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Photography in Greek is?
Light Drawing
Light tracing
Light Sketching
What means did people have to remember their loved ones prior to the invention of photography?
creating a silhouette by candle
paintings
mirror
A & B
What problem did making a silhouette have?
made the subject sit still too long
was not permanent - did not last long
size of the silhouette was too large
What did they use to correct the problem they had with creating silhouettes?
a softer pencil lead
device called a physonotrace
gloves to stop smudging
Camera Obscura, what is the definition?
picture box
darkened closet
dark room
Johann Heinrich Schulze's first experiments involved silver and chalk. What happened to the chalk when mixed with silver and placed in light?
turned a dark color where light touched it
turned a light color where light touched it
did nothing - no color are darkness change
Thomas Wedgewood’s contribution to early photography experiments were not successful because image faded to black
TRUE
FALSE
The invention of photography to many experiments by different people to finally arrive at a successful process of creating photographs.
TRUE
FALSE
Does the first photograph create by Joseph Nicephone Niepce still exist?
TRUE
FALSE
Nicephone Niepce used asphalt within his photography process.
TRUE
FALSE
Joseph Nicephore Niepce and Louis Daguerre became partners in their photographic experimentation
TRUE
FALSE
____________________ embraced the Daguerreotype photographs like no other country.
Germans
Americans
French
Asians
The Daguerreotype is...?
Not truly a black and white image
Both positive and negative at the same time
A negative that allows many copies
By 1939, Daguerre had created a photography system said to be, "Perfect!".
TRUE
FALSE
Daguerre gave his rights to his photographic process to....?
France
The World
England
Asia
Only one photographic image could be made from Daguerre's process.
TRUE
FALSE
Sir John Hershel's experiments led him to discover "Cyanotype" photographs.
TRUE
FALSE
Talbot & Daguerre were __________?
friends
rivals
cousins
Anna Atkins did what with Cyanotypes
Used them to record flora and fauna (plants) images
To record animals prints
To create landscape photographs
Cyanotypes are unique in they do not________________?
use mercury like Daguerreotypes
use silver in their process of creation
have a long exposure time.
Cyanoprints weren't used much until the end of the nineteenth century. Then they were used for architects.....?
map making
blueprint plans
art decor images
Cyanotypes were very cheap and consequently used by student photographers while learning and testing.
TRUE
FALSE
Photography was primarily use for what type of photograph?
Landscape
Portrait of People
Animal Photography
Building photography
Fredrick Scott Archer invented what photographic process?
Collodian
Daguerrotype
Albumen
Platinum
Collodian process gave the benefits of....? (Mark all that are appropriate)
Reproduce-ability of a negative positive process
Transparency of glass
Precision and detail of the Daguerreotype
Easier process to create the photographic images.
In the beginning of photography, what type of photography was predominantly used?
sports
portraits
landscape
Prior to photography, only the very wealthy had any notion of what their ancestors looked like.
TRUE
FALSE
Who invented the Wet Plate Collodion photography process?
Francis Scott Archer
Charles Talbot
Louis Deguerre
by 1850's the Wet Plate Collodion process replaces the Daguerre process.
TRUE
FALSE
"Wet Plate" Collodion process required you to photography while the silver nitrate was still wet.
TRUE
FALSE
Photography shaped the way we remember things...
TRUE
FALSE
Prior to photography people remembered things by Ballads, Stories, and Poems... photography changed all that.
TRUE
FALSE
Gellatin Silver process opened "taking pictures" to everyone. No longer required Wet Collodion
TRUE
FALSE
Gelatin Dry Plates revolutionized photography because...?
The chemistry was easier to mix
The dry gelatin plates can be taken with you and developed later.
The dry gelatin plates were easier to develop
"you press the button we do the rest" was a advertisement slogan for what company?
The Eastman Company
Fuji Film Company
Dupont Film
Cibachrome Film
The "Kodak" camera allowed the user to take pictures and then send in the camera to process the photos and then reload the camera
TRUE
FALSE
The advent of the Kodak camera and it's small size people could...? (select all that are true)
Take their cameras with them
Take candid photographs of their lives
Anyone could be a photographer
Silver Gelatin becomes the standard until the advent of Digital photography
TRUE
FALSE
Color photography did not use gelatin silver in it's emulsion
TRUE
FALSE
The year 2004 is....?
The year film was no longer available.
The year digital cameras were introduced
The year film sales started to decline because of the advent of digital cameras.
We make photographs, today, differently than we used to but... we make them for the same reasons.... what is that reason?
to preserve our memories of the ones we care and love
to sell products and goods
because we enjoy taking pictures of things
Steven Sasson was important to digital photography because...?
He invented digital storage device
He invented the digital sensor Fairfield CCD201
He is attributed with inventing the first digital capture camera
View the photo above: What is this a picture of...?
Battery charging device for camera batteries
The first digital camera prototype
A camera conditioning device
Has our relationship to visual memories changed as a result of digital photography?
TRUE
FALSE
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