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• fixing the image in a warm solution of common salt (later sodium sulfite
was used.)
Daguerreotypes
SINGLE UNIQUE POSITIVE IMAGE
On metal plates (aquatint engravings to publish)
=popular in France, Germany, & America
Lots of daguerreotypists —process given freely (names not always known) (esp. in America)
Subject matter: portraits
Linear/sharp detail
Like scientific illustration
More “objective”
Calotypes
NEGATIVEPOSITIVE, REPRODUCIBLE
Paper; easier to publish
=mostly in England and France (NOT in America)
Not that many calotypists—due to patents and difficulty with process
Landscapes & architectural views
painterly/tonal masses: read the photo in masses of light and dark
tend to leave more to the imagination
more “subjective”
George Eastman