players and was famous for his use of lively backgrounds and having his subjects pose in colorful gestures.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma02/volpe/theater/theater/sarony.html
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma02/volpe/theater/theater/sarony.html
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Antoine-Jean-Francois Claudet
Claudet was born in 1797, in Lyon, France. He then settled in London in 1827. After being a successful glass merchant, he learned the daguerreotype process from Daguerre himself. Claudet then purchased the first Daguerreotype license in Egland and estabished his own photographic studio on the roof of the Adelaide Gallery, behind St. Martin's church, London, from 1841 to 1851, later moved to 107 Regent Street. He broght several new technical improvements to the Daguerreotype process, including new sensiizing materials, exposure times and focal improvements, and is credit with the discovery that it was possible to develop prints under a red light, as well as the use of painted backdrops. Claudet passed away on December 27, 1867.
http://photographyhistory.blogspot.com/2010/09/antoine-jean-francois-claudet.html
http://photographyhistory.blogspot.com/2010/09/antoine-jean-francois-claudet.html
Gertrude Stanton Kasebier
Kasebier was born in 1852 in Des Moines, Iowa. The start of her career in art followed from her first career as a mother. She studied painting at Pratt Institute, and after that she opened her first portrait studio in New York in 1897, she switched to photography, displaying the influence of her painting training in herPictorialist style. Her family and friends posed for her most celebrated series of photographs on the subject of motherhood.She exhibited her photographs in the Piladelphia Society exhibitions, and after Alfred Stieglitz reproduced five of her images in his journal Camera Notes in 1899. he following year, Kasebier and Anne Brigman wre the first two women to be elected to the British Linked Ring. Two years laer she became a founding member of Stieglitz's Photo-Secession group. Later on Kasebier broe with Stieglitz and the Photo-Secession in 1912 but continued to photograph until she closed her studio in 1929. Kasebier passed away in 1934 in New York City.
http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=1986
http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=1986
John William Draper
Draper was born on May 5, 1811 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. He was a doctor, historian, chemist, and professor. He conducted landmark reserch into spectrum analysis and radiant light and heat, and showed that chlorine gas is altered by exposure to sunlight. He took the first detailed magnified photographs of the moon. He was the first president of the American Chemical Society, and a founder of the New York University School of Medicine. Draper also worked off of Louis Daguerre, whose work had allowed slow exposures of landscapes. After repeated falures, he finally accomplished the first photograph of a humans face. His sisters to be exact, Dorthy Catherie Draper in 1839. He also used a camera made of a cigar box and an eyelass lens in 1840, and opened his first photographic portrait studio. One of his students was Matthew Brady, another famous photographer. Draper passed away on January 4, 1882 in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY.
http://www.nndb.com/people/733/000167232/
http://www.nndb.com/people/733/000167232/
Julia Margaret Cameron
Cameron was born in 1815 in Calcutta, India. After she recieved her very first camera from her daughter and son-in-law, she began her working career in photography at the age of 48. She produced most of her work from her home at Freshwater on the Isle of Wight. She used her family, domestic servants, and local residents as her models for her photography. She photographed the intellectuals and leaders within her circle of family and friends, some included, the painter George Frederick Watts, the astronomer Sir John Heschel, and the poet Laureate Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Cameron stated her photographic mission thus: "My aspirations are to ennoble Photography and to secure for it the character and uses of High Art by combining the real and Ideal and sacrificing nothing of the Truth by all possible evotion to Poetry and beauty." Cameron died in 1879 in Sri Lanka.
http://www.getty.edu/art/getyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=2026
http://www.getty.edu/art/getyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=2026
Paul Nadar
Nadar was born in 1856 and was a French Photographer, caricaturist, a writer and a balloonist. He was also the son of Felix Nadar. By 1853 he had become an expert photographer and oped up his own portrait studio. His portraits were neutral, unlike most photographers who's protraits were stiff. In 1855, he came up with the idea of using aerial photography from a balloon, with the balloon being named Le Geant. In 1874 he worked for his father in his fathers studio in Paris. In 1885 he collaborated with his father to make the first photo interview of a 101 year old chemist and colot theorist Michel- Eugene Chevreul. In 1893 he became Eastman Kodak's rpresentative in France. Nadar later died in 1939.
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Franz Hanfstaengl
Hanfstaengl was born on March 1, 1804 in Baiernrain bei Bad Tolz. He was a German painter, lithographer and photographer. In 1816 he came on the recommendation of the town-school-teachers into the drawing-class of the leave-day school at Munich led by Hermann Josef Mitterer. He was taught lithography and he had contact with Alois Senefelder and studiedform 1819 to 1825 at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. In 1826 he went to Dresden and began his great work, he completed in 1852, of copying in lithograph the canvases of the Dresden Gallery. Between 1835 and 1852 Hanfstaengl brought out about 200 lithographic reproductions of masterworks from the Dresden picture-gallery, and published them in a portfolio. In 1833 in founded in Munich a lithographic establishment of his own, which he kept open until 1868, and to which he later attached a fine art printing shop and a photographic workshop. He was nicknamed 'Count Litho.' He later produced portraits of famous people such as King Ludwig II, Otto von Bismarck and Empress Elisabeth of Austria. Hanfstaengl passed away on April 18, 1877 in Munich.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FranzHanfstaengl
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FranzHanfstaengl
Carte de Visite
Small albumen prints mounted on cards 2-1/2 by 4 inches. They were wildly popular and made for decades in countries around the world. They were able to let friends and relatives exchange portraits, knowing that they would find a place in the others family album. Carte de Visite's could be sent through the mail without the need for a huge case and fragile cover glass. They were extremely inexpensive and they became so popular that by 1863 Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote, "Card portraits, as everybody knows, have become the social currency, the 'green-backs' of civilization." They were also used to invite people to social gatherings, having a name engraved and printed on glossy stock. The standard size mentioned up above, was patented by a Parisian photographer, Andre Adolphe Disderi, in 1854. The use of a sliding plate holder and a camera with four lenses, made it easier to have eight negatives that could be taken on a single 8'' x 10'' glass plate. Cartes were introduced in New York, probably by C.D. Fredericks, late in the summer of 1859. The American Civil War gave the format enormous momentum as soldiers and their families posed for cartes before they were seperated by war or death. Queen Victoria created more than a hundred albums of cartes, featuring royalty and others of social prominence. Sales in England ran in the hundereds of millions, annually. Cartes were also made of groups and landscapes and even as pioneering examples of photojournalism.
http://www.photographymuseum.com/histsw.htm
http://www.photographymuseum.com/histsw.htm
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