"Photography | 1839 - 1960's AD"

Photography

1.) Until the 1880s, how were news stories illustrated?

Engravings and wood cuts

2.) What is a camera obscura?

An optical device that projects images of its surroundings onto a screen

3.) Post an example of a camera obscura.

4.) How did scholars and artists utilize the camera obscure?

It was used to observe solar eclipses and phases of the moon

5.) From where did the photographic camera develop?

The portable box version of the camera obscura

6.) Who first used the term "photography"? Where was is derived from?

7.) Post an the first photograph.

8.) Who is credited with making the first successful photograph?

9.) Post an example of a Daguerreotype image.

10.) Who invented the Daguerreotype process? What are the advantages and disadvantages of the process?

11.) Post an example of a Calotype image.

12.) Who invented the Calotype process? What are the advantages and disadvantages of the process?

13.) Post an example of a Wet Collodion Process image.

14.) Who invented the Wet Collodion process? What are the advantages and disadvantages of the process?

15.) Post an example of a Dry Plate Process image.

16.) Who invented the Dry Plate process? What are the advantages and disadvantages of the process?

17.) Who is George Eastman? What company did he establish?

18.) Post an example of The Kodak Camera from 1888.

19.) In 1888, he produced a camera that use his flexible roll film. How did he make this camera/photography accessible to the public?

20.) What is Edwin Land best known for? What company did he establish?

21.) Post a photo of the first Polaroid camera.

22.) How long did the first Polaroid camera take to produce a photo?

23.) What was Eadweard Muybridge known for?

24.) Post a photo of the Zoopraxiscope.

25.) What is the Zoopraxiscope?

26.) Post a photo of Muybridge's horse in motion.

27.) How did Muybridge settle the debate and photograph a horse in motion?

28.) In 1880s, the development of the motion picture camera allowed this?

29.) Post a photo of a motion picture projector.

30.) What is a motion picture projector?