History of Photography

Daguerreotype was invented by a man named Daguerre. This was a great invention because it was a step up from the camera obscura. It was a great invention, but it did have some disadvantages. For example, it took way too long to be developed and it could not be duplicated so there was only one of every picture.

Calotype images were invented by William Fox Talbot. An image was exposed to light-sensitive paper, producing a paper negative. This was another great invention because these images could be duplicated an unlimited number of times.

This is an example of a photo made by using the Wet Collodion Process which was invented by a man named Archer. This had many advantages. For example, it was faster and the exposure time was reduced from half an hour to 2-3 seconds. It was also cheaper, but the photo had to be immediately exposed and developed while it was wet.

This is a photo made by the Dry Plate Process which was invented by Richard Maddox. Glass plates were coated in gelatin and it was still a step up in photography, but photography was still too complicated for the public. Photo emulsion is a layer of light sensitive material coated in a substrate. Eastman Kodak created the company Kodak from his last name. Instant photography happened a lot faster than the previous photography inventions.

This is the first photo of a human being by Louis Daguuerre.

Photo Strip

The Linotype Machine

The typewriter is very important to our history because without it, we might have never had the opportunity or idea to make computers, phones, etc. Typesetting is a composition of text material by typing. The Linotype was the greatest invention since moveable type because it was faster and more efficient and people started to see an improvement in business; for example, the newspaper. The Linotype keyboard, was very different from our keyboard today. It had the same letter sequence twice, one for uppercase and one for lower. It also had different color keys and it was sectioned off.

Shole’s typewriter

Merganthaler’s Linotype Machine

Operators using the Linotype Machine

 

Assignment #6

In this assignment we were supposed to use relief printing with a word of our choice, I chose the word broken and made it look “broken”.

The Gutenberg Press

The Gutenberg Press is a hand press where ink is rolled over a raised surface of moveable hand set block letters held within a wooden form.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Moveable type is a system of printing that uses moveable components to reproduce elements of document. Porous printing is the process of creating printed things using ink. Intaglio printing is where the area of the image to be printed is recessed into the surface of the printing plate and the recessed areas are filled with ink. Lithography is the transfer of a pattern to a photosensitive to an area using radiation or light. Offset lithography is the transfer of an image onto a printing plate. The image on the printing plate is not necessarily raised or recessed. Rollers place ink onto these printing plates and that is transfered to a rubber cylinder and that transfers the inked letter onto paper.

Offset lithography presses are a lot more efficient than the Gutenberg press. This is because our technology is much more advanced and has evolved into so much more.

CMYK is the process of four color printing. When something is printed, it first goes through a cyan printer, then a magenta printer, then a yellow printer, and finally a black printer and then it is complete.

Assignment #5

In this assignment, we had to make a modern version of an illuminated manuscript. We could use any lyrics or words we wanted and I used the song Beautiful Words by The Afters and stay with me.

 

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The Codex and the Illuminated Manuscript

The word codex derived from the latin word meaning”block of wood” because it looked like a block of wood. It evolved from the scroll to pages bound together, basically a book. Random access, in this context, means you can turn to any page in a book and get information, while sequential access means if you are looking for specific information, you have to start reading from the beginning until you find what you need. An illuminated manuscript is basically a decorated codex. Craftsmanship is how much work and effort you put into a design to make it look decent and presentable. It shows you are passionate about what you’re doing and people see if you put effort into your work, it’s worth looking at. The codex gained so much popularity because it was portable, it had random access, and it was compact and sturdy. Books are the most modern form of the codex that we still use today.

The Codex and the Illuminated Manuscript

an illuminated manuscript

a codex

a scroll

Current Communication Trends

In my opinion, virtually everything is being typed. Technology has improved so much to the point where no one is writing everything and we all have become so dependent on computers or phones, etc. Everything from school assignments to job resumes or applications are being technology turned it.

I’m not sure if this is good or bad at this point because I just think it’s more efficient. Advertising has changed because most people use technology to communicate. For example texting is cut short so ads are doing the same thing and cutting their words short, so it becomes more appealing and modern to people.

Ligatures

Ligatures are basically two letters glued together, They are believed to come about because people wanted to reduce the number of type pieces used on a typewriter. The most common ligature that’s still being used today is “&” which is a combination of the letters “e” and “t” and it stands for the word “and”.