Hannavy_RT72353_C000v1.indd

660 enough to hire a photography assistant, a “Miss Mann,” it still was not enough to satisfy their aspirations. Having interrup ...

661 professional studio at Rock House in Edinburgh, where he was joined by Hill within a month. Hill and Adamson were in partner ...

662 HILLERS, JOHN K. (1843–1925) German born Hillers settled in America in 1852. In 1871 Hillers was a recently discharged U.S A ...

663 The fi rm was founded by Robert Hills (1821–82), born in Lambeth, South London, who started his career with the china & ...

664 Photography in Oxford. In Henry William Taunt. The millenary of Oxford—its story for a thousand years. Oxford: Taunt, (1912) ...

665 refl ected a deeper hesitation between the notions of invention and discovery, i.e. between the photograph as mechanical pro ...

666 Camera and the Pencil (1864). As many recent studies have shown, the professional arena indeed included, through its practic ...

667 areas other than Western Europe and North America, such as Asia (and especially the Middle East), Japan and China, South Ame ...

668 culture was generally reluctant to view photographs as anything other than mechanical artefacts with utilitarian functions. ...

669 ments in European culture as a whole. It was only the confl uence of these developments in the early nineteenth century that ...

670 unsuccessful.... Nothing but a method of preventing the unshaded part of the delineation from being coloured by exposure to ...

671 paratus tells us something about how photography came to be realised but not much about why. To explain the motivation behin ...

672 his congenital shortsightedness; a more distinct vision was the result. Through such simple experiments as these, the human ...

673 picture of the world but, through photography’s harness- ing of the “natural” laws of chemistry and physics, also true to na ...

674 Daguerre. In 1822, two years before he commenced his photographic experiments, Daguerre and Charles Marie Bouton opened thei ...

675 of heliography, along with Daguerre’s improvements to the camera obscura. By this date, Niépce had begun using iodine vapors ...

676 photomechanical printing would not be pursued seri- ously for another decade. These early attempts, along with silver-salt b ...

677 Gernsheim, Alison and Helmut, L.J.M. Daguerre: The History of the Diorama and the Daguerreotype, 2nd rev. ed., New York: Dov ...

678 March 1840. He was able to reduce exposure times by using an ingeniously designed camera, in which a con- cave mirror replac ...

679 It was quickly recognised that a public who trav- elled little and were used to seeing strange and exotic foreign lands sole ...