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- Photography
- 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 photograph
- 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
- Louis Daguerre: Daguerrotype
- 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
- daguerreotype, 1839
- William Fox Talbot: Calotype
- English botanist
- plants
- contact studies against photosensitive surface
- calotype, c. 1839
- silver chloride
- negative exposure
- contact positives
- reproducible photo prints
- slow cameras
- long exposures
- static objects
- faster cameras
- shorter exposures
- action shots
- photograph: sister playing harp
- Wet Collodion Process
- Ambrotype
- printed on paper
- multiple copies from a camera
- Tintype
- Dry Plate Photography
- Magic Lantern Shows
- travel photographs
- colored slides
- audiences would pay to hear about distant locations
- War Photography
- Crimean War
- Indian Mutiny
- US Civil War
- Everyday Life: Street Photography
- John Thomson
- Jacob Riis
- Lewis Hine
- American sociologist and photographer
- documented powerless
- 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
- Photo Fakes and Manipulation
- Millard Tydings and Earl Browder
- John Kerry and Jane Fonda
- National Geographic and Giza Pyramids
- Tourist Guy
- The Situation Room