History of Photography Review

Johann Schulze

the guy who discovered that a mixture of chalk

Carl Scheele

He confirmed that the darkening of the silver salts was due to the light. He found that ammonia would fixed the image so it would not disappear.

Camera Obscura

An earlier optical device that projects the surrounding image on the back wall. The image would be upside down.

Was photography discovered or developed?

developed

Joseph Niepce

He is known for recording the very first image; rooftop of buidings

Louis Daguerre

He came up with the process called the Daguerreotype; copper plate; 1st practical method of photography

John Plumbe

He opened the very first chain of portrait galleries

William Fox Talbot

He came up the the processed called the Calotype; paper plate; not very durable;

John Herschel

He coined the term 'photography' for this newer process as well as coming up with using Hyposulphite of soda as a fixer. (Not the ammonia that Scheele used)

Anna Atkins

She was an experimental photography that was first a botanist. She came up with the cyanotype process of recording an image.

Frederick Scott Archer

He developed the process he called the wet-collodin process; used a glass plate; could not dry out until it developed.

Carte-de-vista

These wet-collodin images served as postcards back in their time.

Matthew Brady

He took photographs of the Civil War; spent his own money on this but dies penniless; today his negative are priceless

William Jackson

He is known for his images of the Yellowstone naational Park; because of his photographs

Edward Muybridge

He is known for capturing motion in successive photographs;

zoopraxiscoped

the circular device that Muybridge used to show his motion images.

George Eastman

The photographer who came up with the idea of using flexible film and the wet plate becoming dry; 100 images on the film; sold for $25; 'You press the button

Brownie camera

the $1.00 camera that Eastman came up with and was marketed to the hobbyist photographer.

Stereograph

This es a device for viewing a stereoscopic pair of separate images; depicted the left-eye and right-eye views to create a 3-D image.

Alfred Steiglitz

Known for straight photography and the photograph called "The Steerage".

Edward Steichen

He is known for his pictorailist appraoch to photography; believed the process should be manipulated if wanted.

Lewis Hine

He to images of the abuses of child labor that broght about a change in the child labor laws.

Man Ray

He is known for his experimental photography that he called Rayographs.

Dorothea Lange

She took images of farm families

Walker Evans

He is known as an American photojournalist and his work for the Farm Security Administration; documented the Great Depression

Margaret Bourke-White

She is a documentary photographer and is known for her images of Gandhi

Gordon Parks

Hes is known for the photograph titled "American Gothic; one of the first African-American photographers

Diane Arbus

She is known for photographing the people on the edges of our society;

Ansel Adams

He is known for the 9-zone system and his beautiful images of Yosimite National Park

What were the very first camera obscuras used for?

drawing and tracing