Photography 1800-1950

     Daguerre’s process rapidly spread through the world around 1840ish. The first daguerreotypes were announced in the United States that way they were made on September 16, 1839. The exposures were first of excessive length and it sometimes took over an hour to develop. Having the lengthy exposures and moving objects cannot be recorded this also made taking portraits impractical. Antoine Claudet was responsible for numerous improvements in photography this included the discovery of red light and how it wasn’t as effective as people thought it was. The improvements that have been made in the lenses and sensitizing techniques reduced exposure times to approximately 20 to 40 seconds. Daguerreotyping eventually became a flourishing industry. 

    Within photography the naturalism was a large part produced in the movement for paintings abstraction. The painters abandoned realism in the photography area because of the maintained importance of their art. This began the love-hate relationship between painting and photography. Artistic competition between them has lasted over 75 years, this is how photography affected painting.

    Portraiture was the most popular genre in the United States. Certain parts of the daguerreotype portraits were usually focused on lips, eyes, jewelry, and sometimes clothing. The Daguerreotype images we’re covered with glass and put in a frame or in a leather covered wood. Later on portrait became one of photography‘s most popular genres. Most models in portraiture were sitting against plain black grounds and put in defuse daylight, this would bring out detail within faces and clothing. Portraits display dignity.


A Century of Photography, 1840-1940 - National Portrait Gallery
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“Early Attempts at Colour.” Accessed May 7, 2021. https://www.britannica.com/technology/photography/Early-attempts-at-colour. 

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