Photography History 1901-1950

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 January 1, 1864 - July 13, 1946

Became the "patron saint of straight photography."

In 1902 he became a founder of the photo-secession, which is a group of avant-garde artists. In 1905 founded and directed the Photo-Secession Gallery He first produced a kind of romanticized pictures of an Impressionistic style, he would later move over to realism He made a distinct and influential contribution to the development of new styles of photography

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Inventor of the UR-Leica also known as the first 35mm camera Compact, could be fitted with a high quality lens that allowed photographers to work in outdoor settings with available light. Always ready to capture life and action from any angle with the photographer able to remain unnoticed.

Photographs no longer had to be confined to stiff artistic poses.

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originally resulted from a merger of three small firms in Japan 1881

known for their microscopes, cine cameras, binoculars, surveying instruments, astronomical telescopes and optical measuring instruments. 1937 began marketing 50mm f/3.5 lens for 35mm cameras, and a 50mm f/2.0 lens followed NIKKOR lenses were used in Canon cameras until 1948, when Nikon created its first camera.

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1890-1976 participated in the cubist, Dadaist, and Surrealist art movements created a new photographic art which emphasized chance effects and surprising juxtapositions (side by side) "Rayographs" -made by placing objects directly on photographic paper and exposing them to the light (cameraless prints) Influenced primarily by Stieglitz
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created in 1932 Members include: Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Willard Van Dyke, John Paul Edwards, Consuelo Kanaga, Sonya Noskowiak, Henry Swift, Edward Weston F/64 refers to the smallest aperture setting on a large format camera The object of the Group is to present frequently shows what it considers the best contemporary photography of the West.

The group is not pretending to cover the entirety of photography nor trying to depreciate opinions of photographers not included in the group
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Ansel Adams

Edward Weston

Imogen Cunningham

Willard Van Dyke Consuelo Kanaga Sonya Noskowiak

1904-1980 He was a famous British Portrait Photographer Worked for Vogue magazine for over 50 years Beaton did many portraits of famous people from the 1950s. For example, Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe and Frank Sinatra.

Also as an official photographer for the second, world war.

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 1907 first successful color film using an additive process Two brothers,Antoine and Louis Lumiere, made the Autochrome process known. This process included a glass plate with a layer of tiny bits of potato starch that were dyed orange, green, and violet. Then a light-sensitive emulsion was added Light would hit the emulsion after passing through the colored starch. The emulsion behind each grain was exposed only by the light from the scene that was the same color as that grain. The result after the development was a full-color transparency.
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Antoine Lumiere

Louis Lumiere

Harold Edgerton inventor of the electronic flash used in photography. Best known for using this flash to freeze time, and capture motions that occur in a fraction of a second.

He wanted to photograph only a motor.During a research he needed to see how a motor flexed as it rotated. A regular camera showed only a blur because by the time the shutter opened and closed the motor had turned hundreds of times To solve this problem Edgerton darkened the room, opened the shutter permanently, and exposed the film quickly with his flash.
With this invention He froze the moment when a bat dented a baseball, he captured for the first time in mid-flight the wings of a hummingbird, and in perhaps his most famous photo he caught a drop of milk splashing off a table.
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January 1934 Fujifilm founded.

By 1938, Fuji is making cameras and lenses in addition to film. Fujifilm introduced the world's first disposable 35mm camera the QuickSnap.

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C41 generic term for all color negative processing. Many photographers think that all C41 film developed in any lab will always have the same results this is wrong - diverse brands of developer, bleach and fix affect the color mask of the film also blix (bleach/fix combined) will leave silver on the film, which will appear as grainy on the print.

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