Quiz 2 Flashcards

After the Civil War:

• Many trained photographers needed work (trained with Brady).

• Got jobs shooting for Government and companies:

WERE HIRED TO WHAT?

WERE HIRED TO:

• Explore unsettled territories.

• Document the building of the Railroad tracks.

Describe Frontier Photographers

Frontier Photographers:

Started before Civil War (Daguerreotypists):

• Created a document of the American frontier wilderness.

• PRE arrival of man.

Presentation Picture 1:

Presentation Picture 2:

Photography changed what?

Photography changed how we see the world.

Who was this person?

Eadweard Muybridge (1877-1878)

Facts about Eadweard Muybridge (1877-1878)

Grandfather of Cinema:

•Animal locomotion

•Motion-stop motion

•zoopraxiscope in 1879

**Captured motion on camera he built

**First motion picture-movie

Eadweard Muybridge….

• Started as a frontier photographer.

• Loved nature.

Photo by Timothy H. O'Sullivan

“Valley of the Yosemite”-Eadweard Muybridge

Picture of Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park.

"Muybridge on Contemplation Rock" or "Self-Portrait on Contemplation Rock"

What is this painting of?

Théodore Géricault, The Epsom Derby, 1821.

Describe this image.

Leland Stanford Junior on his Pony Gypsy Phases of a Stride by a Pony While Cantering 1879.

Describe this image:

Animal locomotion, Collotype 1887

Describe this image.

Eadward Muybridge, “Sallie Gardner,” owned by Leland Stanford, running at 1.40 gait over the Palo Alto track, 19th, June 1878.

From what month and year is this image?

October,1878

Explain this image:

Zoopraxiscope 1879

A frame from Eadweard Muybridge's groundbreaking 1878 photographic study, often known as "Sallie Gardner at a Gallop" or "The Horse in Motion".