Visual Spectacle

Engraving done in 1610 shows exhibits and a dissection taking place. 

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1751

Dissection Scene Gallery. Link here to see more images.

Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic), painting by Thomas Eakins, 1875

Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Ruysch, painting by Jan van Neck, 1683

Frederik Ruysch, 1638 - 1731, Dutch botanist and anatomist.

Reality TV, Joan Rivers undergoes plastic surgery. Image source link here.

Daguerreotype believed to be a re-enactment of the first demonstration of ether anesthesia, 1846. Source link here.

Photograph, 1902, Jefferson Medical College Hospital.

Junior Mint.

Photography History

Daguerreotype
Beginning of photography for the public.
1830's, France.
Such image making makes it way to the United States in the 1840's.
Iodine-sensitized silver plate and mercury vapor.
Image produced on copper plates.

Daguerreotype, 1837.
This is the first photographic image that was "fixed" (did not fade).
 

Louie Daguerre. 

B. 1787 - D. 1851, French

Photographer, Painter, Diorama Theatre

Long Exposure time - 30 minutes. 

Image source: 

http://upagallery.com/alternative-process/2014724photographys-parallel-histories/

Image Source:
http://librarycompany.org/catchingashadow/section1/index.htm

Oldest surviving photograph of United States President. 
John Quincy Adams, late 1840's.
Daguerreotype

William Henry Harrison was the
first United States President photographed. 
Daguerreotype made in 1841.
Image lost. 

ISAAC JEFFERSON (ca. 1775 – ca. 1850) age 72

Blacksmith, Blacksburg, Virginia , ca. 1847 

Isaac Jefferson was born on Thomas Jefferson’s plantation, Monticello, living there until 1822 when he was hired out to Jefferson’s son-in-law to build a threshing machine. Copyprint of daguerreotype. University of Virginia Library, Tracy W. McGregor Library of American History, Special Collections Department, Isaac Jefferson Collection. Reproduced by permission.

Source Link:

http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/maai/enslavement/text1/photosenslaved.pdf

Born into slavery, Frederick Douglass (1817–1895) escaped his bondage in 1838 and became the most persuasive orator for the cause of abolition, among other reformist causes.

Image Source Link:

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/282066

Daguerreotype, 1860.
Mirror like quality due to image formed
in a silver layer on a copper plate.

Daguerreotype
Image Source Link:
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/282046





Postmortem Photography
Post - Subsequent to, after
Mortem - Latin form of "death". 

Daguerreotype
First bishop of St. Paul, Minnesota, Joseph Cretin.
Source Link:
http://www.americandaguerreotypes.com/ch3.html

Image source link here.

19th Century

Deceased child with flowers. 

Source link for above image here.

Museum of Mourning Photography. Link here. Another source link here.

Carte de Visite

Patent 1850's Paris. 

Popular in United States by 1860.  

Small size, card stock, approx. 2" x 4".

Multiple images produced on paper, cheaper. 

Image Source Link:

https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5386913

Carte de visite, card collection. 

 Carte de visite similar to celebrity magazines -

Allow curious people greater access to public figures and popular icons.

Carte de visite 

Annie Oakley, 1860 - 1926

Famous markswoman, starting shooting game when father died and family destitute.

Carte de visite
Late 1880's. Image Source Link:
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/12/a-cultural-history-of-the-baseball-card/383784/
History Timeline for Baseball cards from ESPN. 
https://www.espn.com/espn/page2/story?page=snibbe/cards/060726

Carte de visite

Abraham Lincoln, 1865, photographed by Alexander Gardner. 

 Photograph on paper and mounted on card. 

 Approx. 2.5"x4". 

 Collected, traded and displayed.

First to use images of himself and family for political campaign. 

Link:

https://www.shapell.org/manuscript/civil-war-photographer-matthew-brady-1864-photo-of-abraham-lincoln-signed/

Civil War (1861-65)

Soldiers photograph themselves and carry images of loved one. 

Carte de visite

 Slave, Escaped from Louisiana 1863.

Image used to expose brutality of slavery.

Joined Union Army after Emancipation Proclamation, held rank of Sergeant.

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Drawing (not a photograph)

Source Link, Getty Images:

https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/the-whipping-of-phillis-a-young-north-carolina-freedwoman-news-photo/645161564?adppopup=true

Carte de visite
Sojourner Truth in 1864. 
Sold cards to support herself as a speaker.
Former slave, spoke to end slavery. 
Born a slave 1797. 
Death 1883. 
Source link here.

Carte de visite

Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1862

Born 1811, Died 1896, American

Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin

 Photographed by E and HT Anthony, NY.

Image Source Link:

https://fineart.ha.com/itm/photographs/carte-de-visite-studio-portrait-of-ute-chief-piah-holding-a-colt-pistol-circa-1865-length-4-in-width-2-1-2-in-piah-is-posed/a/643-48181.s?ic16=ViewItem-BrowseTabs-Auction-Archive-ThisAuction-120115

Stereoscope

Prior to emergence of photography in 1830's, 

used hand drawn images. 

Stereoscope.
Hand held.
Reaches high fashion around 1850 in London.
Fades out around 1920's.
For a brief history, link here.

Stereoscope on a stand.

Stereoscope card.
3D effect - sense of reality.

Egypt, estimated 1905.
 Mass virtual tourism.
Source link here.

Ladies looking at stereoscopic images. 1850's - 1860's.

Spotted Bear, 1880

Stereoscope images, World War I.  
Source link here.

Images of war sold for profit.

Spring 2021

Link to Chapter 18

https://visualculturelc.blogspot.com/2021/01/chapter-18.html

Without Sanctuary

Go to link below:

https://withoutsanctuary.org/

Julia Margaret Cameron

1815 - 1879, British

Illustrative images depicting characters from mythology, Christianity, and literature. 

Begins photographing in 1863 at age 48, 

Civil War in United States 1861 - 1865, 

1866?
Source link here.

The Sunflower
1871

Alice Liddell

Age 20, 1872

Parting of Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere 1874

Mug Shots

Police Mugshots, Australia, 1920's







Continued Use of Lincoln's Image

Icon.
16th President. Born 1809 - Died 1865.

1900, first American president on a coin.

Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC, USA, dedicated 1922.

Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, USA. 

60 foot sculptures of each figure (Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt, Lincoln). 

Completed 1941. 

Land originally belonged to the Lakota Sioux.

Mountain Dew commercial.

Rozerem Sleep Aid commercial

Lincoln's childhood home. Image source link here.

1916.