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camera obscura

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big room, hole, image reflected upside down

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camera lucida

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Latin, “lighted room.” A device in which a small lens projects the image of an object downward onto a sheet of paper.

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Niépce

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produced first successful permanent photograph, june/july 1826/27

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Niépce photograph

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View From His Window

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how long was view from window exposure

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8 hours

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Daguerre

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daguerreotypes, one of several people who invented photography

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daguerre exposure time

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30 minutes

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daguerre photography

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boulevard du temple, paris

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what is important of boulevard

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first photo with person in it

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what is person doing

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getting a shoe shine

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Fox Talbot

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“first” book to use photographs as illustrations

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Fox Talbot picture

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The Open Door, 1843

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why was lace often photographed

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each town had a unique pattern/look

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The Pencil of Nature

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Fox Talbot’s book

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Herschel

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managed to fix pictures permanently, owe term photography to him

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Cyanotype

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developed by Herschel, Prussian-blue tone

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Collodion Process

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gelatinous base that allows light sensitive chemistry to stick

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Bayard

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direct positive printing

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Bayard picture

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Self-Portrait as a Drowned Man (first selfie)

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Peach Robinson

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pioneer of pictorials photography

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Peach Robinson pictures

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Fading Away
Dawn and Sunset

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what is girl suffering from in Fading Away

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tuberculosis

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Rejlander

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combination printing

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Rejlander pictures

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Two Ways of Life
The Bachelor’s Dream

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Anna Atkins
considered to be first female photographer, actually published first book with photographs as illustrations
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Atkins photo
Cyanotype Photogram of Feathers
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Julia Margret Cameron
portraits of eminent people
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who did Margaret Cameron photograph most
her niece Julia
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Margaret Cameron photos
Julia Jackson Sir John Herschel
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Clementina Hawarden
primary subjects were her daughters
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Hawarden photos
Clementina Maude and Florence Elizabeth (her 2 daughters) Isabella Grace and Florence Elizabeth Maude (her 2 daughters on balcony)
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Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson aka Lewis Carroll
photographed many young girls in the nude
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Dodgson photo
Alice Liddell (inspiration for Alice in Wonderland)
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Nadar (ne Tournachon)
celebrity portrait, first to use artificial light, first to do aerial photography, first to exhibit impressionist art, photographic interview
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Nadar photos
Adrien Tournachon Sarah Bernhardt
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Disderi
carte de visite
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carte de visite
small visiting card portraits
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who made Disderi famous
Prince Napoleon
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who made Disderi famous
Prince Napoleon
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Disderi photo
Prince Napoleon 1860
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Fenton
coverage of Crimean War
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Fenton photo
Valley of the Shadow of Death Vista Furness Abbey
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what is interesting about Valley of the Shadow of Death
a lot of the cannonballs are fake, were added later
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Brady
American Civil War
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Brady photos
Wounded Soliders in Hospital Abraham Lincoln
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what is interesting about wounded soldiers
most died of gangrene
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what is interesting about Abe Lincoln
first photo used in a presidential campaign
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Gardner
hired by Brady, took almost macabre photos of the Civil War
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Gardner photo
Home of Rebel Sharpshooter
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what is interesting about Rebel
body was dragged to photo
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Timothy H O'Sullivan
American Civil War
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O'Sullivan photos
Harvest of Death, Gettysburg PA Desert Sand Hills Near Sink of Carson, NV
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Carleton Watkins
panoramas of Yosemite
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Watkins photo
Coast View Number One
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why is sky overexposed in Coast View
Orthochromatic film
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Edward S. Curtis
photographed Native Americans
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Curtis photos
Bear's Belly Hamasta Emerging from the Woods
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Thomas Eakins
used photography as aid in painting
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Eakins photo
Motion Study (pole vault)
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Eadweard Muybridge
early study of human and animal locomotion, studies and inventions were acknowledged by pioneers of motion pictures
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Muybridge photo
The Horse in Motion Descending Stairs and Turning Around
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Étienne-Jules Marey
devoted to animal photography and mechanics
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Marey photo
Flying Pelican
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Harold Eugene Edgerton
invented strobe light
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Edgerton photo
Milk Drop Coronet Queen of Hearts Playing Card hit by .30 Caliber Bullet
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Jacob A. Riis
muckraker, work on behalf of urban poor, brutal documentation of sweatshops, disease ridden tenements, and overcrowded schools
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Riis photos
Bandits' Roost Hebrew Makes Ready for Sabbath
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Riis book
How The Other Half Lives
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Lewis Wickes Hine
documentation of child labor, affected child labor laws
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Hines photos
Sadie Pfeiffer Breaker Boys Icarus Atop Empire State Building
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Why were Icarus and Daedalus escaping
the minatour
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what island did I and D escape from
Knossos
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Sebastião Salgado
Brazilian social documentary photographer
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Salgado photos
Gourma-Rharous Full View of the Serra Pelada gold mine Firefighters at Work
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what does Salgado mainly photograph
migration
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Alfred Stieglitz
among the first to introduce avant garde art to American public editor of Camera Work first to really photograph in bad weather
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Edward Steichen
has to make living unlike Stieglitz and Strand head of photography for navy during WWII first curator of photos at MoMA Conde Nast celebrity portraits
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Paul Strand
20 yrs younger than Stieg and Steich introduces hard penumbra to photographs new york street portraits
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Gertrude Käsebier
well knwon for work in portraits background in painting said to take photos how a mother would
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Fred Holland Day
influenced by decadent movement labeled as eccentric Boston fam that traced roots back to Mayflower
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Jacques-Henri Lartigue
informal shots of everyday subjects started photography very young
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why are wheels oval in Papa
focal plane shutter
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Andre Kertesz
photos of ordinary life
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Eugene Atget
pioneer in social documentary photography
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Brassai (Gyula Halasz)
responsible for paris becoming city of lights and lovers first photos same time as surrealism
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penumbra
where shadow and highlight meet

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