Genius 1

-What is photography’s “true genius”?
It is the way a photograph can make us react towards a particular image and how it can intrigue us, one image can create a range of emotions, which is incredible considering a photograph is a reflection of life.

-Name a proto-photographer : Henry Fox Talbot

-In the 19th century, what term was associated with the daguerreotype? "Mirror with a memory"

-What is the vernacular? It is similar in a way to amateur photography as it's photography in its everyday form, art and professional photography would not fall into this genre.

-How do you “Fix the Shadows”? It was about fixing the image on the surface you had just printed enabling you from allowing the image to develop any further or losing the image because of this.

-What is the “carte de visite”?
A carte de viste is a small photograph of a person that has been taken almost like a formal portrait and are very posed, these photographs are often swapped between friends & family. The process itself would usually allow the photographer to take eight portraits taken at a time and then allowing the customer to have eight photographs.

-Who was Nadar and why was he so successful?
Nadar was a french artist, he was one of the first photographers to give his work a signiture style, his work was also inspired by other types of art such a painting, as at the time photography wasn't necssiarely considered an art form.

-What is pictorialism?
A style of photography that was popular in the 19th and 20th centuary, it became a popular movement due to the rise of the kodak brand, it made photography available to everybody, and focused more on the moment/the aesthetics rather than the art form and process of photography.