Photojournalism Important figures notes

Photojournalism Important figures notes

Camera Obscura

Jayden and Adriana

400 bc

Light from pin hole into dark room

Alhazen believed to be first inventor

Very first camera

Box with hole

Original intent to study eclipses and

for artists to have reference photo

Louis Daguerro

France

daguerreotype

Iodine sensitive plate

Engraving with chemicals

Took 30 seconds

William Henry Fox Talbot

Positive and negative of pictures

Printed on paper not metal

Negatives can be made over and over again

Gardner  and Matthew

Took pics of dead bodies

Controversial pictures

In active battle scene

Moving things after the fact of event for more effect

Posed photos aren’t truth

Muybridge

Fast shutter speed

First motion picture

Carol Szathmari

First war photographer

Realistic look at the front lines

Told a story

First photojournalism

Dorothea Lange

1895

Documentary photographer

Farm security administration

Hired to photograph immigrant worker crisis

George Eastman

Photography accessible to the public

Kodak camera

Widely available to public

Final words my work here is done

1950s