How Did The Industrial Revolution Changed Visual Communication?
William Talbot, Lord Charles Stanhope, Friedrich Koenig were innovative men who helped with technological advances during the Industiral Revolution. Between the 18th and 19th century, the Industrial Revolution permitted innovative creation which dramatically changed visual communications inevitably. The transformation from rural and agricultural socities to heavily industrial and urbanized communities allowed improvements in photography with the gradual intorduction to Daguerrotypes and Calotypes. Also, typography saw growth in bold type faces, and san serifs. Lastly, printing remarkably impacted mass production with the development from letter press printers to fast steam powered printing press. The Industrial Revolution opened doors for
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William Talbot, an Englishman, coated paper with silver chloride and exposed it to light thru a camera obscura to produce a negative image. An example of the Calotype’s first photo negative was of a window panel onlooking the sky. The image was converted to a positive image, by encasing the negative image with sensitized paper in a glass contact print, then exposed to ultraviolet light. Moreover, the exposure times were shorter than the Daguerrotype process, Daugerre’s exposure took hours and Talbot’s exposure took minutes. The Calotype process allowed mass production of images during the Industrial Revolution, therefore, allowed the Middle Class to experience photographic portraits, which before was only limited to the rich and privileged.
Both Daguerre and Talbot allowed photography to overthrow drawing and painting, in American, 3 million daguerrotypes portraits were produced of commonplace objects of the Middle Class life. Also, photography captures a moment in time and documents unknown places; consequently, motion, color, and instantaneous photograhy developed overtime. Therefore, regards to photography, the Daguerrotypes and Calotypes were revolutionary during 1760 to 1840, and both processes changed the nature of visual
William Talbot, an Englishman, coated paper with silver chloride and exposed it to light thru a camera obscura to produce a negative image. An example of the Calotype’s first photo negative was of a window panel onlooking the sky. The image was converted to a positive image, by encasing the negative image with sensitized paper in a glass contact print, then exposed to ultraviolet light. Moreover, the exposure times were shorter than the Daguerrotype process, Daugerre’s exposure took hours and Talbot’s exposure took minutes. The Calotype process allowed mass production of images during the Industrial Revolution, therefore, allowed the Middle Class to experience photographic portraits, which before was only limited to the rich and privileged.
Both Daguerre and Talbot allowed photography to overthrow drawing and painting, in American, 3 million daguerrotypes portraits were produced of commonplace objects of the Middle Class life. Also, photography captures a moment in time and documents unknown places; consequently, motion, color, and instantaneous photograhy developed overtime. Therefore, regards to photography, the Daguerrotypes and Calotypes were revolutionary during 1760 to 1840, and both processes changed the nature of visual