Ch #2

Question 1

What is a daguerreotype?

Question 2

How did the daguerreotype revolutionize the photographic industry? What is its use?

Question 3

How did the daguerreotype function as a tool for civil rights activists?

Answer 3

It could show slavery and how it made African Americans less than whites and degraded who they were

Question 4

Why was it most commonly practiced with children?

Answer 4

Families whose children passed away, were used mostly in these because they would be still and easy to photograph

Question 5

How were the daguerreotypes frightening to the public?

Answer 5

The photos took so long to be exposed so the person posing in the photo couldn’t be smiling or laughing so it looks creepy

Question 6

Who invented the daguerroetype?

Answer 6

Louis Daguere

Question 7

What key role did Matthew Brady play with the daguerroetype?

Answer 7

Entrepreneurial skills and celebrity played a key role in establishing the daguerreotype portrait as part of the 19th century New York’s visual culture; Opened his first daguerreotype miniature gallery in New York in 1844