Chapter 1 Flashcards
A Chinese Philosopher who is mention in the first surviving principles behind the pinhole camera or camera obscura.
Mozi “Mo-ti”
He was the one who succeeded in recording the principle that light entering through a small hole produces an inverted image or figure
Aristotle
He used the pinhole camera or camera obscura to observe the solar eclipse entering a darkroom to avoid harming the eye
Alhazen Ibn Al Haytham
He introduced the use of the lens in the camera
Daniele Matteo Alvise Barbaro
He defended his theory by allowing a white light to pass through a prism thus refracting and diffracting the light onto different colors
Sir Isaac Newton
He discovered the Silver Nitrate that is sensitive to light and capable to produce images
Johann Heinrich Schulze
He made use of the Camera Obscura and replaced the hole with a lens which made the image brighter and sharper.
Jean Baptiste Forta
He discovered that Silver Chloride is more sensitive than silver nitrate
Thomas Wedgwood
He invented a photographic process which he called heliography
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
He coined the term photographie
Hercules Florence
He invented Daguerreotype, an early photograph produced on a silver or silver covered copper plate
Louis Jacques Daguerre
He succeeded in contact printings made in his miniature cameras (mouse trap cameras) a process called Calotype
William Henry Fox Talbot
He made improvements in photographic processes, particularly inventing the Cyanotype. He is also considered as Father of Photography
John Frederick William Herschel
He is the reason why Photography arrived in the US to spread the news
Samuel Finley Breese Morse
He introduced a process of negatives on glass using albumen as a binding medium
Abel Niepce De Saint Vector
He introduced a printing paper coated with albumen to achieve a glossy surface
Louis Desire Blanquart Evrard
The one who developed stereoscopic photography
Sir David Brewster
He invented the photographic collodion process which preceded the modern gelatin emulsion
Frederick Scott Archer
He popularized the small cheap portrait
Andre Adolphe Eugene Disderi
He first constructed an enlarger became model for a number of cameras
David A. Woodward
He took the first aerial photograph of Paris from a free balloon 1858
Gaspard Felix Tournachon AKA Nadar
He is considered as Father of Photojournalism
Mathew B. Brady
He produced the earliest color photograph, and credited as the founder of the theory of additive color
James Clerk Maxwell
He made an apparatus for enlarging by electric light and showed it to the Paris Photographic Society in 1861
Louis Jules Duboscq
