Personalities In Photography Flashcards
(46 cards)
Chinese philosopher who is mention in the first surviving principles behind the pinhole camera or camera obscura
Mozi or Mo-ti
Greek philosopher who invented the first pinhole camera
Aristotle
Arabian scholar who found out that light entering a smole hole in the wall cast an upside down picture. He used this in observing the solar eclipse.
Alhazen “Ibn Al-Haytham”
Light entering through a small hole produces an inverted image or figure.
Aristotle
He wrote the book “La Pratica Della Perspettiva”
Daniele Matteo Alvise Barbaro
Who invented Camera Lucida
William Hyde Wollastone
He introduced the use of the lens in the camera
Daniele Matteo Alvise Barbaro
He discovered and proved that the strongest light is white light
Allowing a white light (sunlight) to pass through a prism
Sir Isaac Newton
German Scientist discovered that silver nitrate when he exposed it to the light, it turns purple.
Evening action was not due to heat, but light.
Johann Heinrich Schulze
Artist and scientist who in his Psuedo Science Magic.
Replace the hole with lens.
Jean Baptiste Forta
He was the one who introduced the lens.
Jean Baptiste Forta
He discovered that silver chloride is more sensitive than silver nitrate
Thomas Wedgwood
He invented a photographic process which he called HELIOGRAPHY meaning the “writing of the sun.”
Joseph Nicèphore Nièpce
He coined the term photographie.
Hercules Florence
He invented DAGUERROTYPE, an early photograph produce on a silver or silver-covered copper plate.
Louis-Jacques-Daguerre
He made Mouse trap cameras.
He also discover the Latent Image
William Henry Fox Talbot
He invented a process called CALOTYPE, a photographic process by which a large number of prints could be produce from a paper negative.
William Henry Fox Talbot
He coined the term Photography.
Father of photography.
John Frederick William Herschel
He invented CYANOTYPE, process using Ferric ammonium Citrate and Potassium Ferricyanide.
John Frederick William Herschel
He is the reason why Photography arrived in the United States.
He invented MORSE CODE
Samuel Finley Breese Morse
He introduce a process of negatives on glass using albumen as a binding medium
Abel Nièpce de Saint-Victor
He introduced a printing paper coated with albumen to achieve a glossy surface. Albumen print is also called albumen silver print
Albumen is found in EGG WHITES.
Louis Dèsirè Blanquart Evrard
A Scottish Scientist who developed stereoscopic photography
Sir David Brewster
He invented the photographic COLLODION process
Frederick Scott Archer
