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09/11/2002 10:24:24 AM · #1 |
Who coined the term "Photography" and when?
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09/11/2002 10:39:18 AM · #2 |
Originally posted by jmsetzler:
Who coined the term "Photography" and when?
Bah...this challenge is nothing for research girl. :-)
The word, derived from the Greek photos (“light”) and graphein (“to draw”), was first used by the scientist Sir John F.W. Herschel in 1839.
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09/11/2002 10:52:12 AM · #3 |
Very good... you win a gold star :) Was that too easy?
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09/11/2002 11:35:59 AM · #4 |
| Well, I'm a research geek. :-D Really should have been my profession. I think it was a great question...and something new I learned today. I found the answer at Britannica.com, by the way. :-) |
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09/11/2002 11:36:48 AM · #5 |
Well, since that question has been answered, I'd like to post a new one :).
In what year was this photo taken? Any guesses?
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09/11/2002 11:44:30 AM · #6 |
Originally posted by lisae:
Well, since that question has been answered, I'd like to post a new one :).
In what year was this photo taken? Any guesses?
1932?
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09/11/2002 11:52:52 AM · #7 |
I'll guess 1892.
sjgleah
Originally posted by jmsetzler:
Originally posted by lisae:
[i]Well, since that question has been answered, I'd like to post a new one :).
In what year was this photo taken? Any guesses?
1932?
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09/11/2002 11:54:22 AM · #8 |
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09/11/2002 11:56:16 AM · #9 |
I have no way of looking up this particular photo... I feel confident that It can't be pre-1932 :)
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09/11/2002 12:04:16 PM · #10 |
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09/11/2002 12:05:42 PM · #11 |
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09/11/2002 12:08:23 PM · #12 |
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09/11/2002 12:23:01 PM · #13 |
Originally posted by konador:
tomorrow
woah. that's heavy.
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09/11/2002 12:27:33 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by lisae:
Well, since that question has been answered, I'd like to post a new one :).
In what year was this photo taken? Any guesses?
2002.
-Terry
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09/11/2002 12:38:14 PM · #15 |
Well, I was going to make myself wait at least an hour before giving the answer, but I'm too impatient :)
sjgleah is actually the closest. The photo is "Wooden Chapel on the Site of Old Belozersk", taken by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii in 1909!
My father has a book of Prokudin-Gorskii's photos, which fascinated me when I was a kid... sometimes scared me just thinking of how eerily real they made Russia in the early 1900s seem to me! There are colour portraits of Tolstoy in that book. It was great to find out last year that there's an online exhibition of his photography now right here. Go and peruse that site and be absolutely amazed!!!
The technique he used actually involved separate glass plates being exposed for each colour. The photo I posted, and the others on that site, have been printed very recently from the plates and colour corrected a bit digitally, so it's sneaky to just show that photo and say it's from 1909. Still, the ones in my dad's book (which is now out of print and quite rare) look just as beautiful and clear, although in some places the plates don't quite match up properly.
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09/11/2002 12:43:08 PM · #16 |
| I feel enlightened... Simply amazing work. Thanks for posting lisae! |
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09/11/2002 12:47:22 PM · #17 |
Originally posted by lisae:
Well, I was going to make myself wait at least an hour before giving the answer, but I'm too impatient :)
sjgleah is actually the closest. The photo is "Wooden Chapel on the Site of Old Belozersk", taken by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii in 1909!
My father has a book of Prokudin-Gorskii's photos, which fascinated me when I was a kid... sometimes scared me just thinking of how eerily real they made Russia in the early 1900s seem to me! There are colour portraits of Tolstoy in that book. It was great to find out last year that there's an online exhibition of his photography now right here. Go and peruse that site and be absolutely amazed!!!
The technique he used actually involved separate glass plates being exposed for each colour. The photo I posted, and the others on that site, have been printed very recently from the plates and colour corrected a bit digitally, so it's sneaky to just show that photo and say it's from 1909. Still, the ones in my dad's book (which is now out of print and quite rare) look just as beautiful and clear, although in some places the plates don't quite match up properly.
Wow, this one just grabbed me. Thanks for posting it, Lisa!
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