Black & White Photography Guidebook

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12 The development of photography abstract photography editorial opinion herein is that of the reviewer
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10 THE ORIGINS OF PHOTOGRAPHY
12 THE DEVELOPMENT OF PHOTOGRAPHY
14 INTRODUCTION TO BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY
16 BLACK AND WHITE CORE CONCEPTS
View from the window at Le Gras -
believed to be the oldest surviving
camera photograph, taken around
1826-1827 .
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The origins of
photography
A SMALL HISTORY LESSON ABOUT HOW THE BLACK AND
WHITE MEDIUM WAS CONCEIVED
You cannot talk about black and pioneers a debt of thanks for bringing us
white photography without our beloved world of photography.
talking a little about the history The first recorded attempt to unite light
of photography itself. The two are captured on light-sensitive material is
inextricably linked because all we Thomas Wedgwood circa 1800. Although
had to begin with, at the dawn of the it appears the attempt to capture light
medium, was black and white. It goes via a camera obscura on treated white
without saying that the equipment and leather or paper was unsuccessful, it paved
techniques we have today are a far cry the way for Nicéphore Niépce in the mid
from those early days when the pioneers 1820s. His attempt was very crude and the
of photography were experimenting exposure took several days. His associate
with how to collect light, light-sensitive at the time was one Louis Daguerre,
materials and equipment to capture and who went on to create what is generally
focus the image. held to be the first publicly announced
The story of black and white system, the daguerreotype. Unlike the
photography, although cited as beginning many days required by Niépce’s process,
sometime in the 1800s, actually goes a daguerreotype could be exposed in
back much further in history to the days minutes, with much greater clarity in the
of Aristotle around 384-322 BC. Aristotle final image on metal-based materials.
understood the principle of the camera Henry Fox Talbot was soon to compete
obscura (dark chamber), although at the with Daguerre’s system through his own
time there was no known method to ‘fix’ an paper-based calotype negative and salt
image cast by the camera, and so create a print process.
permanent record. As the development of the processes
From the earliest principles that continued and further innovations were
brought the world the camera obscura, made, camera exposures were reduced
and the observable phenomena that from days to hours, then to minutes,
certain substances were visibly altered seconds, and eventually fractions of
by exposure to light, the course of seconds. Black and white media became A French manufactured
photographic endeavour has been well more and more accessible to the public, Susse Frères Daguerreotype
camera, circa 1839.
documented and we owe those early and the rest is history. (cid:81)
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