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Photography and archaeology: Going back in time
Sunday Times, Sri Lanka ^ | Sunday, September 21, 2008 | unattributed

Posted on 09/24/2008 8:25:21 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

Most historians consider 1839 as the year of the birth of photography. Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre's innovative method of image-making was placed before the French Academy of Sciences in the same year. The words ethnography and anthropology were also coined around the same time. It also signalled the beginnings of archaeology in a professional sense.

The potential of using photography as a recording tool in the service of archaeology, engineering, medicine, science and technology was quickly appreciated. As early as 1840, Alexander Gordon lectured to the Institute of Civil Engineers on the advantages to the profession resulting from the discovery made by Daguerre and others.

The system of copying not only the outline, but the tints of light and shade, united with accuracy and linear perspective, he contended, could easily be adapted to the purpose of the engineer, as well as to all those professions in which the art of drawing is used.

Almost on its heel came the discovery of the Calotype (derived from the Greek word-beautiful) by William Henry Fox Talbot which because of its positive-negative advantage was also a favourite technique. But never was it popular or superior to daguerreotype.

Both these techniques were superseded within a decade by the Albumen Negative and Collodion process, both of which used glass supports.

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Photography and archaeology: Going back in time

1 posted on 09/24/2008 8:25:22 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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Is the rich-hued Kodachrome era fading to black?

2 posted on 09/24/2008 8:26:53 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile hasn't been updated since Friday, May 30, 2008)
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3 posted on 09/24/2008 8:27:45 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile hasn't been updated since Friday, May 30, 2008)
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Thanks for the post! As a pro photographer (among other things) this is quite interesting.


4 posted on 09/24/2008 8:29:29 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (No longer holding my nose to vote - McCain/Palin 2008!)
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Photography plays an important part of my life

5 posted on 09/24/2008 8:32:56 PM PDT by Mr_Moonlight
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My pleasure, thanks for the replies!


6 posted on 09/24/2008 8:41:07 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile hasn't been updated since Friday, May 30, 2008)
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I have my Dad’s old Welta bellows camera in a display case.
F. Dekel-Munchen lens


7 posted on 09/24/2008 9:28:40 PM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: SunkenCiv
Is The Rich Hued Kodachrome Era Fading To Back?

Kodachrome
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8 posted on 09/24/2008 9:32:27 PM PDT by blam
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I’ve often remarked that we don’t live in the Information Age, but rather, in the Data Age. I think the information age now lies in our past, and analog photography was an important part.


9 posted on 09/25/2008 12:28:00 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile hasn't been updated since Friday, May 30, 2008)
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[snip] now defunct US magazine known for its prize-winning photos [end]


10 posted on 09/25/2008 5:35:11 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile hasn't been updated since Friday, May 30, 2008)
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