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- capturing light
- exposure
- shutter speed (time)
- aperture (focal length/aperture size)
- sensitivity
- focus
- Camera Obscura
- ancient device
- dark room
- tool for portrait painters
- tracing tool
- developed the tool for their own destruction
- tool for long exposure photography
- Camera Lucida
- 19th century
- prisim
- improved tool for portrait painters
- Photosensitive Chemicals
- could “record” the light
- Johann Schulze, 1727
- Salts darken in open air
- silver compound darkened when exposed to light
- Daguerrotype
- Louis Daguerre, 1839
- French painter and theatrical producer
- camera and portrait painter
- promoter of his new photographic device
- copper plate
- covered in silver
- exposed to iodine fumes
- single photographic plate
- Calotype
- William Fox Talbot
- English botanist
- plants
- contact studies against photosensitive surface
- calotype
- silver chloride
- negative exposure
- contact positives
- reproducible photo prints
- long exposures
- slow cameras
- static objects
- shorter exposures
- faster cameras
- action shots
- Talbot’s sister playing harp
- Wet Collodion Process
- Ambrotype
- printed on paper
- multiple copies from a camera
- Tintype
- direct positive on thin iron
- single copy from the plate
- <http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/g1663/sundance-tintyp
e-portraits–2014/>
- Dry Plate Photography
- Richard Maddox, 1871
- silver bromide
- gelatin process
- simpler than wet collodion process
- George Eastman
- Eastman Film and Dry Plate Company, 1879
- <http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/1_early/1_early_photography-pro
cesses-dry_plates.htm>
- Magic Lantern Shows
- travel photographs
- colored slides
- audiences would pay to hear about distant locations
- War Photography
- Crimean War
- 1855
- Roger Fenton and James Robertson
- <http://life.time.com/history/crimea-where-war-photography-was
-born/>
- Indian Mutiny
- US Civil War
- 1861–1865
- Matthew Brady
- <https://www.flickr.com/photos/usnationalarchives/sets/7215762
2549882756/>
- Everyday Life: Street Photography
- John Thomson
- Jacob Riis
- Danish-American photographer and journalist
- book: How the Other Half Lives (1890)
- documented poverty
- reform: tenement conditions
- <http://collections.mcny.org/Explore/Highlights/Jacob%20A.%20R
iis/>
- Lewis Hine
- American sociologist and photographer
- documented powerless
- immigrants arriving at Ellis Island
- child labor
- <http://education.eastmanhouse.org/discover/kits/kit.php?i
d=8>
- reform: child labor laws
- US Farm Relocation Administration
- New Deal, 1935–1943
- documented lives of displaced farmers
- famous photographers of 20th century
- Photo Printing
- photoengraving
- woodcuts
- letterpress (for type)
- halftone
- Amateur Photography
- Kodak
- George Eastman
- roll film, 1888
- “you push the button, we do the rest"
- fixed focus, aperture, shutter speed
- $25.00 with 100 pictures
- sent to Kodak: received prints and reloaded camera
- Polaroid
- Edwin Land, 1948
- instant camera
- roll film and then instant “plates”
- Japanese point-and-shoots
- Konica C35 AF (“Japusin”)
- Minolta, Canon, Nikon
- auto focus
- late–1970s
- Digital Photography
- Steve Sasson and Kodak
- December 1975
- first digital camera
- weighed 8 pounds
- 0.01 megapixel resolution
- wrote to cassette tape
- 23 second exposure time
- displayed image on a television monitor
- <http://petapixel.com/2010/08/05/the-worlds-first-digital-came
ra-by-kodak-and-steve-sasson/>
- Photo Fakes and Manipulation
- Millard Tydings and Earl Browder
- John Kerry and Jane Fonda
- National Geographic and Giza Pyramids
- Tourist Guy
- The Situation Room