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Photography Flashcards

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Camera Obscura

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an optical device that projects an image of its surroundings on a screen

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Calotype

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an early photographic process introduced in 1841 by William Henry Talbot, using paper coated with silver iodide.

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Daguerreotype

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The first commercially successful photographic process by Louis Daguerre. The image is a direct positive made in the camera on a silvered copper plate.

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Carte-de-Visite

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A type of small photograph which was patented in Paris, France by photographer André Adolphe Eugène Disdéri in 1854.

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The Pencil of Nature (1844)

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The first photographically illustrated book to be commercially published, by William Talbot.

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Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre: Boulevard du Temple (1838)

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William Talbot: The Open Door (1843)

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Mathew Brady: Abraham Lincoln (1860)

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Timothy O’Sullivan: A Harvest of Death (1863)

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Julia Margaret: Cameron Thomas Carlyle (1867)

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