photo history part1

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a brief history of

photography


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a brief history of

photography

part 1:

where didphotography come

from?


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photography -


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photography - light


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photography - light +


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photography - light writing +


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photography - light writing +

drawing with light


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photography -

camera -

light writing +

drawing with light


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photography -

camera -

light writing +

drawing with light

room, or chamber - anenclosed space


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camera obscura -

photography -

camera -

light writing +

drawing with light



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camera obscura -

photography -

camera -

light writing +

drawing with light


an enclosed

space that is dark


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(China, c. 470 - c. 391 BCE)

Mo Di, or Mozi


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(China, c. 470 - c. 391 BCE)

earliest known mention of basicphotography concepts:

Mo Di, or Mozi


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(China, c. 470 - c. 391 BCE)

Mozi discovered that while in a darkened room, a

tiny opening in one wall projected an upside-down

image of the scene outside onto the opposite wall.

He referred to this as locked treasure room.


Mo Di, or Mozi


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(China, c. 470 - c. 391 BCE)

Mozi discovered that while in a darkened room, a

tiny opening in one wall projected an upside-down

image of the scene outside onto the opposite wall.

He referred to this as locked treasure room.


Mo Di, or Mozi


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Aristotle (Greece, 384 - 322 BCE)


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was sitting under a tree during a solar eclipse,and noticed that each gap in the leaves

projected a mini-eclipse onto the ground


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a solar eclipse is when the moon passes

between the Sun and the Earth - so that

from the Earth, the moon looks like its

covering up the sun




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covering up the sun




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covering up the sun




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Aristotle

afterwards, he experimented letting light shine

through different shapes of holes, but noticed

that it always projected the sun as a circle (like

it is in real life)

(Greece, 384 - 322 BCE)


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Aristotle




it is in real life)

(Greece, 384 - 322 BCE)

just likehow during a solar eclipse, evencircular holes will project eclipse-shaped light


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Aristotle




it is in real life)

(Greece, 384 - 322 BCE)



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Aristotle




it is in real life)

(Greece, 384 - 322 BCE)



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Aristotle




it is in real life)

(Greece, 384 - 322 BCE)



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)/.-,%*(')'%*(')'%$#"!Alhazen

Abu Ali al-Hasan Ibn al-Haitham

(Iraq, 965 - c. 1040 CE)


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)/.-,%*(')'%*(')'%$#"!Alhazen

extensively studied light & optics, built the first

(official) camera obscura, & scientificallyproved that light travels in straight lines -


(Iraq, 965 - c. 1040 CE)


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)/.-,%*(')'%*(')'%$#"!Alhazen




(Iraq, 965 - c. 1040 CE)

which is whyprojected images are

upside down


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)/.-,%*(')'%*(')'%$#"!Alhazen




(Iraq, 965 - c. 1040 CE)

which is whyprojected images are

upside down


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interestingly, Alhazen was also the first to

realize the modern understanding of vision:

light (for example, from the sun) reflects off ofthings, our eyes interpret that reflected light,

and thats how we are able to see them


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before this, it was actually the accepted belief

that the human eye sent out rays which

scanned objects


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scanned objects


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scanned objects


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scanned objects


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scanned objects


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scanned objects


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scanned objects

L d d Vi i


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Leonardo da Vinci (Italy, 1452-1519)

L d d Vi i


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Leonardo da Vinci

regarded the camera obscura as an artificial eye

was the first to realize that since the image seen in the

camera obscura was upside-down, the HUMAN eye might

see that way as well

(Italy, 1452-1519)

L d d Vi i


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Leonardo da Vinci





(Italy, 1452-1519)

da Vinci thought that maybe the human eye used lenses

to flip our vision right side up

L d d Vi i


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Leonardo da Vinci





(Italy, 1452-1519)



at this time, lenses (from the Latin word for lentil) were

already being widely used as magnifiers and vision-

correcting spectacles

L d d Vi i


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Leonardo da Vinci





(Italy, 1452-1519)






L d d Vi i


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Leonardo da Vinci





(Italy, 1452-1519)






lens

Leonardo da Vinci (I l 1452 1519)


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Leonardo da Vinci





(Italy, 1452-1519)






lens

Leonardo da Vinci (It l 1452 1519)


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Leonardo da Vinci





(Italy, 1452-1519)






lens

lentils


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from 1550 through 1569, other Italian scientists followed

da Vincis lead, adding lenses - as well as mirrors - to both

FOCUS the image, and CORRECT the image (make it

right-side up)


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right-side up)

Johannes Kepler (Germany, 1571-1630)


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right-side up)

came up with the name camera obscura and also

was the first to invent one that was portable and

could be taken from place to place



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right-side up)





(also, he was the first to guess that it was the BRAIN that

flipped our vision right-side up - rather than lenses/

mirrors that are used in a camera or camera obscura)


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right-side up)







mirrors that are used in a camera or camera obscura)


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right-side up)







mirrors that are used in a camera or camera obscura)this is Kepler (a crater on the

moon) which was named after him

t thi i t h t l i g thi


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so at this point, what are people using this

camera obscura thing FOR?



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Daniel Barbaro (Italy, 1514 - 1570)



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Close all the shutters and doors until no light enters the camera

obscura except through the lens, and opposite hold a piece of paper

which can move forward and backward until the scene appears in

sharpest detail. There on the paper you will see the whole view as itreally is, with its distances, its colours and shadows and motion, the

clouds, the water twinkling, the birds flying. By holding the paper

steady you can trace the whole perspective with a pen, shade it and

delicately colour it from nature.


so at this point hat are people sing this


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so at this point what are people using this


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Giovanni Battista della Porta (Italy, c. 1535 - 1615)



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Giovanni Battista della Porta (Italy, c. 1535 - 1615)

wrote that the camera obscura made it possible for anyone ignorant

in the art of painting to draw with a pencil or pen the image of any

object whatsoever.

f ti t h J h V (N th l d 1632


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many famous artists such as Johannes Vermeer (Netherlands, 1632 -

1675) likely used the camera obscura to compose paintings

f ti t h J h V (N th l d 1632


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many famous artists such as Johannes Vermeer (Netherlands, 1632 -

1675) likely used the camera obscura to compose paintings


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