Chap1 Flashcards
A CHINESE PHILOSOPHER who is mentioned in the first surviving principles behind the pinhole camera or camera obscura, referring to a device as a “COLLECTING PLATE” or “LOCKED TREASURE ROOM”
Mozi “Mo-ti”
A FAMOUS GREEK PHILOSOPHER who invented the first pinhole camera, known later as the CAMERA OBSCURA (meaning Darkened Box). He succeeded in recording the principle that light entering through a small hole produces an inverted image or figure
Aristotle
An ARABIAN SCHOLAR who found that light entering a small hole or shuttered window of a darkened room casts an upside-down picture of the outside scene. He used this in OBSERVING THE SOLAR ECLIPSE by entering a darkroom with a pinhole to avoid harming the eye
Alhazen “Ibn Al-Haytham”
He wrote a book entitled La pratica della perspettiva on perspective for artists and architects, describing how to use a lens with a camera obscura. He introduced the use of the lens in the camera
Daniele Matteo Alvise Barbaro
An English philosopher, mathematician, and physicist who discovered and PROVED THAT THE STRONGEST LIGHT IS WHITE LIGHT. He defined his theory by allowing white light (sunlight) to pass through a PRISM, refracting and diffracting the light into different colors
Sir Isaac Newton
A German scientist who discovered SILVER NITRATE, which turns purple when exposed to light. He later discovered that this reaction was not due to heat but light. He CONCLUDED THAT SILVER NITRATE IS SENSITIVE TO LIGHT and capable of producing images
Johann Heinrich Schulze
An artist and scientist who used the Camera Obscura and REPLACED THE HOLE WITH A LENS, MAKING THE IMAGE BRIGHTER AND SHARPER. He was the first one to replace the hole with a lens
Jean Baptiste Forta
He discovered that SILVER CHLORIDE is more sensitive than silver nitrate and more capable of recording and producing images
Thomas Wedgwood
He was able to obtain camera images on paper sensitized with silver chloride but the exposure faded later. HE INVENTED HELIOGRAPHY, a process that allowed him to record solar pictures
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
HE COINED THE TERM “PHOTOGRAPHIE”
Hercules Florence
He invented the DAGUERREOTYPE, an early photograph produced on a silver-covered copper plate, forming an image directly on the silver surface of a metal plate. This process yielded one-of-a-kind images
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre
He invented CALOTYPE, a process in which prints could be produced from a paper negative. Calotype used paper with surface fibers impregnated with light-sensitive compounds. He also discovered the latent image, the invisible product of short exposure that could be chemically developed
William Henry Fox Talbot
HE COINED THE TERM “PHOTOGRAPHY” and applied the terms “negative” and “positive” to photography. He invented the CYANOTYPE process and is known as the “FATHER OF PHOTOGRAPHY”
John Frederick William Herschel
An American artist and inventor who is responsible for INTRODUCING DAGUERRE’S PHOTOGRAPHY PROCESS TO THE UNITED STATES. Morse returned to the US to spread the news after visiting Daguerre in Paris. (MORSE CODE)
Samuel Finley Breese Morse
He introduced the process of negatives on glass using ALBUMEN AS A BINDING MEDIUM
Abel Niépce de Saint-Victor
