History of Photography

What does the word "photography" literally mean?

• "light traces"

• "writing with light"

• "images in light"

• "shadow images"

What was the first version of the camera called?

• Camera of ambivalence

• Lightbox

• Brownie

• Camera obscura

What was the camera obscura used for in the Renaissance?

• Tracing outlines of shapes for paintings.

• Michelangelo's home movie theater.

• Viewing faraway galaxies and planets.

• Taking photos on film.

What was so special about silver salts?

• They were used to make camera lenses.

• They were discovered to be a photosensitive material, meaning they would change color when exposed to light.

• They could be melted down into convincing counterfeit coins.

• They are used in digital cameras today as a light meter.

Who took the first photo using a camera obscura, silver salts, and lavender oil?

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• George Eastman

• Thomas Edison

• Joseph Niepce

Who took the first photo of a human?

• Louis Daguerre

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• Joseph Niepce

• Benjamin Franklin

What was so special about the calotype (the photographing process using a negative)?

• It allowed photographers to make multiple prints of the same photo.

• It produced only one image at a time.

• It was a simple one-step process.

• It was much easier, quicker and less expensive than the daguerreotype.

George Eastman and his company Kodak changed the photographic process by inventing what?

• The camera obscura

• The daguerreotype

• Rolls of film so photographers could take multiple photos

• Lavender oil to "fix" an image, making it permanent

Why was the brownie camera important?

• It was affordable, allowing most of the public to have access to photography for the first time;

• It contained the first ever rolls of film.

• It was the first camera created from a chocolate brownie.

• It was expensive and was only affordable to the very wealthy.

How does a camera obscura work?

• Items are placed on top of glass painted with silver salts and put into the sun, taking a temporary "sun picture."

• A small light-tight box is filled with film, allowing photographers to take up to 100 pictures at a time.

• A shutter opens in the camera, allowing light to hit a sensor and capture an image permanently.

• All light is blocked out in a room, except for a small pinhole. Through the pinhole, the image of the outside is projected onto the opposite wall.