Rock On! - the Heckscher Museum of Art

EXHIBITION-RELATED VOCABULARY
photograph: An image created by light falling on a light-sensitive surface, usually
photographic film.
silver gelatin print: A traditional photographic print in which the final imaging
material is metallic silver suspended in a gelatin binder.
c-print or chromogenic print: Color print made from a color transparency or
negative. The print material has at least three emulsion layers of silver salts. Each layer
is sensitized to one of the three primary colors in the spectrum. During the first stage of
development a silver image is formed on each layer. Dye couplers are then added which
bond with the silver and form dyes of the appropriate colors in the emulsion layers.
pigment print: A print made from a process by which an image is digitally rendered
on an inkjet printer using archival pigment inks that have been laboratory tested to be
fade resistant for 150 years.
point of view or viewpoint: The position from which the subject of a work of art
is observed. (Examples: bird’s eye, ant’s eye)
portrait: A painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person,
in which the face and its expression is predominant.
rock ‘n’ roll: A genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black
rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western; “rock” is a generic term for the range
of styles that evolved out of rock ’n’ roll.
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