Photography Flashcards
The first camera
Obscura
Niecephore Niepce
French inventor who in 1816 combined the camera obscura with light sensitive paper to create the first permanent image. (Inventor and pioneer of photography)
Earliest surviving photograph:
“View from the window le gras” - Niepce
Louis Daguerre
French dude who, in 1839 created the first announced photo developing process (produced on metallic silver material)
James Maxwell
Scottish Physicist who, in 1861 created the first color projected image (overlayed green, red, and blue)
George Eastman
American Inventor who, in 1880 developed the 1st portable camera (20 yds of development paper)
1892- founded Eastman Kodak Company
Auguste and Louis Lumiere
French brothers who created the 1st autochrome in 1907
Hasselblad
1948- 1st Medium Format SLR Camera
SLR - Single Lens Reflex
A reflex camera in which the lens that forms the image on the film also forms the image on the viewfinder
Steve Sasson
1975- 1st attempted Digital Camera
Digital
1991- Kodak Digital, weighed 5k and cost $22,000
Eadweard Muybridge
English Photographer and inventor, famous for stop motion photos, invented zoopraxiscope (beginning of motion pictures) Answered horse question.
Dorothea Langue
American Documentary Photographer famous for Depression, showed reality, life as it is, not idealized
Ansel Adams
American Environmentalist who took black and white photos of American West - got crazy contrast
Henri Cartier Bresson
Master of Candid Photography - “the decisive moment”
