Sentences with phrase «making daguerreotypes»

The acclaimed Japanese photographer Takashi Arai has been making daguerreotypes since 2010 to create individual records, or «micro-monuments,» of subject matter relating to nuclear history.

In 1850, two Americans — astronomer William Cranch Bond and photographer John Adams Whipple — produced the first photograph of a star when they made a daguerreotype of Vega (also known as Alpha Lyrae).

He made this daguerreotype of Cathedral Rocks and Cathedral Spires in June 2012.

Not exact matches

The Internet spread the news (ironically, daguerreotypes make great JPEG files: A backlit monitor simulates the effect of light scattering off the plate's silver background), and a very small revival began.

Daguerre's technique, which used copper plates coated with silver, was made known to the public in 1839 and the images were called «daguerreotypes».

Blocker hates Native Americans, as is made clear from his closed - off face — as distant as a figure in a daguerreotype — and his grim reminiscences of surviving and committing atrocities during the Indian Wars.

Throughout his career, Close has explored various methods of creation, including painting, print - making, and photography, particularly large - format Polaroids and Daguerreotypes.

The first exhibition to focus exclusively on photographs made in the eastern half of the United States during the 19th century, East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth - Century American Landscape Photography showcases some 175 works — from daguerreotypes and stereographs to albumen prints and cyanotypes — as well as several photographers whose efforts have often gone unheralded.

For them, alternative photography represents exposure to the entire spectrum of photographic image making, including daguerreotype, tintype, calotype, and dry plate processes.

A series of daguerreotypes, made using the 19th century technique will also be on view.

Made without a camera, Fuss's photograms and daguerreotypes are distilled to the fundamental components of the medium: light, subject matter, and photo - sensitive paper or metal.

The vehicles for Close's mark - making range from oil paint, airbrush, and finger printing, to paper pulp, colored pencil, and photography — including the Daguerreotype, which, like the artist's jacquard tapestries, revived a centuries - old - tradition, propelling an antiquated technique into the modern era.

His work at the Getty included the exhibitions André Kertész: A Centennial Tribute (1994), Alfred Stieglitz: Seen and Unseen (1995 — 1996), Julia Margaret Cameron: The Creative Process (1996 — 1997), The Making of a Daguerreotype: Images and Artifacts (1998), Spirit into Matter: The Photographs of Edmund Teske (2004) and The Photographs of Frederick Sommer: A Centennial Tribute (2005).

Two gallery shows, a museum exhibit and a conference are shining a spotlight on preindustrial image - making methods such as daguerreotypes, tintypes, calotypes, salted - paper prints and more — experimental processes that were often difficult to manage and unpredictable in their results.

Nearly every photographic process from its origins — daguerreotypes, albumen silver prints, gelatin silver prints, gum bichromates, platinum silver, cyanotypes and even digital archival prints — are in the collection, making it a keen contribution to the history of the medium itself beyond Albany's city limits.

Made without a camera, Fuss's photograms and daguerreotypes are distilled to the essential components of the photographic medium: light, subject matter, and photo - sensitive paper or metal.