history of photography

History of PhotographyStudy Questions

Scheele discovered that ____ would stop the darkening of exposed silver nitrate.• ammonia

Define photography.• Light writing

____ were added to the camera obscura to make smaller devices and sharper images.• lenses

What did the first camera obscura look like?• A small room

Who invented the camera?• Several different inventors

How did Giovanni Pattista Della Porta describe the camera?• An artist-tracing tool

What is John Hershel credited with?• First to use the word photography

_____ discovered that silver nitrate tarnished when it was exposed to light.• Shulze

What do Callotypes produce?• A negative image

Who was 2 weeks late in announcing his photographic process called callotype?• Talbot

What is Da Guerre credited with?• The first practical photographic process

Who took the first existing photograph?• Niepce

Who was unsuccessful in producing images on pottery?• Thomas Wedgewood

What are the 3 parts of all types of cameras?• Lens• Shutter• body

What happened in 1826?• First photograph was taken

The French government made ____ available for free.• Daguerreotype

What process cannot be copied?• Daguerreotype

Kodak was ____ first camera.• Eastman’s

How was the dry plate process better than the wet plate process?• It could be developed at a later time

What process was made on tin?• tintype

_____ uses an under developed negative on glass and is mounted on black paper to appear as a positive image.• ambrotype

What needed a patent to use it?• callotype

What process used egg whites?• Albumin print

Why was wet plate called that?• Needed to be developed while emulsion was still

wet

Why was tintype so popular?• Unbreakable and cheaper

What 2 things did Eastman invent?• Film on a flexible celluloid base• First camera to use roll film

Which group of artists benefited first by the modern camera?• Impressionists

______ was a main source of entertainment during Victorian Era.• Stereoscopic travel images

Which part of war couldn’t be photographed because there was a long exposure time?• action

Who was the first president to be photographed?• Abraham lincoln

What was the first war to be photographed?• Crimean

Who photographed the Union side of the Civil War?• Alexander Gardner

What was the reason for establishing the National Park System?• US geological survey teams

What was the subject of Muybridge’s pictures that lead to motion studies?• horses

Fine art is intended to inspire ____.• change

_____ is intended to impartially record an event.• Photo journalism

What type of photography is intended for personal viewing?• snapshot

What photography is meant to create a visual response?• Social document