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PDF (1.1mb)  Who is the artist? Roland Schneider What is the name of the artwork? Beach Scene (Children in Surf) What materials were used? Cyanotype Where is the artist from? United States When was the artwork made? 1930  Roland Schneider was born in San Diego in 1884, but was raised in Switzerland. He later came back to San Diego in 1919 after graduating from the University of Zurich with a law degree. He opened the Hotel Schneider on 8th Street and became an award winning amateur photographer.  In Beach Scene (Children in Surf), Schneider uses the cyanotype process to show children playing on the beach. One child plays with a beach ball while others play in the water. This image shows the types of photos he took in the 1920’s and early 1930’s, and also shows the people and every day life of San Diego. Cyanotypes, also known as photograms or sunprints, are photos that are typically made without a camera. This type of photograph was popular during the first half the 1800’s and was used by photographers for many different things, like recording plants. In order to create this particular image, Schneider photographed the beach scene with a camera to create a very large negative. In a negative, all of the light areas are dark and all of the dark areas are light. The negative was then placed on top of a light-sensitive paper and exposed to light. All of the images on the negative are transferred to the paper. Once the paper is processed, the lights and darks reverse to create the “correct” image. The word “cyan” refers to the color blue, which is why sunprints that are blue, like this one, are called cyanotypes. What is happening in this picture? What are the children doing? How many kids are playing?  Cyanotype - Also known as Sunprints or photograms. Cyanotypes are made without a camera. Objects are placed on top of a piece of light-sensitive paper and exposed to light. The areas covered by the objects are unexposed and remain light in color, while the areas around the objects are exposed to light and darken in color. Cyanotype refers to images that are produced on specially treated paper that turns a blue (cyan) color. Negative - An image where the light and dark colors are reversed. Light colors, such as white, appear dark, and dark colors, such as black, appear light. A negative is used to create the final photograph and many prints of the photograph can be made from the one negative. |
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Roland Schneider United States, 1884-1934 Beach Scene (Children in Surf) Cyanotype, ca. 1930 Collection Museum of Photographic Arts Gift of Warren and Margaret Coville 1997.019.28 © Museum of Photographic Arts  |
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1879 Thomas Edison invents the electric light 1884 Roland Schneider born in the United States 1888
1903 First box of Crayola crayons 1915 First long distance telephone call in the U.S. 1924
1930 Schneider creates (Beach Scene (Children in Surf) 1934 Roland Schneider dies 1939 World War II begins |
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