Mary Ellen Mark: Investigative Workbook

Introduction to Photography
Investigative Workbook
Session One
Lara SmithProject summaryMary Ellen Mark
Mary Ellen Mark was known for her skills as a Photojournalist/Documentary Photographer, portraitist photographer, and advertising photographer. She had 18 collections of her work published. She also had work exhibited at galleries and published in Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, New York Times and Life.

Her accolades include three Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards, three fellowships from the National Endowments for the Arts, the Outstanding Contribution Photography Award from the World Photography Organisation and the 2014 Lifetime Achievement in Photography Award from the George Eastman House.

Mary Ellen Mark was born

This photograph has beautiful composition, exposure, and focus, but it 's story has a disappointing ending. It perfectly portrays the moment, permanently freezing it and making it last forever. Early Types of Photography
What is a camera obscura?
A darkened box or room with a convex aperture, hole or lens that projects the image of an external object onto a screen or wall inside. It was a major forerunner to the modern day camera.
How does it work?
The hole in the wall allows light through but flips it horizontally to be projected onto the wall or screen on the wall opposite.
What is a daguerreotype?
The daguerrotype was the first publicly announced process of photography. To make a daguerrotype, the daguerrotypist would have to polish a sheet of silver plated copper to a mirror finish and then treat it with fumes to make the surface light sensitive. To take a daguerrotype, the sheet would need to be exposed in a camera for as long as was guessed to be necessary (from just a few seconds to minutes depending on how well lit the subject was). For the sheet to be processed, it had to be treated with mercury vapour, then treat it with liquid chemical treatment to remove the light sensitivity, rinse, dry and seal the easily ruined result behind glass.
What are the strengths of a

How is a daguerrotype fixed?
After being developed in a mercury fume box, sodium thiosulfate is used to remove the remaining unexposed silver compound. Then the plate is guided with gold chloride after being rinsed with distilled water.
Who made the first image?
The earliest known surviving photograph made with a camera was taken by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1826/7.
What is an albumen print? What is an ambrotype?
An albumen print was the first commercially available method of producing a photographic print from a negative from a negative.

An ambrotype was also known as a collodion positive in the UK, was a positive photograph on glass made by a form of the wet plate collodion process.
What is a calotype?
A calotype was William Fox Talbot 's second photographic process, made by using high quality writing paper iodised with silver nitrate and potassium iodide.
How is a calotype made?
The treated paper then formed the negative when exposed in a camera after a coat of a solution of gallo-nitrate of silver. The paper was the exposed through the camera for a time between ten seconds and tens of